Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney

Overview

Rockpool Bar & Grill is glamorous and over the top — making it a fab spot to really treat yourself. Nested in the grandiose surrounds of the City Mutual Building's art deco interior, dining at this place is an experience to say the least. A marbled open kitchen exposes spunky chefs sweating under heat lamps, atmosphere is aplenty, and the wine selection is more like a bible than list. But what you're really here for is some of Neil Perry's wham bam steak. Loosen your belt buckles, folks, because you ain't leaving without ingesting at least 250g of juicy beef. Word.

But before the eating bonanza begins, we recommend you perch at the bar for a couple of beverages. The wine list is over 145 pages long, covering red, white, rosé and fortified drops from across Australia and beyond to Europe, the US, South America and Asia.

Move into Rockpool's dining room — it's here where they let the games begin. Start with a half dozen Sydney Rock oysters, the Iberico jamon with Piquillo peppers, olives and pickled onions, or the yellowfin tuna with lemon and Davidson plum. If one had to play the singling out game, we'd call the jamon.

From the woodfired grill, there's a neat selection to choose from. Here, we're talking about beef of only the finest quality, of course. The Cape Grim dry aged 36-month-old grass-fed fillet is a lean cut, almost completely without fat and quite possibly what they had in mind when they coined the phrase, "melts in your mouth". Then there's the rib-eye on the bone for the bottomless pits among us. Don't be ashamed, be proud. Add to these a side of potato puree and charcoal-roasted pumpkin and sautéed padron peppers with garlic and sherry vinegar, and you've what we call an almost unchallengeable meal.

Rockpool Bar & Grill deserves every last sliver of hype it gets. Steak is its language and warm hospitality its philosophy, so go on, spoil yourself. It's worth every penny.

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