Tag Archives: Trish Richards

A few small hiccups

Walking into The Waiting Room and Spice Temple Monday afternoon did not fill me with confidence.  We are a long way behind where I expected to be after feeling so confident on Thursday. The bar is in no way going to be ready for the staff to start cleaning down and stacking the bars. Plan B; we [...]

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20 days until the Spice Temple doors open!

Hot on the heels of The Waiting Room is Spice Temple, and it needs to be as it is slated to open 10 days after TWR. The carpet is going down, the kitchen is going in and should be finished by next Sunday. The furniture has all arrived and the lighting will be put in [...]

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Spice Temple Melbourne – progress report

The building has hit fever pitch. The tiling is done on the kitchen floor, stainless panels in next week. The exhaust system is going up then the ceilings can go in. Kitchen equipment arrives on the 15th. Spice Temple will be up and running in the next 6 weeks…believe it, yes it will happen!!

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Spice Temple – Good Food Guide 2011

 Our review as seen in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011 Spice Temple, 10 Bligh Street, Sydney Telephone: 02 8078 1888 1 hat – 15.5/20 From the startling front door with its alluring animated imaging to its starkly pale bar and low-lit, night-clubby, basement dining room, Spice Temple is the modern Chinese place [...]

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Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney – Good Food Guide 2011

 Our review as seen in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011 Rockpool Bar & Grill, 66 Hunter Street, Sydney Telephone: 02 8078 1900 2 hats – 16.5/20 wine list of the year It may be sacrilege to say this in Sydney, but who needs harbour views? Neil Perry’s green-marbled art deco showstopper boasts [...]

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Rockpool – Good Food Guide 2011

Our review as seen in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011 Rockpool, 107 George Street, The Rocks Tel: 029252 1888 2 Hats – 17/20 Turning 21 is a monumental landmark and this dame has certainly aged magnificently. While owner Neil Perry ventures forth on his many global food adventures, he can rest easy [...]

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Wine List Awards for Bar & Grill Melbourne

Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne wins four awards at Fine Wine Partners/Gourmet Traveller WINE’S  2010 Wine List of the Year Awards 5 August 2010: At Monday night’s announcement of Fine Wine Partners and Gourmet Traveller WINE’s 2010 Australian Wine List of the Year Awards, Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne scooped four major awards including ‘Overall [...]

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Rockpool – Best Restaurant

Rockpool (The Rocks) win TIME OUT SYDNEY BEST RESAURANT OF 2010 award. We had some great news last night. Time Out magazine voted Rockpool the best restaurant in the city. It is a huge congratulations to Phil and Penny and their respective teams. What a fantastic thrill for the guys.  Now we just have to [...]

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Rockpool Bar & Grill's Grand Award

Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney wins top international wine list award Restaurant makes history winning Wine Spectator Grand Award 15 July 2010:  Leading wine and lifestyle magazine, New York based Wine Spectator has announced Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney as the first ever recipient in the Southern Hemisphere to receive a Grand Award in the [...]

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News from the West Coast

It has started this week. The Perth site is in clearout mode and will be back to bare concrete on all surfaces by the end of next week. I had my last conversation with the kitchen designers and all is perfect, it will go out to tender next week. All my beautiful Electrolux equipment is [...]

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