Neil won't kneel

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The knives are out.

Neil Perry, whose Rockpool restaurant was downgraded from three hats to two in the newly-released SMH Good Food Guide Awards, is not happy.

Read more on the SMH story here.

Edit 12.50am 8 Sep 05: Read Neil's full response to the awards here.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

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posted by Anonymous on 9/07/2005 08:30:00 am

7 Comments:

At 9/07/2005 10:11 am, deborah said…

This confirms my belief that all this fuss is really about politics and ego's.
At 9/07/2005 6:44 pm, Anonymous said…

You can read Neil Perry's full response to the awards here
At 9/08/2005 12:43 am, Anonymous said…

Power trips or not, I agree with evans comments regarding rockpool.
It's a pity though.
At 9/08/2005 11:19 am, Ed said…

I've been treated very badly there. And so was John Lethlean from The Age a couple of years ago. Coicidentally we had a goalso yesterday at Tomatom.com. I'll ad a trackback to this dicussion now.
At 9/09/2005 9:36 am, krangsquared said…

We love the food at Rockpool! It was my first time in an upmarket restaurant in Sydney, and had a few "oh my god!" moments during our dinner.

However, I found some of the staff a bit obsessive compulsive with the placement of the napkins. I went to the loo, left the napkin on my seat, then I was told one of the staff took it, folded it, and put it on the table, and then another went by and moved it around again. This happened a few more times while we were there. What's up with that?
At 9/09/2005 4:56 pm, Ed said…

On the subject of reviews, The Age Good Food Guide apparently gave Vue de Monde three chefs hat but didn't get to eat in the newly opened fully working restaurant - just the old one in the old location. We will email them on this on Monday morning and seek a comment.
At 9/10/2005 7:22 am, Ed said…

In Melbourne one reviewer deducts two pints if the napkins are paper. There's something good about a proper one.