David Thompson’s former right-hand woman brings her intimate, personal expression of Thai dining to Sydney’s Woolloomooloo neighbourhood.
Restaurants throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. Hosting guided luxury boat tours along the Mekong. Consulting to Jaan Bai, a social enterprise in Battambang established by the Cambodian Children’s Trust: if keeping tabs on David Thompson’s (pre-Covid) movements was hard as an eater, spare a thought for Annita Potter. For close to a decade, Perth-born Potter was the Thai food authority’s executive chef and travelled the world working on Thompson’s myriad projects and eateries.
After helping steer Thompson’s Hong Kong fine-diner Aaharn to a Michelin star in 2019, Potter went solo at year’s end to pursue, in her words, “a little slice of normality”. And then Covid hit.
Unable to find any restaurant work in Sydney, Potter took things into her own hands and set up Viand: a two-nights-a-week pop-up at Darlinghurst’s Almond Bar slinging uncompromising Thai food. Her decision was about more than just dollars.
“I needed to cook,” says Potter. “I needed to feed people again. It’s the one thing that grounds me and centres me, and I had no ability to do it. [The pop-up] may not have been the best idea, but it kept me afloat.”
Despite these misgivings, the pop-up was a hit and paved the way for the opening of a permanent Viand in Woolloomooloo earlier this year: a spacious, 40-seat space that embodies Potter’s ideas of both Thai food and hospitality.
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