107 George Street
The Rocks
612 9252 1888
enquire@rockpool.com.au
reservations@rockpool.com
Lunch Friday & Saturday
Dinner Tuesday to Saturday
It has been many, many years since we last dined at Rockpool. It was certainly before it’s ‘renovation’ and long before we started this blog. We have visited both Rockpool Bar & Grill and Spice Temple many times, yet we have never made it back to Rockpool.
We both still talk about the highlights of that meal. For me it was the ‘Best ever bacon and egg sandwich’; individual components of that dish escape me now, but the flavour and its impact on my emerging palate will never be forgotten. I long to sample that dish again.
For Buggles the highlight was the Passionfruit Souffle, finished at the table with a generous pour of a lush, passionfruit sauce, or was it an anglaise? She can't remember... she just recalls it as one her best dining experiences.
It was this first visit to Rockpool, along with an earlier visit to MG Garage (it was the fanciness of the mini table cloth carpet sweeper that had us agog on that occasion!) that set us on this fine dining adventure…..and we haven’t looked back since.
Ground Level
Overseas Passenger Terminal
Circular Quay West
info@wildfiresydney.com
ph: 02 8273 1222
Sun - Thurs: 12pm - 11pm
Fri: 12pm - 12am
Sat: 6pm - 12am
Wildfire is a restaurant we have been umming and ahhing about trying out for some time. Given some bad experiences of eating out in the Circular Quay precinct we just weren't sure if it would all lead to disappointment and a case of a restaurant that over promised and under delivered. Given our recent fabulous dinner at Mad Cow (another place that claims to really know their meat) we figure we should give it a go.
It is Sunday lunch on the harbour and unfortunately the sky is grey but on arrival we are seated with quite a fantastic view of the Opera House. Wildfire has quite an impressive room and seems very popular with larger groups with a number of families gathering.
88 George Street (cnr Hickson Rd)
The Rocks, Sydney
Mon-Sat: Midday - late
Sun: Midday - 4:30pm
I love a macaron. Who doesn't? Squeak loves French fare. Who doesn't? It seems only natural that we should find oursleves lunching at Baroque Bistro one fair Saturday. We have been desirous of dining here for some time, but just hadn't quite got around to it, but finally we bit the bullet, and before we know it are seated in the open, busy and industrial inspired space that is Baroque with glasses of Prosecco in hand.
21 Hickson Rd
Walsh Bay
Mon - Sun 12pm - 11.30pm
Squeak and I have been haunting the Walsh Bay area now for some years, and in that time have seen a number of restaurants open (and close). It is, no doubt, a prime spot due to the fact that it really is the hub of the Sydney Theatre Company's productions. One place that we regularly return to is Ventuno. This place is in some ways an oddity for this part of town - top location and view, stylish decor, consistently good service and some of the best pizza we've had in a long time. Oh, and I forgot to mention.... really reasonably priced!
Overseas Passenger Terminal,
The Rocks, Sydney 2000
Lunch:
Tuesday to Friday
12 noon - 2:30 pm
Dinner:
Monday to Sunday
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cuisine: Modern Australian
Licensed
Quay is the perfect spot for that special occasion or for impressing interstate & overseas visitors.
Buggles and I are celebrating our 9 years together, so surely an indulgent dinner at Quay was in order.
We have decided that Quay is our 'anniversary' restaurant, we were there last year & again last night.
The night started well with a parking spot virtually outside the door.
On entering the restaurant we are greeted warmly & then swiftly guided to our uptairs table. To say the 280 degree view is spectacular would be an understatement, you feel as though (were it not for the glass) you can reach out & touch the water.
