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 podcast where host Dani Valent asks hard questions about what really happens in restaurants, cafes, and bars. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for sourcing hospitality leaders and makers—people tied to real venues, operational change, and industry issues—told with humor and compassion.

Metrics

Episodes: 1049

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: Australia

Instagram: 4.4k followers

Contact Information

rlocke@glimpseentertainment.com

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Host

Dani Valent - Australian journalist and food industry reporter based in Melbourne, described as a respected restaurant critic writing for 20 years about restaurants and the people who give them life. The podcast...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Hospitality operators and decision-makers tied to real venues (owners, long-tenured hospitality professionals turning into/operating businesses), plus potentially key supporting roles across the industry (e.g., chefs and ancillary trades such as tech/pottery mentioned in the show description). Guests are typically people with lived operational experience and a thoughtful angle on the industry’s hard-to-discuss realities.
Required Achievements:  
Owner/operator of a restaurant or pub, Demonstrated tenure in hospitality (e.g., long-term role at an established venue), Opening/launching a new hospitality business, Notable investment or operational change within their venue group

Recent Guest Discussions

Fhred Batalona - Running A Restaurant That Embodies Hospitality’s Best; From Home Cooking To Industry Change; Making A Supportive Environment.

Franck Sammut - Restaurant Life After Decades; Challenges As A First-time Business Owner; Staying Engaged; Restaurant Operations/experience.

Liam Ganley - Tradition Vs Innovation; Journey And Optimism Amid Challenging Times For Hospitality; Building And Investing With The Belief In Gathering.

Recent Topics

Hospitality, Restaurants, Food, Business, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent
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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...

Postcard from Vietnam - dawn at the Hanoi wholesale market.

July 03, 2026

Dirty Linen is in Vietnam! We get up at 4am for a dawn tour of Long Bien wholesale market (and more) with local chef Duyen Phan. Along the way Duyen told me some of her own story. She left her village as a young teen and ended up working for vendors at this market for two years, before a chance encounter with an English woman inspired her to learn English herself and build a different kind of life. I was introduced to her by Tracey Lister, a Melbourne chef and teacher who spent a long tim...

Fhred Batalona (Palay, Fitzroy) - From Home Cooking to Industry Change

June 23, 2026

When you’ve experienced the worst of hospitality, how do you run a restaurant that exemplifies its best? Fhred Batalona owns Palay, a Filipino ‘house’ in Melbourne’s Fitzroy. He grew up in a multicultural home, trained as a chef in the Philippines, and moved to Australia to work and study. After years as an employee, he’s now a business owner, striving to create an environment that’s happy and supportive. https://www.palay.com.au SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER FOR EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES, NEW...

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