Tag Archives: Qantas

Dan and Phil in LA

The Qantas Spirit of Australia Cocktail Party and Media Lunch has now wrapped up for another successful year and what a fabulous celebration it was. We were all quite jealous of Dan and Phil’s trip with Neil to the city of Angels – working alongside the wonderfully talented team at Craft LA, sampling the offering [...]

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Best ever Australia Day BBQ feast!

Whatever your plans this quickly-approaching Australia Day, it doubtless involves the bbq at some point, right? Bangers and beer?  Prawns and riesling? Something whole and skewered and crispy on the outside? Look…let’s face it. We, as Australians know how to crank it up better than anybody (Kiwis shush, for now!)…and it’s the perfect experiment in [...]

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Rockpool and Qantas at Craft, Los Angeles

With the Qantas Spirit of Australia cocktail party done, dusted, tweeted, facebooked and shared to within an inch of it’s glossy cocktail-suited life, Neil, Dan and Phil moved onto Craft LA – Tom Colicchio’s fabulous diner where many a Rockpool staff member has enjoyed a bite to eat over the years.    Qantas hosted a [...]

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The Qantas Spirit of Australia Party, Los Angeles

Every year Neil, and his team head to the City of Angels in the name of Qantas Airways, and spread the joy of their food to the adoring masses. Last night in LA, it was the Qantas Spirit of Australia Party. Neil, along with Rockpool on George head chef Phil Wood and Rockpool Bar & [...]

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The year in review, Rockpool 2012

It was a great year. A mammoth year. Couldn’t forget it in a long time, even if we wanted to, which we don’t…well, maybe bits and pieces, but overall – we say 2012 rocked our socks off! The Rockpool family had weddings and babies, we published books, won awards, played host to culinary luminaries, served [...]

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Neil’s 10 favourite dishes of 2012

We like this little exercise. Take 1 chef. Send him around the world to eat and report back. Ok, so it wasn’t quite like that, and yeah yeah we know, tough gig but someone has to do it right? The boss visited a plethora of countries, cities, villages, restaurants in 2012 and here is his [...]

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Rae in Hawaii

And so we begin to farewell the fabulous year that was 2012, and start to think about the new year and all the great opportunities before us…where will we go? What will we do? Who will we meet? Will it be an epic year of life changing experiences and extraordinary adventure, or one of gentle [...]

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Roger in Sweden, Connecticut and beyond

A little while ago, you may remember, Roger from Rockpool Consulting kindly took us (vicariously as such) to dinner at ‘Dinner by Heston’ and onto L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon. Well…he’s back with more torture. He’s been to Sweden…and onto Connecticut. He’s done burgers and lobsters and apples and chanterelles, and he’s washed it all down with [...]

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Kitchen covet

In Neil’s December Column for Qantas  The Australian Way magazine, he talks about his favourite kitchen gadgets…good reading for those stuck on gift ideas for their favourite foodie. Beautiful blades, things that go whizz, charcoal barbecues and pressure cooker biz – these are a few of Neil Perry’s favourite kitchen things. I’m asked time and [...]

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Aspiring and inspiring – careers in hospitality

Terry Higgins heads up the Rockpool Consulting team for Qantas – overseeing every little thing from start to finish, with the eagle eye of a woman who has years as a Rockpool Restaurant Manager under her belt. She’s the ‘go-to’woman’ in the Rockpool group when we are doing service training 101. If it doesn’t pass [...]

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