Lucy and Stephen found that they shared a passion for music and food, which led them to a marriage not only in love but also in their enthusiasm for French cuisine. Incredibly, Lucy and Stephen discovered that they had both worked in London with the rich and famous, but at completely different times in their lives. While Stephen was cooking for the aristocracy and celebrities of the world, Lucy was honing her musical skills eventually obtaining her music degree and working in the classical music industry in London. She spent 19 years working in association for the award winning classical music label Hyperion Records and found herself involved with many recordings of some of the most famous classical musicians in the business.

Lucy has also been noted for her discovery of the famous ground base, La Folia, in Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which had apparently escaped the attention of musicologists for nearly 200 years. This was published in the UK Musical Times. The Australian pianist, Lesley Howard, also made reference to Lucy's detection of La Folia in his notes for Franz Liszt's Complete Music for Piano, vol 44 - The Early Beethoven transcriptions. Lucy also compiled some of Hyperion's best selling show case compact discs - most notably, The Essential Hyperion, which found its way into the classical music charts. This achievement caught the attention of the music company, Schott, who produced an accompanying booklet for The Essential Hyperion CD with the purpose of teaching classical music in schools. Lucy went on to be commissioned by BBC Music Magazine to make a compilation of Christmas music for their December edition. This was so successful it was reissued on the Hyperion label as Christmas Through The Ages.

Lucy also has a small acting portfolio. "Very small" she says, "I was lucky to get involved as an extra in the BBC2 TV series, TV OFFAL, written and produced by one of the London Evening Standard's more controversial columnists, Victor Lewis Smith. "Then out of the blue I got asked to do a simple walk on part as Salieri's wife in a professional performance of the Peter Shaffer play, Amadeus and invited to sing with the choir for these performances. "Later, I got a bit braver and auditioned for a part in Shakespeare's, Taming of the Shrew, which was being produced by a very good semi-professional acting company. I had originally thought I was going to help with the props but got invited to audition." To her complete astonishment she was not only given the part of, Kate, but achieved the best amateur actress award in the UK. "It was an extraordinary time as I was then head-hunted for the lead in Guys and Dolls. I was torn in two directions as I had simultaneously been offered a place on a pre-med course." This pre-med course was in fact the Access to Medicine Course in King's Lynn, the most prestigious one of its kind in the UK. After completing this and a year at medical school, Lucy tried to transfer her medical studies to Australia. Even with a reference from the Dean of the medical school where she had trained, she was unsuccessful in transferring her studies to a medical school in Australia. " I came up against a brick wall in Australia," she says, "and after that I felt I had lost my way. I had a UK speech pathology background, a great year at medical school, yet none of this cut any ice with the Australian system even though their course structure was modelled on the British one. The story of how I ended up where I am now is long and so bizarre, nobody would believe it," she says. Well, however the journey goes, Lucy's path led her to the Sunshine Coast and to the very door of the restaurant once called, Bin 106, where she met Stephen.

“It’s extraordinary that we both ended up here on the Sunshine Coast on the other side of the world," says Lucy. “If it were not for a great desire to seek out real French food above all other world cuisine, I might not ever have met Stephen but I really missed French food and was seriously searching for the real thing on the Sunshine Coast - traditional French fare - and I found it in Stephen's cooking! It's the food I love and know from my earlier life when I made many many visits to France, primarily for the food and suddenly here it was right on my doorstep; the most amazing Chef and now the love of my life. Amazing!”

And how lucky for us that Stephen and Lucy did meet, for now they have joined together their food and musical passion to bring us Brasserie Cent Six and the promise of many more traditional French gastronomic treats in a unique musical atmosphere that is like stepping back into the original restaurants of France. In the words of one customer, so beautifully phrased: "When you come and dine at Brasserie Cent Six . . . Paris can wait.”