Alumni

Celebrating moments from the past 58 years.

2024 Winner

Archer Houghton

2024 Winning Entrée

Mushroom and tofu custard with picked vegetables and beetroot gazpacho. (Archer Houghton)

2024 Winning Main

Seared rostbiff with a cottage pie, roasted carrot, wilted greens and black pepper sauce. (Archer Houghton)

2024 Winning Dessert

Strawberry and pink peppercorn mousse with a macadamia and coconut crumble, fresh berry salad and basil foam. (Archer Houghton)

2024 Best Savoury Dish

Creamy pea mousse with fresh peas, citrus gel, smoked ricotta and chilli macadamia. (Anshul Gurung)

2024 Best Dessert Dish

Pumpkin entremet, brown sugar crumble, candied pumpkin, berry and pumpkin gels. (Deb Ridley)

2024 Most Creative Use of a Nestlé Product

Bitter dark chocolate cremeux, raspberry gel and dark chocolate soil. (Emily Morgan)

2024 Grand Finalists

2023 Winner

Jimmy Han

2023 Winning Entrée & Best Savoury Dish

Torched corn salad with nashi pear, baby spinach and Greek Yoghurt. (Jimmy Han)

2023 Winning Main & Best Savoury Dish

Murray Cod with chorizo, fennel wakame salad, sweet potato puree and tom yum butter sauce. (Jimmy Han)

2023 Winning Dessert & Best Dessert Dish

Vanilla black pepper bavarois. Sable lemon gel, white chocolate soil with shaved macadamia and raspberry jelly. (Jimmy Han)

2023 Most Creative Use of a Nestlé Product

Braised leek and wakame mosaic, onion and BUONDI coffee broth, sweet and sour eschalots with a macadamia nut cream. (Ashleigh Handsaker)

2023 Grand Finalists

2022 Winner

Gabby Sanders

2022 Winning Entrée

Leek, potato and smoked beurre blanc sauce.

2022 Winning Main

Glazed pork, caramelised soy dumpling and Asian pork jus.

2022 Winning Dessert

Chai spiced cake, with caramel, coffee, walnut, pear, and white chocolate.

2022 Grand Finalists

Kimberly Tang

Read more about Kimberly's journey after being crowned the 2021 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

2021 Winning Entrée

Mushroom Ravioli: Onion and horseradish jelly, mushroom and black garlic Parcel, asparagus, pickled foraged mushrooms, yuzu gel, black garlic tuile, and ponzu emulsion

2021 Winning Main

Hainanese Chicken: Hainanese style chicken with black garlic emulsion, mushroom pearl barley, crispy chicken skin, negi oil, baby onions, shitake, and smoked charcoal pepper dust

2021 Winning Dessert

Peaches & Strawberries Cream Zen Garden: Mascarpone Cremeux, black garlic and chocolate soil, matcha sponge, mushroom meringue, coconut lotus cookie, umeboshi compressed white peaches, strawberries, grapes, and yuzu gel

2021 Winner

Kimberly Tang

2021 Grand Finalists

Eve Sheraton

Read more about Eve's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2018 & 2020 Nestlé Golden Chef Awards in the Hall of Fame

Maverick Cuthbert

Read more about Maverick's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2019 & 2020 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

2020 Winning Entrée

Salt Baked Onions, Mushroom, Fennel and Fermented Rice purée, Juniper

2020 Winning Main

Reconstructed Chicken and Butternut Tart

2020 Winning Dessert

Chocolate, Sour Pear Mousse, Umami Caramel and CHEF Black Garlic Paste

2020 Winner

Sam Heaven

2020 Grand Finalists

2019 Winning Entrée

“Tartare” of charred zucchini and roasted mushrooms, with smoked eggplant, lemon sour cream, and a salad of shaved fennel and zucchini

2019 Winning Main

Roasted lamb loin with a lamb and potato croquette, green pea and miso purée, peas dressed in a mint and caper salsa verde, a salad of pea shoots and red amaranth, and a smoked lamb jus

2019 Winning Dessert

Roasted and glazed pears with a crème fraiche and citrus parfait, toasted olive oil cake, burnt pear and brown butter emulsion, and an infusion of bitter citrus, fennel and olive oil

2019 Winner

Giles Gabutina & Alessio Nogaratto

2019 Grand Finalists

2018 Winning Entrée

Chive and Scallop Boudin centred with Salmon and Prawn, Coconut, lime, Cucumber, Radishes

2018 Winning Main

Australian beef with mushroom crusted porterhouse and Korean BBQ oxtail with orange and maple carrot, pea tart and scented sauce

2018 Winning Dessert

Variations of Rhubarb, Chocolate, Honey, Crème Fraiche and Almond

2018 Winner

Matt Wills & Billy Fox

2018 Grand Finalists

Tom Hitchcock

Read more about Tom's journey after competing in the 2017 & 2018 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

Ben Richards

Read more about Ben's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2017 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

Ashleigh Otto

Read more about Ash's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2017 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

Praveen Rodrigo

Read more about Praveen's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2017 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

2017 Winning Entrée

Roasted Cauliflower, poached trout, crisp kale, lemon beure blanc

2017 Winning Main

Sous vide spiced lamb, roasted eggplant, char pencil leeks with kipfler’s accompanied by a port glaze

2017 Winning Dessert

Apple and rhubarb mousse, salted crumb with grapefruit curd and poached thyme pear

2017 Winner

Mahlet Girma & Abbey Wendland

2017 Grand Finalists

Adelene Stahnke

Read more about Adelene's journey after placing as a national finalist in the 2015 & 2016 Nestlé Golden Chef of the Year in the Hall of Fame

2016 Winner

Mahlet Girma & Abbey Wendland

2016 Grand Finalists

2015 Winning Entrée

Rolled quail breast stuffed with spinach and mushroom, wrapped in prosciutto. Vanilla and carrot puree, roasted cauliflower florets, buerre noisette sautéed pencil leeks, baby turnips, date and raisin jam and spiced quail lollipop

2015 Winning Main

Lamb tenderloin Rossini: Braised, pulled and glazed lamb shank, smashed sweet potato, onion soubise, baby radish, asparagus spears, blackened onion hearts and port wine jus

2015 Winning Dessert

Glazed Nestlé dark chocolate, caramel and port lava mousse, pistachio semifreddo, raspberry popping pearls, saffron macaron filled with Nestlé Docello French vanilla mousse, pistachio crumble and port wine gel