Yesterday I rode 89 floors in an elevator to Eureka 89, the restaurant one floor above the Melbourne Skydeck to talk to the glorious Renee Martillano, who Is the Executive chef there. The Skydeck is the Southern Hemisphere’s highest observation deck and the tower itself is 297.3 metres tall with 91 floors. So the 89th floor is a long way up. It is beautiful up there and I loved sitting up there with Renee, hearing her story with such an incredible backdrop. I think it says a lot about a chef and about a venue when there is longevity involved and Renee has been riding the lift to the 89th floor since 2011. She loves it. And that’s obvious from the way she talks about the food, but more importantly the way she talks about her team. Yesterday was her day off but she went into the kitchen to see how they were all going, and she talked about staff meals and how she loves how that brings everyone together. I can’t wait to go back and have one of Renee’s five or six course degustation dinners, looking out across the Yarra to the Dandenongs. I decided to include the start of my journey, so you are actually going to ride the lift with me and meet Danielle, the sales and marketing manager who took Renee and I up to the 89th floor and then we get into the chat.