• #11 - 31 Aug 2026 - Girl Gang 5 (all female) with Pipit, Feu, Raes, Frida’s Field and Conscious Ground (producer mentor)

• #10 - 26 Oct 2025 - Girl Gang 4 (all female) with Pipit, Fig Tree, Three Blue Ducks (with producer mentors from Boon Luck Farm, Raven Place, Algamarine, Cheeses Loves You). Part of Savour the Tweed

• #9 - 24 March 2025. Nashau - Frida’s Field Edition with No Bones, Eltham Hotel, Light Years, Epicure Supper Club (with mentors from Pipit, Loft, Fig Tree, Nomadic Kitchen)

• #8 - 5 Aug 2024 - Girl Gang 3 (all female) with Pipit, Bar Heather, The Smoking Camel, Timbo (with mentors from Beach, Karkalla, Joy, The Spotted Pig)

• #7 - 21 May 2024 - Byron Bay - Loft Edition - with Pipit, Loft, Paper Daisy, Rae's at Wategoes (with mentors from Pipit, Light Years, The Hut, Shelter)

• #6 - 29 August 2023 - Byron Bay - Pixie Edition with Pixie, No35, Chef’s Plate, Loft, You Beauty (with mentors from Pipit, Natural Ice Cream Australia, Frida’s Field, Pixie)

• #5 - 27 March 2023 - Girl Gang 2 (all female) with Pipit, Fig Tree, Beach (with mentors from Joy, Honour, Karakalla)

• #4 - 17 Oct 2022 - Lennox Heads - Shelter Edition with Pipit, Harvest, Karakalla, Shelter (with mentors from Pipit, Honour, Three Blue Ducks and Karrikin)

• #3 - 16 May 2022 - Yamba - Karrikin Edition with Pipit, Ciao Mate, Rae’s at Wategos, Karrikin (with mentors from Lola, Shelter, Pipit, Rae’s)

• #2 - 25 Jan 2022 - Girl Gang 1 (all female) with Pipit, LaCasita, Ciao Mate (with mentors from Beach Byron, The Star and Cut Above)

• #1 - 20 Sept 2021 - First Edition with Pipit, Fins, Ciao Mate, Three Blue Ducks, Potager

GET INVOLVED!

The 4x4x4 Chef Collab is based on

• 3 levels of chef partnerships across multiple venues

• 6 week facilitated framework

• Financial cost model (young chefs are paid)

• Positive regional cooperation

We aim for 1-2 events per year and are inclusive of all chefs and venue types.

Our main aim is diversity in gender, chef levels and geography (north to Tweed and south of Byron)

Please email admin@pipitrestaurant.com if you a chef or venue interested to get involved in future events.

Roles can include:

• Cooking Chefs (making a dish for menu). Any chef from apprentices up to sous chefs are encouraged.

• Mentor Chefs (executive chefs) are encouraged to guide chefs from other venues

• Local venue host (with event support by Pipit provided). Event structure and framework is facilitated

OBJECTIVES: Why we do these?

1. The 2021 OG event aimed to help young chefs make connections and new friends.  It recognises that regional areas differ to bigger cities due to geographic distance, shared hours, and limited inter-restaurant opportunities 

2. Giving visibility and voices to younger chefs

3. Creating positive workplace cultures through collaboration

4. Chefs get mentoring, training and learning by being in a different kitchens

5. Young chefs get creative freedom being in different kitchen and/or menu style

6. Exec chefs/owners/mentors benefit from the networking and collaboration, which we also found as an training gap.

7. Regional mindset towards training, leadership and our visitor economy. It advocates our region’s “foodie reputation” as stronger for the sum of many parts/venues.

OUTCOMES
The nature of collaborations has led to ongoing positive workplace cultures like:

• Several young chefs feeling empowered to do their own pop-ups

• Venues validating young chefs by putting event pop-up dishes on real menus afterwards

• Venues empowering their young chefs via other events like in-house  “takeovers”

• Several mentors, chefs and host venues have independently continued on other collaborative events

• Young chefs have gained employment with host venues