COUNTRY PLACE RETREAT
Conferences | Functions | Leisure | Yarra Valley | The Dandenongs | Melbourne | Victoria

Country Place Retreat - Conference, Function, Leisure | Yarra Valley and the Dandenongs
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Meet our chefs at Country Place

Meet our chefs at Country Place

Janine Harris

  • Cooking for 22 years
  • Worked at Grand Hyatt Hotel Melbourne
  • Won the Daryl Cox Apprentice Award
  • Executive Chef at Country Place and Flowerdale Estate
  • IACC Copper Skillet Award - competed in both Australia and US
  • Won Silver in Melbourne Culinary Challenge Team Competition
  • Gold in Yarra Valley & Ranges Salon Culinaire, Brigade of the Year

Estelle Kenny

  • Cooking for 28 years
  • Worked at RACV Club's in both Melbourne and Healesville, also at Leonda Restaurant and Kyarra Retreat
  • Won Silver in Melbourne Culinary Challenge Team Competition
  • Gold in Yarra Valley & Ranges Salon Culinaire, Brigade of the Year

Simone Quinn

  • Cooking for 26 years
  • Worked as Head Chef Stephanie's Restaurant Melbourne, Chef de Partie, Lynch's Restaurant Melbourne, guest chef at the Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumper, Malaysia and the Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong
  • Recipé Testing Chef for the book 'Stephanie's Australia' by Stephanie Alexander

Hayley Jones

  • Completed Apprenticeship at Country Place in 2007. Employee of the year twice
  • Won Swinburne Tafe, Apprentice of the Year
  • Won Gold in Victorian Culinary Challenge in for two consecutive years
  • IACC Chairman's Award for Excellence