David Dellai and I have honestly been trying for weeks to sit down together for a chat and all sorts of lockdowns and other things got in the way. But it was absolutely worth the wait to sit down with David and talk about his love of food and cooking, which stems back to when he was four years old, actually, and to find out more about Venetian food and how to choose the best white truffle. David showed me an eerie video he took on Saturday night just outside the door of Il Bacaro on Little Collins Street. It was our snap lockdown 3.0 and to see no one on the streets of central Melbourne on a balmy evening on Valentine’s weekend was another bleak reminder of all our hospitality heroes have been through. I am so happy they are back on the pans and cooking up a storm and that we get to reap the benefits.