Vue de Monde, Melbourne

The most remarkable moment during a night at Vue de Monde isn’t simply a delightful interaction with the person serving you, be it a waiter, sommelier or chef. It’s when you look around and realise that every table is getting the same joyful service.

Much of that is due to the training and mentoring of the team, driven by restaurant manager Rajnor Soin.

He credits his psychiatrist parents with instilling a desire to understand what makes people tick. But the seamless mix of elegance and fun Soin brings to Vue de Monde’s dining room is all his own.

His magic is not only in delivering the smooth, sophisticated experience guests expect at a restaurant of this calibre. It’s in ensuring that experience is warm and free from artifice.

Achieving that while motivating an entire team is excellence on a whole other level.