1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,880
Speaker 1: Well, I love hearing about Territorians doing great things, particularly

2
00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,400
Speaker 1: when you look at the national stage and well, these

3
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,520
Speaker 1: are a great territory and a great young woman who

4
00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,280
Speaker 1: has been recognized on the national stage when it comes

5
00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,840
Speaker 1: to hospitality, and not just her but two of the

6
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,599
Speaker 1: venues that she owns and operates. Her name is Analise

7
00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,239
Speaker 1: Grazioli and she joins me on the line right now.

8
00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,120
Speaker 1: Good morning to.

9
00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:29,120
Speaker 2: You, Analise. Hi, I'm great. How are you going? You're

10
00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,160
Speaker 2: always busy?

11
00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:32,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit.

12
00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,720
Speaker 2: Now you are kicking goals. There's no other way to

13
00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:37,120
Speaker 2: put it.

14
00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,040
Speaker 1: I know that over the last couple of months you've

15
00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 1: been well both of your bars. So two of our

16
00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,479
Speaker 1: newest sort of cocktail bars have been well named or crowned.

17
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,440
Speaker 1: I guess Australian. You've been crowned Australian Bar Operator of

18
00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,080
Speaker 1: the Year for twenty twenty four after opening both Hanky

19
00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,640
Speaker 1: Panky Lounge and also Bar Kokemo.

20
00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,200
Speaker 2: How is it all going, Anile.

21
00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,960
Speaker 3: It's been a lot of fun and a great learning curve.

22
00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,200
Speaker 3: Like obviously you're going to a bit of tough time

23
00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,679
Speaker 3: in most industries, but hospitality is not exempt from that.

24
00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,680
Speaker 3: With the cost of living. So it's been a bit

25
00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,840
Speaker 3: of a journey the last probably year and a half

26
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,800
Speaker 3: to push through that. But it's surrounded by like the

27
00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,160
Speaker 3: great industry up here and all the wonderful people. I'm

28
00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,720
Speaker 3: lucky to have great business partners and a great team

29
00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,280
Speaker 3: around me, so all of that's really helped. And so

30
00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:25,840
Speaker 3: it's been quite a fun journey.

31
00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,440
Speaker 1: But you're just going from strength to strengths. I mean

32
00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,679
Speaker 1: the fact that you've opened, Like it's it's tough enough

33
00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,280
Speaker 1: opening to two bars, the Hanky Panky Lounge and also

34
00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,880
Speaker 1: Bar Kokomo. But then you to be recognized in the

35
00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,119
Speaker 1: way that you have been over the last twelve months

36
00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,559
Speaker 1: or so, you must feel quite humble but also pretty

37
00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,640
Speaker 1: excited by it all.

38
00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely like it all has been like the amount of

39
00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,000
Speaker 3: people on the local level and national levels that supported

40
00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,880
Speaker 3: me over the last like I guess it's been about

41
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,360
Speaker 3: twelve years I've been in hospitality. That support has sort

42
00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,840
Speaker 3: of like les to this moment. So much of just

43
00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,240
Speaker 3: like this year has been the biggest year. It's all

44
00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,800
Speaker 3: been from previous like support and love from everyone. And yeah,

45
00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,519
Speaker 3: it's really like been a good year.

46
00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,120
Speaker 1: It's so true, right, Like you know, people look at

47
00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,200
Speaker 1: you when you're succeeding and go, oh wow, look at

48
00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,440
Speaker 1: what's happening. But there's so much hard work in the

49
00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,280
Speaker 1: lead up to that. And I remember several years ago

50
00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,000
Speaker 1: when I'd interviewed you and you're away, you're overseas for

51
00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,200
Speaker 1: another competition, and that I can't even remember how long

52
00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,400
Speaker 1: ago that was, but it was quite a number of

53
00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,000
Speaker 1: years ago.

54
00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would have been in a twenty nineteen

55
00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,120
Speaker 3: started twenty twenty.

56
00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the thing.

57
00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,799
Speaker 1: So, I mean, you've been working so hard, You've been

58
00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,079
Speaker 1: doing so much. How has it been going? First off,

59
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,720
Speaker 1: getting Hanky Panky Lounge and also bar Kokomo up and running.

60
00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,240
Speaker 3: It's been all fun. Like Hanky is nearly three, so

61
00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,320
Speaker 3: in January it'll be it's third birthday. Though we opened

62
00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,200
Speaker 3: it obviously a bit of a weird time with the

63
00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,440
Speaker 3: whole COVID situation stuff still in Darwin, so it was

64
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,440
Speaker 3: a bit of a challenge to get through all those hurdles,

65
00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,800
Speaker 3: but Darwin was just I think ready for it. They

66
00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,600
Speaker 3: would have excited, and Hanky's been. I had a great

67
00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,720
Speaker 3: team basically from the get go and just worked our

68
00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,480
Speaker 3: asses off and we had a great time. The first

69
00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,720
Speaker 3: couple of years and then Pokemo became open for an

70
00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,160
Speaker 3: opportunity last year and it was a bit soon after

71
00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,839
Speaker 3: Hanky had opened, but we were ready for it and yeah,

72
00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,480
Speaker 3: it jumped into it and the team's been awesome. We're

73
00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,800
Speaker 3: very lucky. That's some great bartond there's an amazing chef.

