Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent

Dani Valent

rlocke@glimpseentertainment.com

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Booking Overview

Dirty Linen is a behind-the-scenes hospitality show that blends tough questions with compassion, humor, and human detail. It’s a strong booking platform for restaurant, food, and hospitality leaders who have real operational stories—owners, chefs, and industry figures—where the conversation goes beyond the menu.

Metrics

Episodes: 1051

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: Australia

Instagram: 4.4k followers

Contact Information

rlocke@glimpseentertainment.com

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Host

Dani Valent - Australian journalist and food critic/industry reporter based in Melbourne. The show description says she’s been writing about restaurants for 20 years and now interviews people behind the scenes (...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Hospitality leaders with operational credibility (restaurant/cafe/bar owners, chefs, heads of kitchen operations, and senior industry figures). Guests should have a specific behind-the-scenes story that touches business realities and/or “hard-to-share” industry topics.
Required Achievements:  
Chef/owner leadership of a notable venue (often Michelin-linked), Brand-building in food/hospitality (including vegan/alternative food concepts), Experience with recognized kitchen cultures or training/staging practices

Recent Guest Discussions

Shannon Martinez - Vegan Hospitality Strategy; Why Older Hospitality Models Stop Working; Learning From A Finance Perspective; Vegan Eating Trends Amid Meat-focused Culture.

Dave Pynt - Michelin Stars; New Zealand & South Australia Connections; Kitchen Culture In Singapore; Staging/work-for-free In Restaurants; Experience Related To NOMA In Copenhagen.

Recent Topics

Hospitality, Restaurants, Food, Chefs, Hospitality Business

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent
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Rhonda Andrews (Barrington Centre) - The Power of Connection in Hospitality

July 12, 2026

Poor working environments aren’t just a bummer, they are illegal. Every Australian jurisdiction requires employers to explicitly identify, assess, and control hazards that could harm someone’s mental health. Rhonda Andrews is a psychologist and the CEO of Barrington Centre, a specialist team of psychologists and consultants. We talk workplace culture, burn-out and why chefs are as important as brain surgeons. Our last chat in 2022: https://deepintheweeds.com.au/podcast/rhonda-andrews-b...

Shannon Martinez (Smith & Daughters, Smith & Deli) - doubling down

July 08, 2026

She was on the verge of packing in her plant-based businesses and moving to Spain but Shannon Martinez (Smith & Daughters, Smith & Deli) has doubled down on her vegan food brands with new investor Kelly Jarrett. Why don’t the old models work in hospitality anymore? What has Shannon learnt from a finance person about the food business? And what’s happened to vegan eating in an age of meat-maxxing? https://www.instagram.com/shannon_martinez/?hl=en SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER FOR EXCLUSIVE...

Dave Pynt (Burnt Ends, Singapore) - Big, juicy chat!

July 05, 2026

There’s no bad time to catch up with Dave Pynt, chef and owner of fire-driven Michelin-starred Burnt Ends in Singapore. However, this seems like an especially good time to talk Michelin stars and New Zealand & South Australia, kitchen culture in Singapore, whether staging (working for free in restaurants) is a good thing, especially in light of Dave’s topical experience at NOMA in Copenhagen. https://burntends.com.sg We also mention Will Goldfarb - here’s my chat with Will from 2021, w...

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