Cooks night out

It's always intriguing to see who eats where when the world's top chefs come to town for Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. Here's a rundown. Bertrand Grebaut, chef-owner of hot Parisian restaurant Septime, enjoyed Coda, Brooks, Huxtaburger, Attica, Golden Fields and MoVida. Former pro-skateboarder Virgilio Martinez from Peru visited Vietnamese restaurants on Victoria Street three times as well as dining at Pei Modern, Dainty Sichuan and Attica; and Kiwi chef Annabel Langbein enjoyed Longrain, Coda and Attica. Sean Brock, of Husk restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, went to Collingwood's Rockwell and Sons for an impromptu festival afterparty. Rockwell chef and co-owner Casey Wall cooked some burgers and biscuits and gravy for everyone until about 4am, when Brock's crew had to get to the airport for their flight back to the States. The two chefs met through the festival in Melbourne but discovered they grew up about an hour away from each other in the US - Brock in Virginia and Wall in North Carolina.

Hilary McNevin