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Chefs Ink

Chef Giovanni Pilu. Pilu has the names of his siblings Martino, Cri for Christian and Ale for Alessandra on his calf. "Some people go, 'Oh man, what's that on the back of your leg; your recipe for suckling pig or something?'" Photo: Jon Reid
  • Renowned pastry chef Adriano Zumbo.
  • Chef Mike Patrick from San Telmo.
  • Chef Mike Patrick from San Telmo.
  • Chef Joel Alderson from The Estelle.
  • Reid Hingston, chef at the Beresford Hotel, Darlinghurst. 
A rattle snake wraps itself around a samurai sword, part of a jungle of tattoos on Hingston's torso.
  • Chef Ben Cooper from Chin Chin.
  • Elvis Abrahanowicz from Porteno and Bodega, Surry Hills. 
Abrahamowicz's right forearm tattoos include a knife through the skin and his poodle Buddy eating a sock.
  • Ben Milgate from Porteno and Bodega, Surry Hills. Milgate's first tattoo was an Inca design tattooed in Peru on his right forearm.
  • Ben Milgate  from Porteno and Bodega, Surry Hills. 
Milgate's first tattoo was an Inca design tattooed in Peru on his right forearm.
  • Hamish Ingham from BarH in Surry Hills. 
The phoenix on Ingham's shoulder will spread across his back when completed.
  • Daniel Dobra from the Aylesbury.
  • Chef Brydie Smith's tattooed arms.
  • Chef Brydie Smith from Slowpoke Espresso.