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Shane Delia to open Collingwood kebab shop Biggie Smalls

Roslyn Grundy
Roslyn Grundy

Chef Shane Delia.
Chef Shane Delia.Jesse Marlow

Shane Delia spent the first few months of the year renovating his CBD fine diner, Maha. Now he's planning an assault on other end of the dining spectrum, a new-style kebab joint in Collingwood called Biggie Smalls.

He's off for a New York City recce this week before renovations begin on the 1875 building, currently housing Pop Up Scroll, which is in the final stage of negotiating the lease on another shop on Smith Street and is looking to move in August.

The 30- to 40-seater will take inspiration from '90s hip-hop, and the name from the late American rapper Biggie Smalls. But the food will depart from the usual kebab shop menu with things like pulled lamb shoulder, smoked hummus and sweet harissa jam in puffy Turkish bread rather than pita.

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"I'm not going to change the planet," says Delia. "I'm just going to be doing really bloody tasty kebabs that are a bit different, and cold beer in tins."

Delia hopes to open Biggie Smalls at 86 Smith Street, Collingwood, in December.

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Roslyn GrundyRoslyn Grundy is Good Food's deputy editor and the former editor of The Age Good Food Guide.

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