Having worked in “stainless steel hell” for so many years, it’s important to [Curley] that home is clean, comfortable and light. Ian Curley has presence. With his booming British voice and a mischievous glint in the eye, he has made a memorable career on foreign soil in the tough-to-crack culinary world.
Words like antagonist, brazen and maverick have followed Curley around. While the tattoocovered, larrikin side rings true, there is a family man behind it all. The culmination of which is most apparent in his Brighton home in Melbourne where he has lived for more than 15 years with his partner Simone and their three daughters.
Curley jokes about how he’s softened as he’s gotten older. “It’s hard to do the swearing, tough-guy thing when you’ve been dancing to the…
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