About Us

Paradise Beach Purveyors was started by Anmarie Dabinet and Steve Ingram, two ex advertising creatives, born out of their shared food experience and passion for great food, wonderful ingredients and fabulous flavours from all over the world.

Anmarie learned about the value of fresh ingredients from her parent’s South Australian vegetable garden and fruit trees and about different cuisines through travel and living in Barcelona for two years. She also ran a successful catering business.

Anmarie’s favourite food experience is wandering from tapas bar to tapas bar in the old quarter of Barcelona late in the evening, enjoying the wonderful flavours with friends.

Steve grew up in England, and had food mad parents who would holiday in Europe in summer and dive into every Food Market and Charcuterie and Delicatessen they could find in Spain, France and Italy. He travelled overland to Australia, delighting in every new culinary treat along the way. Street food and casual dining are a particular favourite hence the dips connection.

One of his favourite food experiences was on holiday, age 11, meeting an Italian family who took him to their secret wild mushroom and wild strawberry patches high up in the summer meadows of the Dolomite Mountains. They returned to the Hotel having picked several bags full which the proprietor of the hotel served all the guests for dinner. “The flavour of the Chanterelle mushrooms and the fragrance of the tiny alpine strawberries was unforgettable. I was hooked from that day on.”

Steve did a commercial cookery course and a three year apprenticeship at The Beach House Restaurant at Whale Beach, Sydney prior to starting Paradise Beach Purveyors with Anmarie.