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The Executive Chef of ever popular EUROPEAN Group venues, Ian Curley is a very busy Chef. With four venues, three kitchens and a team of over 30 staff, plus an ever expanding public role, Ian is a Chef very much in demand.

Ian departed The Point, Albert Park in September 2006 to take the top job controlling the kitchens of the EUROPEAN, City Wine Shop, Melbourne Supper Club and then the newly built, Siglo.

A talented chef, Ian has become renowned for his creative, delicious meat dishes that utilise the whole beast, created with only the best quality produce available in the country, and increasingly for his media presence and experience within the Melbourne food scene.

Ian Curley was born is Coventry, England in 1964. He attended the Hendley College of Catering Studies and Further Education before moving to London to begin training as a chef. One of his first positions in a kitchen was as Chef de Partie and First Commis Chef at the Hyatt Carlton Towers Hotel in London. He spent several years training in England, including stints at Sutherlands Restaurant in Soho, before moving to Australia in 1988. Ian’s love of a challenge and his desire to work in the Australian restaurant industry provided the catalyst for his move.

Ian is considered one of Australia’s first class chefs, having worked as Head Chef in a number of Melbourne’s top restaurants. He is frequently quoted by the Age, The Australian and the Sun newspapers on all matters culinary, and radio listeners would be familiar with him from his guest appearances on radio 3RRR.

Ian’s most recent public foray was appearing as a guest chef on Channel 10’s Masterchef program, and on the morning show The Circle.

Ian will become even more popular and well known in the public sphere when Channel 7’s new reality TV show, Conviction Kitchen goes to air with Ian being the Chef whose job it is to teach some life skills to recent inmates. All this plus being the Executive Chef for the Spring Street businesses that he has made award-winning.