Like a Rockpool

11.14.06

Ponytailed chef Neil Perry has broken into Melbourne with Rockpool Bar & Grill, an ambitious extension of his famous Rockpool back in his native Sydney. Opened last month, the new menu focuses on meat from grass-fed beef and offers the only dry-aged variety in Australia from David Blackmore, the Australian who supplies full-blood wagyu to the likes of Thomas Keller. The bar menu, meanwhile, features a wagyu burger, which Perry claims is the country’s best, and homemade spaghetti with wagyu ragu. It’s unclear what Melbourne will make of it, but Sydney diners are reported to be jealous.

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