Rockpool Bar & Grill

Ph: 8648 1900; shop 1, CROWN COMPLEX, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank 3006 www.rockpool.com

Modern Australian, $$$ +
Open Lunch 7 days noon-3pm Dinner 7 days 6pm-11pm; Licensed; AE DC MC V
Chef Neil Perry & Khan Danis (7-11-07) Owner Neil Perry & Patricia Richards (7-11-07)

Other published opinions

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 "Don't be fooled by the executive-blokesy leather and stone look and reputation for all things beef - Neil Perry's popular Crown diner is as meticulous with the seafood, vegies and sweet stuff as it is with its admittedly brilliant steak"

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide Score: ** "Catherine Adams On the one hand, it's unapologetically clubbish and rarefied, expensive and exclusive, staffed by an army of smartly attired wait-staff who glide smoothly around the mood-lit dining room"

Age Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 17/20, Two Hats "Vittoria Restaurant of the Year With its dappled lighting, luxe interiors, hordes of waiters and army of naked chefs, has Neil Perry Australia's best-known chef - created a rather delicious monster? Rockpool is barge: everything about it, from staff and diner numbers and prices, is big"

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "AUSTRALIAN Melbourne's Rockpool - glamorous, large, international - s the biggest project yet for Neil Perry"

The Age John Lethlean, 18-12-2006 Score: 16.5/20 "there is no question over the product. After initial months of rotating staff (inevitable), inadequate equipment, uncertainty with suppliers and unanticipated shortfalls in certain lines such as aged meat (a fairly major part of the joint's schtick), RB&G has emerged a seriously good dining experience. The cynical might suggest a certain international blandness and remind you of its connection to a hotel (geographically, at least). But this is a polished, grown-up, sophisticated, accessible, impeccably comfortable and well-run operation."

Herald Sun Dining Out, Stephen Downes, 28-11-06 Score: 14/20 "As Melbourne gets richer we'll get more exclusive restaurants. Rockpool is a new entry on the list, and only some of us will be able to afford to eat there. The wine list s enormous, but hideously expensive. For instance, d'Arenberg's Laughing Magpie shiraz viognier costs $60. (Dan Murphy's has it for $24.90.) Luckily, I O table whites and nine reds are sold by the glass, but, again, at mostly hefty prices."

Herald Sun Eat, Bob Hart, 4-11-06 "THERE is probably no such thing as the perfect meal. But a lunch eaten here last week came dangerously close.Incomparable ingredients, ingeniously cooked, simply presented and available with wines by the glass that are worthy of the food.And all of it offered in a warm and decidedly blokey environment on which squillions have been spent, and through which multi-squillions should be earned."