Eyal Shani has brought his Israeli pita haven to Melbourne via Paris and Vienna. We sit down with the celebrity chef to find out what’s in store for the sixth instalment of his cult pita shop.
“I want the young people, I want the happiness, I want the street,” says chef Eyal Shani in a thick Israeli accent.
The 58-year-old restaurant mogul and MasterChef Israel host, who has a short beard and wavy salt and pepper hair, is in Melbourne overseeing the opening of his sixth pita-focused Israeli street-food eatery, Miznon (meaning “kiosk” in Hebrew), which opens today on Hardware Lane.
Almost everyone in the kitchen at Miznon is yelling at each other in Hebrew. And Shani is the loudest. Interviewing him is like trying to talk to a footballer during a game – he’s intensely focused but equally unpredictable.
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