Folks will surely savor their palate till Laura Sharrad inaugurates her second restaurant in Adelaide. Before a week to ‘MasterChef Australia’s Back To Win’ finale, she shared the wonderful news of opening an Italian eatery as an expansion of the Nido brand. She revealed the details to Adelaide Advertiser.
‘It’s very very exciting; I guess its baby number two before an actual baby comes along,’
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As the first restaurant which she owns with chef husband, Max is ‘regularly booked out’; the spouse plans to launch the second one. They always wanted to sort out their investment in similar but in a different spectrum. The idea of the second restaurant, i.e., an expansion of the Nido brand which opened in April 2019, is a bright side of their opportunity they have ever longed of.
“It’s one of those things that if the opportunity did arise, we’d definitely want to do it again and do something similar but a little bit different, ‘[In order to] kind of make it a little bit more niche.”
Following the MasterChef 2014, she accumulated kitchen experience while working as a pastry chef at Jack Zonfrillo’s restaurant. Again, she dedicated her years to the Italian restaurant, Andre’s Cucina, in Adelaide. As a pastry chef at Jack Zonfrillo’s restaurant, she met the love of her life, Max, who was a junior sous Chef there from 2014 to 2016. After two years of dating, Max popped up questions to Laura in Italy in 2017.
Laura reminisced the moment of Italy:
“As soon as he pulled out the little box, I just started crying and blubbering…I cried the whole time. It was simply beautiful, just perfect”
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At 19, Laura Sharrad became runner-up in season six of MasterChef, losing her top-notch title to Brent Owens. Today, she still secures her spot among top contestants in MasterChef 2020. Above all, she knows to stir the palate and much influenced by her cousin, David, who was “passionate about life”; she doesn’t yearn to lose the winning title and $250,000 prize money this season.
Not long ago, she had an emotional breakdown when she cooked lamb for six guest chef judges at MasterChef. Laura spoke her heart out that she can’t endure negativity; otherwise, it will break her down amidst the competition. While she looked undisturbed outside, Laura opened up, saying she wasn’t able to contain pressure during the challenge.
‘On the outside, I look really calm. But I am, like, inside, so scared. Like, the thought of going home on something… like, a dish like this,”
She carried on briefing her dish:
[My dish] is so simple in its nature, I think it would defeat me and I won’t have my goal to, you know, do one better, and to make the finale and to win.’
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Then, she enounced her thoughts that she is into both-winning the title and proving more than that. At the same time, she garnered praises from the chef judges while tasting her ‘Childish dish’ composed of peas, mint, and lamb-likewise ones have it like a Sunday roast. First, the judge, Melissa Leong, admired how the sophisticated and straightforward lamb dish was pleasant at sight. Even guest judge Matt Stone carved to try her simple recipe again. He loved having perfectly textured lamb alongside the crunchy, sour, salty herbs.
It led her to enter the finals in the end.
Best of luck, Laura!
