Tag Archives: Wine

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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An evening at Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth

   Australian Gourmet Traveller and Range Rover  invite you to Perth for an exclusive Masterclass Dinner  Let chef Dan Masters take you on a culinary journey  ROCKPOOL BAR & GRILL PERTH  6.30pm for a 7pm start on Tuesday 3 May, 2011.  Cost: $120 per person, including matched wines.  To book, contact Rockpool Bar & Grill on [...]

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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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The Ultimate Dinner 2011

24 March 2011:  Neil Perry, Trish Richards and David Doyle are delighted to announce that The Ultimate Dinner, held last night at their Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney restaurant, raised $280,000 for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.     At the dinner, Perry was joined by three of the world’s leading chefs, Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck, [...]

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Happy 90th birthday Qantas!

Next Friday, November 12th, my Rockpool Consulting team and I head to Hangar 96 at Sydney Airport to help Qantas celebrate 90 years as Australia’s national carrier. What an incredible achievement and we are so proud to be a part of this iconic Australian company.    VIP guests on the night, including of course the [...]

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The Ultimate Dinner Sydney and Cape Kidnappers, NZ – next March

So…our friends at Tourism NZ had this to say today (below)…and what an incredible event it is going to be. Of course, the week prior to this trio heading to the beautiful shoreline of New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay and the reason they are actually on this side of the world at all is that , [...]

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Training, cooking, tasting…

We are in and cooking at Spice Temple! The floor staff are training with wine, beer, cocktails and tea in small groups. The builders still aren’t out and upstairs has a lot of detail yet to finalise. Today we take over downstairs and start food training. Really wish my cold would go away…    The [...]

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The Young Chefs Dinner 2010

    We were delighted and honoured to be the 2010 hosts of The Young Chefs Dinner at Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney on Sunday night, as part of The Crave Sydney International Food festival. Started some 13 years ago by the legendary Janni Kyritsis of MG Garage, this is where the young guns of Sydney’s [...]

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TWR – Opening Day Morning

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TWR – Bar Nears Completion

OK the bar is almost finished, but we have another restaurant to push on with. I feel sorry for the workmen they are giving it their all. Hopeful by next Friday they will be all but finished. I am very thankful for their hard work and determination.  We’d better get in the kitchen and cook [...]

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