Cooking

Features recipes, photographs and stories of Andrew Blake's 33 years as a chef. It features the highs and lows, trials and tribulations, laughs and pains of being a chef and restauranteur. Includes Andrew's restaurant classics and signature dishes.

Andrew Blake is one of Melbourne's favourite chefs. Over the past 30 years, Andrew's expertise and creative abilities have earned him high praise and many industry awards, including a lifetime achievement award from The Age Good Food Guide. Andrew's primary experience is in running successful restaurants, including his restaurant Blake's at Southgate throughout the 1990s. Andrew transferred his focus to catering in response to a strong demand for restaurant-quality food in any environment; which proves challenging at times, but extremely satisfying.