Rockpool offers premium burgers

Rockpool Dining Group now has a premium burger offering.

Black Label Burger Project will be located in Grosvenor Place.

While similar to the Burger Project, the new eatery replacing Sake Jr goes one step further bridging the gap between casual and fine dining.

Black Label Burger Project offer seven “deluxe” burgers, healthy salads, craft beer and shakes.

Burgers include the signature Black Label beef burger.

It is made with 75 per cent aged Cape Grim grass-fed beef combined with 25 per cent triple-smoked bacon.

Another offering is the buttermilk-brined, free-range fried-chicken burger and a chickpea and zucchini vegetarian option.

The beef patties are being upgraded from 140 grams to 220 grams which makes them meatier than what’s on offer at the Burger Project.

“The vast majority of burger venues in Sydney are in the fast-casual market and are designed for a quick grab-and-go lunch,” Rockpool Dining Group’s culinary director, Neil Perry told Broadsheet.

“With Burger Project Black Label, we wanted to elevate the experience to the level of casual fine dining, a concept that is already very popular in the States.”

Perry is particularly enthusiastic about the Native.

It’s an Aussie-style burger. The meat is premium-grade wild-game kangaroo rump and the burger is stacked with a raw beetroot relish, spiced quandong, (desert peach), bush-tomato sauce and lemon-myrtle mayonnaise.

“We use grass-fed beef exclusively in our restaurants, however the next step up from that in terms of sustainability is kangaroo, so I’m really excited to be able to work with this protein,” Perry told Broadsheet.

And apart from operating as a burger bar, the venue offers craft beers, Australian wines and alcohol-spiked shakes.

The drinks list includes a Valrhona chocolate and peanut butter whip, which can be livened up with Hibiki Japanese whisky or Ron Zacapa Centenario rum.

And it offers breakfast with a menu including a morning bowl of Neil Perry’s house-made Bircher muesli. There are also fluffy hotcakes, Mecca coffee and Sonoma pastries.

Leon Getler 29th May 2018.