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Rockpool, one of Australia’s finest steakhouses – and winner of Time Out’s Legend Award 2023 – has launched a new five-course beef tasting menu celebrating wood-fired flavours, the best of Aussie produce and South American flair.
Inspired by executive chef Santiago Aristizabal’s South American roots (he was born in Medellín, Colombia), along with chef Amy Milliner and in-house butcher Cristian Acero, formerly of Buenos Aires institution Don Julio, the menu features premium beef rarely experienced together in the same meal. Guests will enjoy cuts of David Blackmore Mishima, full-blood Wagyu, Cape Grim Black Angus and Rockpool Reserve F1. Carnivores – let’s go.
Menu highlights include ash-baked potatoes with whipped bone marrow (as delicious as it sounds); buttery scotch with deeply flavoured Oaxacan-style mole; grilled rump cap with golden, crunchy arepas, pork-braised beans, bright tomato, jalapeño and coriander salsas, finishing with Rockpool’s take on a carlota cake with lime-clotted Jersey cream and sweet-corn ice cream.
“This menu lets me bring the flavours I grew up with into the Rockpool kitchen and show how they sit alongside Australia’s best beef,” says executive chef Santiago Aristizabal. “I spent time eating my way around South America last year – markets, street food, family restaurants, everything – and those experiences shaped the way each course has been put together. It’s a way for us to draw on those South American influences while highlighting the exceptional producers we’re lucky to work with every day.”
I was lucky enough to get a taste of the menu, and I recommend it for any beef and fine-dining lovers out there – or if you’re low on iron.
Rockpool’s five-course beef tasting menu costs $195 per person, with an additional $120 drinks pairing.
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