
Melbourne’s Rosemary Andrews, a former head chef at Ben Shewry’s Attica Summer Camp where her dessert trolley became legendary, gives cakes their true value by displaying them like fine jewellery or a sought-after handbag, on brass plinths and under glass cloches. Her fans were ready to feast and willing to queue as soon as the much-feted Chef opened her first shop, Mietta by Rosemary, which means ‘sweet little thing’ in late 2023, and the crowds turn out every weekend to try and snaffle a slice of eight-layer Carrot Cake Dreams, seven-layer OG Honey-Misu, two-texture Valrhona Chocolate Cake, or Negroni Chocolate Tart. Can you take any more layers - Andrews’ covetable Guinness Chocolate Cake has 16! She began baking at home as a teenager and has worked in London with Gordon Ramsay, and at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and The Ledbury, before finding her niche in Melbourne during the pandemic with her dessert box business. Mietta By Rosemary is a long-term pop-up, so get there before it goes!