#35 Tom Peasnell

On the day I chatted to Tom, it was his 32nd birthday. He has plenty to celebrate. Co-owning three popular restaurants in Melbourne with your brother and best mate is not something to downplay. And Cheek is super cool. It spaces the fun out over three levels. The first floor I knew about and boasts a restaurant with a backlit wall of wine bottles and a dry ageing fridge sporting a lot of meat. Tom gave me the tour up one floor to Peaches, the ever so pretty blush-pink bar with suede booths and terrazzo tables and then up yet another flight of stairs to the rooftop where you can be king or queen of all you survey and also toasty warm now the temperature has dropped because of the massive heaters and underfloor heating cleverly wrangled into the bench seats.