This week Latika Takes: The Podcast is in in Washington DC and meets Alex Butterworth and chef Bart Hutchins, a former staffer to US President Barack Obama.

Alex Butterworth at one point attempted to run for the West Australian federal seat of Pearce for the Liberal Party. He moved to the US to work for Uber Eats as an attorney.

Alex Butterworth, founder of Butterworths, Bart Hutchins, head chef of Butterworths speak to Latika M Bourke for Latika Takes: the Podcast at Butterworths in Washington DC.

He became frustrated with the quality of restaurants in Washington DC and dreamed of setting up a Melbourne-style supper club.

Due to one of his investors, Raheem Kassam, formerly of Breitbart News London, Butterworths quickly became loved by MAGA identities and high-profile figures from the Trump Administration are frequent diners.

In this episode, Alex and Bart discuss how they created the menu, the difficulty in executing a pavlova and how they balance being known as the MAGA hotspot in a town that is firmly anti the Trump Administration and is now often targeted by protestors.

Latika asks if Trump’s National Guard move made any difference to business or not and what they’d serve the President and First Lady when and if they make their visit.

Alex discusses the state of the Liberal Party in Australia, his view of Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Australian Coalition and what they should be learning from the populist movements in the US and UK.

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