Episodes

  • The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021

    The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021
    Dec 21 2021
    Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Live at Wellington On a Plate, on the future of hospitality

    Live at Wellington On a Plate, on the future of hospitality
    Aug 30 2021
    In part two of Dietary Requirements’ live special recorded at Parrotdog brewery as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Simon Day and Sophie Gilmour are joined by Kelda Hains (Rita) and Dominique McMillan (Floriditas) for a discussion about the future of restaurants and the hospitality industry. Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Live at Wellington On a Plate, with Parrotdog’s three Matts

    Live at Wellington On a Plate, with Parrotdog’s three Matts
    Aug 23 2021
    Recorded live at Parrotdog in Lyall Bay as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Dietary Requirements meets the brewery’s three founding Matts (Kristofski, Warner and Stevens) for a chat about their decade-long journey in the craft beer business. Read more: Alice Neville charts the journey of Parrotdog. Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 mins
  • Cooking a flounder with Kingi’s Tom Hishon

    Cooking a flounder with Kingi’s Tom Hishon
    Aug 9 2021
    The pod breaks out of the studio for a field trip to Kingi at Auckland’s Hotel Britomart, and a very special cooking lesson from chef Tom Hishon. He gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the seafood-focused restaurant and teaches us how to cook the delicious flounder of our dreams. Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Filipino flavours with Bar Magda’s Carlo Buenaventura

    Filipino flavours with Bar Magda’s Carlo Buenaventura
    Jul 26 2021
    Carlo Buenaventura is an evergreen Auckland hospitality personality who’s worked both in kitchens and front of house at a range of fantastic spots since moving to New Zealand from the Philippines in 2010. His latest venture is Bar Magda on Cross Street in the central city, where he’s back on the tools in the kitchen. He joined Dietary Requirements to talk about why it’s so important to work on both sides of a restaurant, Bar Magda’s Filipino flavours and what he’s getting up to with Cinderella at this year’s Visa Wellington on a Plate. Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Our favourite food cities

    Our favourite food cities
    Jul 12 2021
    In this episode we're talking about food cities – what makes a great food city, and what are some of our personal favourites around the world? Is Simon right to put Wellington up there among the best international food cities, and how does Auckland rank? Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at Wellington On a Plate 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 mins
  • Serving up Wellington On a Plate

    Serving up Wellington On a Plate
    Jul 2 2021
    Next month, Visa Wellington On a Plate is taking over the capital's hospitality industry with a vast menu of events, burgers and cocktails. In this episode, WOAP programme director Beth Brash joins the Dietary Requirements team to talk about how the festival adapted to Covid-19, the amazing events on this year's programme, and her new life trapped in Tasmania. Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • NZ's hospitality staffing crisis

    NZ's hospitality staffing crisis
    Jun 14 2021
    Last week the Restaurant Association launched a campaign to draw attention to the major skills and labour shortage the hospitality sector is experiencing as a result of Covid-19 and the subsequent border closure. This episode’s guest Chand Sahrawat runs three of Auckland’s most highly-rated restaurants – Sidart, Cassia and The French Cafe by Sid – and has first-hand experience of the kind of pressures hospitality owners and their staff are under.  This episode of Dietary Requirements is brought to you by Visa Wellington on a Plate. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com Read Chand’s open letter to Jacinda Ardern here: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins