Executive Chef and restaurateur Simon Gault has worked as personal chef to international high-flyers, and is well known throughout the country for his immensely successful restaurants: Euro, FISH and Jervois Steak House in Auckland, Bistro Lago in Taupo, Jervois Steak House in Queenstown and Shed 5, Pravda and The Crab Shack in Wellington. TV audiences know him well as one of the celebrity judges of MasterChef New Zealand, now in its fifth year.

His new book, Simon Gault Modern Classics, is a must-have for the discerning home cook. Enjoy a light Sunday brunch and listen to Gault as he talks with The Press’s food editor, Kate Fraser, about his sparkling career and about what makes good food.