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AGE Good Food Guide Awards in Melbourne

It was a cracker of a night in Melbourne last evening for the Rockpool Group. The AGE handed out the toques and awards and we were proud as punch to be there and to feel such a great part of this vibrant city and it’s healthy restaurant and bar scene.     Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne [...]

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Spice Temple Melbourne – new hours – new dishes!

There’s a few changes afoot at Spice Temple Melbourne. We are now open late on Friday and Saturday nights – great for after work and even better after a show!    Sit upstairs or down in our moody basement, just past the bar, being sure to grab a rabbit or a snake on your way [...]

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Perth opens its hearts and wallets for charity

  10 February 2011: More than $400,000 was raised at last night’s exclusive charity dinner at Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth, benefiting Starlight Children’s Foundation and celebrating the launch of Neil Perry’s seventh restaurant in Australia.  Attended by many of Perth’s leading business people, guests enjoyed a six course menu prepared by Perry and his team [...]

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CHINESE NEW YEAR AT SPICE TEMPLE

MELBOURNE    To celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit, Spice Temple Melbourne will be presenting a special banquet menu from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 February. Head Chef, Ben Pollard has created a special menu of Spice Temple signature dishes, incorporating ingredients that promote health, wealth and fertility during New Year [...]

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Large lobsters going off on the grill at RB&G Melbourne!!

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Perry’s Progress

In this week’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne AGE, by Nikki Barrowclough If Neil Perry couldn’t stand the heat, he would’ve packed up his knives for good long ago. Despite restaurant closures, a fluctuating fortune and three marriages, Australia’s most iron-willed chef is still standing. Stronger than ever, in fact. Neil Perry is a man [...]

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Cup Day – Lexus Marquee and all the restaurants firing!

What a huge cup day!!! It started out with a trip to the Lexus Marquee -looking good and everyone certainly appeared to be having a great time. Our food was coming out well and everyone was intent on drinking, eating and backing a winner.    After getting second in the cup, but only backing it to [...]

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Open!!!

Well we did it…Spice Temple Melbourne is open!!! We just need to fine tune now, get the builders to fix the issues. Keep training, more and more product knowledge for the floor. The kitchen just needs the numbers now get it moving. All the dishes will be on the menu by early next week. We just [...]

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Spice Melbourne…family and friends fed!!!

Well we got through the soft opening and the builders are almost out. Defects next week, fix up a few issues, but all in all it is looking amazing. A really hard space to shoot as the lighting is so dramatic.     As first nights go it was great! Ben, Brendan and the kitchen team did [...]

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TWR – 2.5 hours until opening

My gorgeous bar. It looks so totally amazing. The curtains are coming down and the Earl Cater pic in the concourse outside Rockpool Bar & Grill looks fab. The Bar is so beautiful and fits the lobby so well. I love it, two and a half hours to opening and everything is coming together.  Still waiting for all the oven [...]

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