Laissez-faire welcomes Executive Chef ...    

Our Executive Chef Brad Pittman heads up our kitchen team in May. After beginning his career 17 years ago, Brad has been quietly working away honing his culinary skills in the best 4 & 5 star hotels and resorts across Australia, including the award winning ‘The Queens’ restaurant in Perth and heading up the team in Melbourne’s Mercure Hotel.
Brad has developed his own style of cookery with a strong influence from the
Mediterranean region, while using the freshest Australian produce.

MTV Australia Awards April 2008

Australian Technology Park was the home of the MTV Australia Awards 2008. MTV utilised every square inch of the events centre and held the main show in the exhibition hall. The Bay 8 Atrium was transformed into a pre-party area complete with SingStar, photo booths, manicure stations and barrels of chupa chups.
Throughout the night interviews took place from small sets created within the historic machinery display in the Locomotive Workshop. MTV loved the unique, gritty nature of the venue and stuck with the industrial theme using old storage containers to create an on-camera green room for the stars presenting and performing at the show.
Aside from having such a unique event space ATP was able to deliver MTV’s practical requirements with 14+ meeting rooms to be used as production offices, a necessity for an event of this size.
The park buzzed for the week with more than 350 MTV staff and crew working on-site and all catering done by Laissez-faire catering.

CLIENT’S COMMENT: What a show! The response to the award show across the globe has been fantastic. You’ll be pleased to know that all the international and national talent couldn’t believe how good the venue looked. I wanted to thank you for all your support, the ATP is an amazing location and venue. The Red Carpet also looked amazing and the feedback has been extremely positive.

Thanks again.

Ean Thorley, executive producer, mtv australia & new Zealand