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Cooking by emergency candlelight at Grazing

Natasha Rudra

Keeping a cool head: Grazing's chef Kurt Neumann.
Keeping a cool head: Grazing's chef Kurt Neumann.Jeffrey Chan

It has to be a chef's worst nightmare – a restaurant packed with diners, many celebrating a wedding, on a Saturday night plunged into darkness as the power cuts out.

That's exactly what happened to Kurt Neumann and his team at Grazing in Gundaroo on the weekend.

An electrical storm apparently knocked out power to the Gundaroo area for about two hours with 140 guests in the building. There was no exhaust, no lights, no oven and no running water for the toilets or the kitchen.

Neumann and the Grazing staff had to get the water pump running before continuing to cook and serve up dishes by candle light, which they did with some aplomb. Nice work.

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Default avatarNatasha Rudra is an online editor at The Australian Financial Review based in London. She was the life and entertainment editor at The Canberra Times.

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