with Barossa’s best dining
experiences, capturing the
imagination of celebrity chefs,
Hollywood stars and royalty.
Owen admits he is living the dream
but becomes emotional when he
tells of the difficult road that led
him to this picture perfect location.
He describes growing up in a
poor family, the only son of Errol
and Marg Andrews who moved
to Greenock in search for the
best possible life for their four
young children.
The family lived in nearly every
Barossa town, renovating old
houses then upgrading to a slightly
better one and doing the
same again.
“It was what they had to do to keep
making things better. I guess that
shaped me a little bit. You keep
working with that same mind-set
to keep improving and evolving.”
dishes. He didn’t want to leave
me on the weekends, he wanted to
spend them with me so he said he
would only go if I could come too.
But a day of discovery would
change his life. “I walked into a kitchen when
I was 13 and instantly fell in love
with the romance of a busy kitchen.
I remember they were cooking a
crab bisque, the windows were all
fogged and as I opened the door,
the smell of food flavours that I
never experienced before hit me.
It was so inviting. All my senses
went ting, ting, ting! From that
moment I was addicted.
“My sister was working in a kitchen
at The Lanzerac at Tanunda and
dad was asked to help do some “I worked really hard, I wanted
a job. Eventually my dad’s phone
stopped ringing as often and I got
Born with dyslexia, Owen struggled
at school and remembers hearing
people say “What will become of
Errol’s boy?”
the job. Every day after school
I would catch the Tanunda school
bus from Nuri. I would do all the
afternoon dishes from the kitchen,
work into the evening and scoot
home to get ready for school the
next day.”
Owen had finally found an
environment where hard work
and creativity would compensate
for his struggles with dyslexia.
“Just because things were a struggle
in the classroom, didn’t mean
I didn’t have a lot to offer in life.
I just came at it in a different way.”
The unyielding determination
instilled by his parents kicked
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