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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
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