In April 2019, as the renovation dust settled, SMC's kitchens roared back to life under new leadership — a head chef with twenty years across leading restaurants, hotels and venues in South Africa and Australia, and an AHA NSW Chef of the Year finalist.
"From an early age, I knew I wanted to work with food," he recalled — a family hotel background, a pastry-chef sister, and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential for inspiration.
That standard — menus designed and executed in-house, never trucked in — remains the backbone of SMC catering: conference packages, plated galas, canapés and the wellness range, all cooked in the building.
