ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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PEOPLE
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APR-JUN 2022
BELOW The Lucas restaurant empire is immense, and diverse. Currently seating at nine venues, mostly in Melbourne, the common theme is to ‘expect the unexpected’.
Raising the hospitality stakes (& steaks) to greater heights WORDS PRUE MILLER
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After the savage hand the hospitality industry was dealt during COVID, you’d think all the big players would be declaring all bets are off – but no. The best in the game are doubling down, raising the stakes (and steaks) to greater heights.