Start the day with Daniel
Emma’s Good Morning
homewares range, available
at Melbourne’s National
Gallery of Victoria design
store and Adelaide’s
JamFactory, where designers
Daniel To and Emma Aiston
are creative directors.
daniel-emma.comART AT ULURU
The artists of Ernabella have a lot to do with the
look and feel of Longitude 131, the luxury lodge with
views to Uluru. Many of the commissioned canvases,
ceramics and tiles in guest tents and the communal
Dune House originated in the community, about 250
kilometres south-east of Uluru. Part of the partnership
between the lodge and the community is a new
artist-in-residence program, which offers Longitude
guests the chance to meet the makers on 19-25 May,
and again in July and October (longitude131.com.au).
This month’s artists’ program coincides with the
running of the Uluru Camel Cup on 24-25 May- “all class, no grass” (northernterritory.com).
Around the world in 167 days
A joke with a colleague has turned into Silversea’s
wildly ambitious Uncharted World Tour, a 167-day
expedition voyage visiting 107 destinations in
30 countries on six continents. Conrad Combrink,
the cruise line’s senior vice-president and expedition
junkie (a veteran of 67 voyages to Antarctica, for
starters), said the idea “took on a life of its own” when
his team started to string together its dream voyage.
The tour begins in the Argentinian port of Ushuaia
on 30 January 2021 and ends in mid-July in Tromsø,
Norway. Combrink is among the line-up of specialist
expedition leaders, including scientists, explorers and
archaeologists. From $138,000 per person, silversea.comWall of fame
A restaurant in Copenhagen has a novel
way of dealing with no-shows.Diners who fail to honour their
bookings are a big problem for
restaurants. One estimate puts the
cost at $75 million in Australia
alone. In 2017, booking site The
Fork blacklisted 38,000 people for
not honouring their reservations.
Sarah Devine, the sommelier at
Copenhagen restaurant Barabba,
recalls one Saturday night when
more than 16 people failed to arrive
for their bookings. This incident
and others prompted the team to
devise a creative solution: a “wall
of fame” on which staff wrote the
names of no-shows.
She cites the case of Lasse L.
“Lasse booked a table on a Friday
night at 8pm for six people. After
he had not turned up, we called
him at 8.20pm. He was very
apologetic, and insisted thathe was supposed to have booked
for the following Friday night.
“The next Friday, we called and
re-confirmed. The booking time
came and went with no Lasse L
arriving. This time he did not
pick up his phone and we have not
been able to reach him since. Both
nights, we had turned tables away.”
Lasse L didn’t make his
reservation, but he did make
the wall. Barabba initially didn’t
publicise its scheme, but patrons
would ask about the list, and it
eventually made the front page
of Danish newspaper Politiken.
So is Barabba’s approach
working? “Our aim was to start a
conversation,” says Devine, “and,
to that end, I think it has been
very successful. It’s the only wall
of fame you don’t want to be on.”22 GOURMET TRAVELLER