74
00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,160
Speaker 3: Well straight away.

75
00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,680
Speaker 2: Yep, and you certainly do.

76
00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,800
Speaker 1: I mean even this year the top one hundred bartenders

77
00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,080
Speaker 1: in Australia, five of them from your two venues.

78
00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was huge. That's yeah, there's not many other

79
00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,400
Speaker 3: like groups around Australia. To have that number in that list,

80
00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,600
Speaker 3: that was insane.

81
00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, how proud do you feel then, you know, to think,

82
00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,800
Speaker 1: hey we're from little old Darwin and we are absolutely

83
00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,800
Speaker 1: batting above our average.

84
00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 3: Oh huge, Like I remember the four runners, like there

85
00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,280
Speaker 3: were was like three or four bartenders before me and

86
00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,320
Speaker 3: dah and that were pushing so hard and a couple

87
00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,120
Speaker 3: of them made it into lists like these and it

88
00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,520
Speaker 3: was such a huge, amazing achievement. And to now have

89
00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,640
Speaker 3: five people on that list, it's just yeah, it props

90
00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,560
Speaker 3: to them and it props to everyone who's worked so

91
00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,000
Speaker 3: hard of last decade in Darwin in hospitality.

92
00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,599
Speaker 1: I mean when you look through some of the achievements

93
00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,719
Speaker 1: as well. This year alone here in the Northern Territory,

94
00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,360
Speaker 1: you guys took out a number of hospitality awards. But

95
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,800
Speaker 1: then you've also got a situation where yourself and Decklan

96
00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,839
Speaker 1: Coffee are both on the list for the top twenty

97
00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,479
Speaker 1: five bartenders in Australia. Now that one's yet to be selected,

98
00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:38,880
Speaker 1: isn't it.

99
00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that one's more of a celebration of the

100
00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,799
Speaker 3: best bartenders. But that goes from that top one hundred

101
00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,760
Speaker 3: list and then those top one hundred bartenders sort of

102
00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,960
Speaker 3: vote for each other. It's like a per selection of

103
00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,760
Speaker 3: who they think the best twenty five are. Yeah and

104
00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,960
Speaker 3: so decon and I made it from that hundred to

105
00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,520
Speaker 3: the twenty five. So then it's just basically a celebration

106
00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,920
Speaker 3: of that. There's like a magazine coming out and then

107
00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,080
Speaker 3: there's a big party in February and there is a

108
00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,200
Speaker 3: number one like selected at the end, but it's more

109
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,240
Speaker 3: about the top twenty five in general. Like that's the celebration.

110
00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,840
Speaker 1: That's so cool and like how important do you reckon

111
00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,039
Speaker 1: it is as well in terms of you know, sort

112
00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,960
Speaker 1: of putting the hospitality scene on a national stage as

113
00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,840
Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory being.

114
00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,040
Speaker 2: On that national and international stage.

115
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,400
Speaker 3: Oh huge, Like at the Bar Awards in September with

116
00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,560
Speaker 3: myself and my husband Joey both winning national awards. That

117
00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,400
Speaker 3: was the first time ever in their twenty five years

118
00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,240
Speaker 3: that anyone the NT ever won a national award there,

119
00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,440
Speaker 3: So it was huge, Like we knew he had won,

120
00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,880
Speaker 3: but because we knew on the Monday night, so we

121
00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,039
Speaker 3: knew we were getting one that night. But then I

122
00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,680
Speaker 3: always got announced as the bar operator and it was

123
00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,760
Speaker 3: just such a special night, like and it's their last

124
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,880
Speaker 3: one ever too, so it was sort of like a

125
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,599
Speaker 3: sweet end to it for and to you know, get

126
00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,760
Speaker 3: on the map. And from that, we've already received so

127
00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,760
Speaker 3: much support from brands and things that like of like

128
00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,240
Speaker 3: I was begging for five years ago, we're getting it

129
00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,000
Speaker 3: coming to us instead. So it's huge for the industry.

130
00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,719
Speaker 1: How cool, Well, you know, like when you're up on

131
00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,080
Speaker 1: that national stage and when people are looking at at

132
00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,280
Speaker 1: Darwin and the Northern Territory, what do you reckon? Some

133
00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,440
Speaker 1: of the most surprising things are for them when they

134
00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,600
Speaker 1: look at at you know, our cocktail and bar Saint.

