In 2013, Michael departed London for Australia’s thriving restaurant scene, spending six months undertaking ‘stages’ at a number of Melbourne’s leading restaurants including with chef Ben Shewry in Attica, which in 2015 was ranked number 32 in the ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ with Andrew Macdonald’s ‘Two Hat’ restaurant Cutler and Co and worked for two years’ with Australian celebrity chef Shannon