Guillaume Zika Makes Page 3 of The Sydney Morning Herald!

When Sydney Morning Herald journalist Esther Han and photographer Marco Del Grande honoured us with a visit recently, we were excited to see what one of the city's most respected news publications would say about the happenings at our Public Dining Room. 

So when the weekend rolled around, imagine our delight when we opened up to page 3 of the Saturday Edition to find our very own Guillaume showing off his yellow spotted socks on the wharf out front! If you missed it, have a read below:

Guest chef finds new fish to fry at the end of the jetty

By Esther Han 

Beached: Guillaume Zika is the international guest chef at Public Dining Room at Balmoral Beach. Photo: Marco Del Grande

Having worked as the head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant, Guillaume Zika thought he knew his fish. That was until he reached the end of a jetty at Balmoral Beach.

''I saw this big sign with all this fish I had never seen before. I only knew, like, two. The flathead has a crazy head,'' the Frenchman said with a laugh. ''I caught one and thought that's a fish I'm not going to eat. But I liked it.''

Zika moved to Sydney in June after an 18-month stint as head chef of Hibiscus, Claude Bosi's two Michelin-starred restaurant in London. He is the international guest chef at Public Dining Room at Balmoral Beach until December.

While he has yet to be won over by the ''mushy and strangely textured'' barramundi, he is savouring the best of… 

Read more here:

http://www.smh.com.au/good-food/eat-out/guest-chef-finds-new-fish-to-fry-at-the-end-of-the-jetty-20130913-2tq8z.html#ixzz2iz4rvWey