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The two-hatted Pilot is popping up successful the prima Brisbane eatery for a nine-course degustation with paired drinks. But you’ll request to beryllium speedy to nab a booking.
One of Canberra’s precise champion restaurants, Pilot, is popping up successful Brisbane adjacent month.
For 2 nights only, 2 of its co-owners, Mal Hanslow and Dash Rumble, on with a subordinate of Hanslow’s cook brigade, volition beryllium successful the room with Tim Scott astatine Exhibition successful Brisbane’s CBD, serving a peculiar nine-course degustation menu.
It’s a full-circle infinitesimal for Hanslow and Scott, who antecedently worked unneurotic nether Clayton Wells astatine Sydney’s award-winning Automata.
“It was ever connected the cards. Even erstwhile I was backmost astatine [Fortitude Valley restaurant] Joy, we were talking astir it,” Scott says. “Mal and I were some cook de partie astatine Automata, moving broadside by side. Mal had already been a caput cook and earned himself a chapeau successful Canberra, but demoted himself and went backmost connected a learning path, basically.
“It was a beauteous honourable move. He would’ve had to instrumentality a wage cut, unrecorded determination much expensive, commencement deferring to radical and person little freedom. But that’s the prime of cook helium is.”
Pilot opened successful 2018 and instantly won plaudits for its restrained but ambitious attack to dining. It collected 2 hats successful the 2024 Sydney Good Food Guide and is regarded arsenic a linchpin of Canberra’s eating scene. Scott has besides achieved acclaim, archetypal with Joy successful 2018, which helium opened with Sarah Baldwin (who is present sole proprietor of that restaurant), and much precocious with Exhibition, which helium opened successful 2022; some are among Brisbane’s best.
“[Mal and I] person some got a similar, small-town mindset. We some grew up astir skate parks,” Scott says. “We some emotion being portion of a large team. He’s precise casual to enactment alongside and we some person that aforesaid consciousness of attraction with our cooking.”
The paper for the 2 nights is inactive to beryllium finalised, but Scott says to expect much of a absorption connected main plates than is accustomed astatine Exhibition.
“I deliberation we’re gonna bash 4 main courses, 2 dessert courses and past a mates of rounds of snacks,” helium says. “One of the things they ever bash [at Pilot] is simply a crockery with their mains, which is beauteous cool. There whitethorn beryllium a mates of pastry options, but we’ll spot however overmuch nutrient is successful the paper earlier we marque that call.
“Mal’s flavours person ever been described arsenic airy and umami,” Scott says. “I’ve typically been described arsenic having a Japanese power but implicit clip I’m leaning into much Southeast Asian flavours. Mal volition bring much of a subcontinental influence. But it’s each going to beryllium based connected the nutrient disposable astatine the time.”
For drinks, Rumble volition beryllium joining the Exhibition front-of-house squad to usher diners done some alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks pairings, with Exhibition’s afloat drinks database besides available.
“Dash has large vigor and a truly chill beingness connected the floor,” Scott says. “It volition beryllium a bully addition. It’s not conscionable the nutrient of Pilot but the vibe of that edifice arsenic well.”
Pilot volition popular up astatine Exhibition May 14-15. Bookings are disposable via Exhibition’s website.
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