Bill Granger Trailblazer Award: Baba’s Place
A new award, in partnership with Bill Granger’s family, and named in honour of Bill’s hospitality, warmth, integrity and entrepreneurial spirit.
Marrickville
The Trailblazer Award is given to a person, team or business approaching things from their own perspective and in doing so, pushing Australian food forward. The winner should have a unique point of view and embody hospitality in its truest sense, with a focus on community above all.
It’s for these reasons (and many more), that the inaugural winner is Baba’s Place, a freewheeling celebration of the suburban Sydney experience grounded in the stories of immigrant families and their shared experiences of food and cooking.
Like bills embodied a particular sense of Australia, Baba’s Place does the same, proudly drawing on the Lebanese, Macedonian and Greek heritages of co-owners Alex Kelly, Jean-Paul El Tom and James Bellos for the decor and the dishes, and reclaiming the narrative around what Australian cooking is and can be. A path laid down for all of us to follow.
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