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Lobby restaurant at

NoMad Los Angeles.

Right: Lobby’s

signature bee pollen

and sea salt ice-cream

sandwich. Below

right: Neil Perry.

a 90-seat Mexican restaurant

and late-night Patrón tequila

bar at Sydney’s Circular Quay.

Culinary director Neil Perry has

enlisted Pamela Valdes Pardo,

a chef from Veracruz, to keep

things authentic. Her menu

includes handmade tortillas,

aguachile and enchiladas, plus

tostadas topped with the likes

of seared tuna and mango-chilli

salsa and chicken with Oaxacan

cheese and sour cream. Food is

served until 2am, and there’s a

$100 Millionaire’s Margarita made

table-side with Patrón Gran

Burdeos Extra Añejo tequila.

PERTH Grossi Florentino chef

Guy Grossi opens Garum this

month, his first restaurant

outside Melbourne. The Roman

osteria is the flagship diner

of The Westin Perth (opening

27 April) and will work to a tight

brief of gutsy Roman dishes

such as saltimbocca with

gnocchi alla Romana, suckling

lamb, braised oxtail, and

moretum, a garlicky cheese and

herb spread served with bread.

The wine list, meanwhile, will

home in on the Lazio region.

Roasted, crushed hazelnuts from Piedmont

make up almost 60 per cent of this Nocciole

d’Elite chocolate and hazelnut spread. Pour it

over bomboloni, or dip a spoon when cravings

set in. $19.95 for 250gm.gourmetlife.com.au

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LOS ANGELES A NoMad

hotel has opened on the West

Coast: NoMad Los Angeles,

the second property after the

New York flagship. There

are 241 rooms within the

historic Bank of Italy building

in Downtown, with a rooftop

pool and multiple dining

options. Daniel Humm and Will

Guidara, of New York’s Eleven

Madison Park, are behind the

entire food and drink ofering,

with help from executive chef

Chris Flint (Eleven Madison

Park, NoMad NY). There’s The

Cofee Bar, modelled after a

300-year-old café in Venice,

a library that transforms into a

cocktail bar, and an all-day

lobby restaurant (Lobby) serving

Italian-leaning dishes such

as chicken Milanese, king crab

tagliatelle and smoked eggplant

lasagnette. The hotel is also

doing an LA version of NoMad’s

signature ice-cream sandwich,

this time with bee pollen

and sea salt. The Mezzanine

restaurant is the more formal

dining option; at dinner it’s

black cod with red kale, pears

and horseradish, say, or roast

chicken for two with black trule.

The property is owned by Sydell

Group, most recently behind

The Ned hotel, which opened

in London in January.

MORNINGTON PENINSULA

After launching Pt Leo Estate’s

first restaurant on Victoria’s

Mornington Peninsula, former

Eleven Bridge chef Phil Wood is

onto the second, Laura, a more

intimate, finer-dining option.

Guests have a choice of four,

five or six set courses at lunch

and dinner. Highlights include

Flinders mussels with seaweed

butter, dehydrated tomatoes and

polenta, and John Dory with

pickled chardonnay leaves from

the estate. There are also more

than 600 wines on ofer.

SYDNEY Bar Patrón by

Rockpool is the latest from

Rockpool Dining Group,

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