Shaping the Dining Experience: Custom Plates for Australia’s Top Restaurants w/ Sam Gordon

What goes into crafting handmade plates for Australia’s top restaurants?

In this episode, Paul sits down with Sam Gordon, a third-generation potter and founder of Sam Gordon Pottery. After more than twenty years at his family’s globally recognised brand, Robert Gordon Pottery, Sam decided to step away and return to the wheel. Today, he makes handmade plates for some of Australia’s most celebrated restaurants — including Nomad, Stokehouse, and Josh Niland’s venues — as well as international projects like Louis Vuitton in Mexico. Sam shares the lessons he’s learned from navigating the pressures of a global retail business, the creative freedom of focusing on hospitality, and the challenges of building something new from the ground up.

 The advice he’d give to his younger self, and to anyone starting their own business in hospitality.

This episode is about passion, resilience, and staying true to your craft while finding new ways to grow in hospitality.

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