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Rockpool Consulting Visit Santos

By Kate Barker, Rockpool Consulting.          Last week Jess I visited Santos to look at some ideas for nut and muesli mixes for the Qantas Domestic lounges. It has to be one of the most rewarding parts of our job that we are able to visit so many different suppliers who absolutely love what [...]

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Qantas Recipe Request

Every once in a while we receive recipe requests from Qantas flyers who have enjoyed one of our dishes in-flight. If you have tasted one of our dishes on a Qantas flight and would like to request a recipe, just head over to the Qantas Recipes Page on our website. This request was sent through by Jake, [...]

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Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix

Well it wasn’t quite the finish we wanted wth Australia’s own Mark Webber in 5th place, but better luck next time as they say! We’ll be yelling from back here. Red Bull and McLaren asserted their authority as always!    Up in the Qantas Suite, we were serving a selection of dishes celebrating an amazing [...]

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Qantas launches new domestic experience

   Sydney, November 18th, 2010: Qantas today launched its new domestic flying experience, with a new domestic food and wine program and the official launch of Next Generation Check-in.  Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the launch of Next Generation Check-in and a number of enhancements across the domestic network from this week will exceed customer’s [...]

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QANTAS 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS     The Qantas 90th birthday dinner on Friday night was an enormous success. Everyone loved the menu and there was a feeling of great celebration and pride in the room…or hangar, as such. Stix Catering were fantastic and a huge thanks to them for such wonderful work. Thanks too to my [...]

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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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  LOBSTER AND SOBA NOODLE SALAD WITH SESAME SOY DRESSING You no doubt saw the Masterchef episode last night where our fearless leader Neil Perry took contestants on a journey to the Galley of one of Qantas’ beautiful A380 aircraft.  He and Qantas CEO Alan Joyce sat on the judging panel to taste the fruits [...]

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Qantas Product Tasting – Eurng Luang Thai Curry Sauces

Part of our job with Qantas sees us look at lots of different manufactured products.  Some good, some not so good and every now and again a real star! We generally get the team at Rockpool and Kate’s fine palate together to assess these things.  Just recently we had a look at a range of [...]

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A Christmas Message from Neil

I would like to wish everyone a great Christmas and New Year.  Rockpool Group employees, thanks heaps for an amazing year, particularly the last few weeks. You slaved away and made the restaurants better. To all our wonderful customers out there, thanks so much for all your support, I hope you have a wonderful day [...]

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Steamed Whole Mud Crab with Aioli

Rockpool News – December 2009 – Christmas Edition Serves 4 4kg live mud crabs Extra virgin olive oil Lemon juice Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper ½ cup chopped Italian parsley Place your mud crabs in the freezer. This puts them to sleep and is the most humane way to kill them (it will [...]

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