"I'd like to do something off the beach," he said, adding that the celebrity-chef circuit felt saturated.
Baroo has so far been a wildly successful experiment, a recent addition to the chef and culinary professional circuit.
Rows of orderly white machines, tended by workers wearing what looked like chef's hats, were moving circuit boards through the assembly line.
The city is either lauded as the rising star on the international fine dining circuit thanks to Chef's Hat triumphs like Tetsuya's, Quay and Marque, or it's roped into the oversimplified yet vague idea of "Aussie fare" that is Vegemite and "shrimps on the bah-bie".
The awards — and the pre-parties and after parties that surrounded them, like inaugural balls — were an early stop on the symposium circuit to which modern chefs devote so much effort.
Chef Mysee stays busy in the competition circuit: "In one short year we have been Reserve Grand Champions three times, Grand Champions once and are currently ranked 29th among KCBS teams nationally (out of more than 3000 teams).
By the time Chris Muller called on me to reinforce the entree line during the second dinner seating, I had covered a kitchen circuit that typically takes an aspiring sous-chef two years to complete.
As service slows down, Lowe comes out to do a circuit of a room full of big-name chefs and famous critics.
She could, for instance, take one of the White House chefs on the road, working the morning and talk show circuit as the president and his staff do.
The rubber chicken circuit feels risibly outmoded in this foodie age, and who wouldn't view the chance to sit at chef Cameron's table as cause to buy a Euromillions lottery rollover ticket?
On the road, traveling the charity circuit, Mr. Palladin seemed to be at the center of every party, staying up later than anybody, the rebel chef as rock 'n' roller.
