WRITING NEW CHAPTERS
ANNITA POTTER, VIAND
David Thompson’s former right-hand woman brings her intimate, personal expression of Thai dining to Sydney’s Woolloomooloo neighbourhood.
Restaurants throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. Hosting guided luxury boat tours along the Mekong. Consulting to Jaan Bai, a social enterprise in Battambang established by the Cambodian Children’s Trust: if keeping tabs on David Thompson’s (pre-Covid) movements was hard as an eater, spare a thought for Annita Potter. For close to a decade, Perth-born Potter was the Thai food authority’s executive chef and travelled the world working on Thompson’s myriad projects and eateries.
After helping steer Thompson’s Hong Kong fine-diner Aaharn to a Michelin star in 2019, Potter went solo at year’s end to pursue, in her words, “a little slice of