135
00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,240
Speaker 3: Well, I guess it's that education part that, like, our

136
00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,760
Speaker 3: people see us as a capital city, but we our

137
00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,400
Speaker 3: population is tiny. So there's regional awards and regional bars

138
00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,880
Speaker 3: that have twice the population that we do. And it's

139
00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,040
Speaker 3: them realizing that. So like, even though we're seen as

140
00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,040
Speaker 3: a capital city and we've seen as the main spot,

141
00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,880
Speaker 3: because they haven't been here or know much about daw

142
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,480
Speaker 3: and sort of that like telling her, you know, we've

143
00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,800
Speaker 3: only got one hundred and fifty thousand people and that's

144
00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,840
Speaker 3: what we have to work off and do our best.

145
00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,839
Speaker 3: And but the people in Darwen probably that's what makes

146
00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,719
Speaker 3: it so special because we've got such a great community

147
00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,760
Speaker 3: up here, so many great Like all our guests and

148
00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,720
Speaker 3: regulars are absolutely wonderful. So I guess it's like that side.

149
00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,520
Speaker 3: I think it's a very very special for up here.

150
00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:03,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

151
00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,000
Speaker 1: And then when you look at you know, some of

152
00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,039
Speaker 1: the different cocktails and some of the different ingredients and

153
00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,000
Speaker 1: things that you can use here on the top end,

154
00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,120
Speaker 1: how do you reckon that differentiates us from other places?

155
00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,480
Speaker 3: Oh, it's so wonderful to see what's trending down south

156
00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,440
Speaker 3: and even Citrus, Like it's a really good example. The

157
00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,240
Speaker 3: price of sit just down there, like it gets pretty

158
00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,760
Speaker 3: high up here at this time of the year, but

159
00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,560
Speaker 3: hous is just better and most of it is from

160
00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,600
Speaker 3: North Queensland are up here that they get down there,

161
00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,280
Speaker 3: but it's several days old by the time they get it.

162
00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,520
Speaker 3: And then the sort of native ingredients that they get, like, oh,

163
00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,000
Speaker 3: we're so lucky we've been able to get some rosella

164
00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,720
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, I guess we're very blessed for

165
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,120
Speaker 3: what we can access and what the great sort of

166
00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,920
Speaker 3: native produce and like local produces up here.

167
00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Annale's good on you.

168
00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,680
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's really I love it when

169
00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 1: the Northern Territory is recognized on a national stage. And

170
00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,880
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, depending on what industry you're in,

171
00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,240
Speaker 1: sometimes the rest of the community doesn't realize just how

172
00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,400
Speaker 1: well some of our territorians are going. And I think

173
00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,320
Speaker 1: it's incredible what you've done and also your staff, so

174
00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,480
Speaker 1: you should be so proud of your efforts.

175
00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,320
Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate it anytime.

176
00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,080
Speaker 2: Lovely to talk to you this morning. I really appreciate it.

177
00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, no worries, thanks, Katie appreciated well.

178
00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,040
Speaker 1: Actually analyse before I let you go, Crystal mentioned our

179
00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,280
Speaker 1: producer mentioned that you've got something special on tomorrow night.

180
00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,760
Speaker 3: Yes, so our last event with the luxA Festival has

181
00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,200
Speaker 3: done a few over the months, but this one is

182
00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,280
Speaker 3: our chepher the year Pablo who won at the nc

183
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:44,080
Speaker 3: Australian c Gold Player words. He's created a Luxter inspired menu,

184
00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,360
Speaker 3: so we do a lot of fusion food. So this

185
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,960
Speaker 3: is sort of our style which is Caribbean South American,

186
00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,360
Speaker 3: but fusion with Luxo and Malaysia inspired ingredients and it's

187
00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,280
Speaker 3: sort of like a breakdown of each ingredient in the

188
00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,480
Speaker 3: Luxter and how we've used that. We've got things like

189
00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:05,520
Speaker 3: right tacos with like full coconut battered prawns and yeah,

190
00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,160
Speaker 3: crocodile and binades which have been a huge hit this month.

191
00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,800
Speaker 3: All those have been really really great. There's like a

192
00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,400
Speaker 3: full dinner with that. And we've got two tickets to

193
00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,280
Speaker 3: give away for tomorrow night on your show.

194
00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,480
Speaker 1: Oh you are a legend, So two tickets to give

195
00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,199
Speaker 1: away so to one lucky pair if they want to

196
00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,160
Speaker 1: give us a call or what if someone wants to

197
00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,880
Speaker 1: give us a call? Now eight nine four one one

198
00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,840
Speaker 1: O four nine Crystal is out on the phone line,

199
00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:29,760
Speaker 1: ready and waiting.

200
00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,400
Speaker 2: Whim, I reckon, We'll.

201
00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,400
Speaker 1: Give it to the most deserving person. This morning, Analise,

202
00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:35,360
Speaker 1: what do you reckon?

203
00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:36,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds great.

204
00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,040
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And I love your work, love

205
00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:40,640
Speaker 2: what you're doing.

206
00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:42,720
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

207
00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,000
Speaker 2: Thanks Atalie sa