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Highlights from the inaugural WAW Gathering in Melbourne.

Le Chateaubriand‘s Iñaki Aizpitarte and team planning their WAW Gives dish in the Melbourne Star Observation Wheel.

Photography: Colin Page

WAW founder and Attica chef Ben Shewry walking Berta‘s O Tama Carey and Biota‘s James Viles through Rippon Lea Estate.

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Nahm‘s David Thompson takes the stage.

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Iñaki Aizpitarte with journalist and culinary impresario Andrea Petrini.

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Peter Gilmore of Quay.

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Roy Choi of Los Angeles food-truck empire Kogi.

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Ben Devlin of Esquire, Jeremy Strode of Bistrode CBD and Scott Huggins of Magill Estate.

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Ceramic artist Kris Coad.

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Ah spring spring / how great is spring! / and so on: a dish of Dutch cream potatoes, baby turnips and spring garlic in kapenta broth by Nahm‘s David Thompson, Berta‘s O Tama Carey, Huxtable‘s Daniel Wilson and Bistro Dom‘s Duncan Welgemoed.

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Omar Coles of Helping Hoops.

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“Sober crab”, from Ben Greeno of Momofuku Seiobo, Daniel Patterson of San Francisco restaurant Coi, Finnish journalist Kenneth Nars and Lyon-based writer Andrea Petrini.

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Ovata House takeover at Darling Point's Gatsby House

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René Redzepi and his staff at Noma, a still taken from his TV show Ominivore

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Beef rendang mini meat pie with flaky folden pastry and filling spilling out of biten pastry

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VG + LH cocktail from Bar Americano‘s Matt Bax.

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Maggie Beer

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After-party antics at Attica.

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