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Rockpool Classic Dish – Korean-Style Tuna Tartare

This is a dish that is as Rockpool as the Date Tart or Stir-Fried Omelette. Now that the weather’s warming up around the country it’s time to get back into the salads – we reckon this would make a fantastic shared starter or an accompaniment for your next barbecue. Make sure you buy the best quality [...]

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Stir Fried Spanner Crab Omelette

So we’ve teased you with a few photos here and there, now we’re giving you the complete package! One of Neil’s classic dishes, I don’t even know when this first hit the Rockpool menu (we can at least verify that it was on the menu from 1996). Like most great Chinese dishes, this dish is [...]

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Rockpool Truffle Dinner Teaser

Whilst we’re waiting on the pro photos to come back from our man Ted Sealey, we thought we’d give you a little tease of the awesome dinner held at Rockpool Sydney last night… Enjoy our amateur hipstamatic shots!! Full blog story coming next week. The Rockpool bread, lovingly made in-house. The $1,200 bottle of Shao [...]

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Rockpool Menu circa 1996

So we thought we’d take a little stroll down memory lane for this blog… we dove into the media archive here at Rockpool the other day and pulled out one of our menus from what we think is around 1996. That was quite some time ago, so just to refresh your memories this is a quick “1996 [...]

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Truffles

“Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas….” Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste Most chefs will tell you that there is no more highly prized ingredient in the kitchen than truffles (ok, so caviar and foie gras are right up there as well).. We’re not talking about the chocolate [...]

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Making Bread by Hand – Rockpool Sydney

Following on from our post about the hand made butter here at Rockpool Sydney, we thought it would only be natural to write about the sourdough bread we’re also making in house. Making your own bread is definitely a labour of love, and worth every effort. Is there anything more satisfying than tearing open a hot [...]

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New Spice Temple Sydney dishes

Ive been playing in the kicthen at Spice Temple Sydney all morning with Andy and Ben. Ben flew up from Melbourne for a few days and the three of us have been eating our way around Sydney’s fantastic Chinese restaurants for inspiration – tough gig! Stir fried duck livers with assorted mushrooms Stir fried snake beans with [...]

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Rockpool, The Rocks

  What an amazing dinner at Rockpool on Tuesday night. Thank you David Doyle for some of the world’s most wonderful wines - the length and power of the DRC Montrachet 95 was extraordinary, the complete richness and the silkiy tanin of the Petrus 61 out of magnum confirmed this to be one of the greatest wines in [...]

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Ultimate Food!

Trawling back though the great photos of The Ultimate Dinner by photographer Ted Sealey – 9 days ago and it feels like a month already, such is life in the fast lane. A few of my favourites from the night and what a cracking menu it was! Enjoy…       Canapes by Guillaume Brahimi, Guillaume at [...]

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Rose Bay Flood Relief Dinner

Mother Nature turned on her charm last Thursday night – a stunning sunset and beautiful evening. When better then to roll out the kitchens on the promenade at Rose Bay and raise money for those affected by the floods in Queensland, Victoria and NSW.    The brainchild of Michael and Judy McMahon of Catalina, 5 [...]

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