Top Chef Tony Bilson from Bilson's visits Palate Sensations

Luckily our studio is fairly quiet this week so I am able to host Tony Bilson for 3 days this week at Palate Sensations. Tony is here visiting for 1 week as he is the Consulting Chef for Prive, the new restaurant soon to be opened by Michel Lu and Yuan Oeij at Keppel Island. In short, I am very honored to host such a great chef.

For those of you who don't know Tony, here is some information I lifted from www.bestrestaurants.com.au:



Regarded as the Godfather of Australian cuisine, revered chef Tony Bilson has been educating and delighting palates for over three decades. His restaurants have been milestones in the advance of Australian gastronomy and he has dedicated his life to the pursuit of excellence. Tony’s influence on cooking is profound. With his encyclopaedic knowledge of cooking techniques, his restaurants have been bastions of cooking styles that have shaped trends in Australia and overseas. Many of the country’s leading chefs are among his protégés.

Tony’s celebrated career began in Melbourne at the end of the 1960s. Bilsons restaurant, opened in June 2003 and aptly named Bilson’s, is in the five star Radisson Plaza Hotel Sydney and continues in the tradition of his past restaurants – celebrating local and seasonal produce with an emphasis on French flavours and cooking techniques, coupled with a wonderful collection of Australian and French wines. Tony has always paid tribute to the classics of French cuisine while continually reinventing them and placing them in a contemporary Australian context. Bilson’s has been awarded 17/20 by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Simon Thomsen and recieved it's 3rd Chefs Hat catapulting Bilson's into the Top Ten Restaurants in Australia.

Now I must try to convince him to teach some classes the next time he is back in Singapore!

Lynette