Who is Neil Perry

Our latest Mater Prize Home lottery is an exquisite three bedroom apartment in the highly sought after Pointcorp development, The Highgate. With stunning uninterrupted panoramic views of the city skyline and only 2km from Brisbane CBD, this apartment is truly a luxury home in the sky! Our beautiful kitchen is designed, and all appliances supplied, by Neil Perry. This includes Neil Perry rangehood, Neil Perry wine fridge, Neil Perry gas cooktop with wok burner and Neil Perry oven.

About Neil Perry

Neil Perry is one of Australia’s leading and most influential chefs. He has managed several quality restaurants in Sydney and today concentrates on his seven restaurants in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, and is founder of the successful “Rockpool” Empire.

Neil’s career in hospitality began at Sails Restaurant at McMahons Point and in Rose Bay. He began starting at front house, but Neil’s love of great food saw him quickly move backstage. By the time he was 24, he found himself gravitating towards the kitchen. He soon realised his passion for cooking by working with, and learning from, chefs such as Stephanie Alexander, Gay Bilson, Damien Pignolet, Steve Manfredi and David Thompson.

In October 1986, he opened the Blue Water Grill at Bondi Beach and took the site from a 20 year failure to an overnight success. In 1989 Neil and his business partner (his cousin Trish Richards), opened Rockpool, with the intention of establishing one of Australia’s finest restaurants. In just six months it was voted Sydney’s best new restaurant in the Good Food Guide and over the years it has won many awards both here and overseas. In October 2006, Neil opened the Rockpool Bar and Grill in the Crown Complex in Melbourne, with Spice Temple and Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney both lifting off in early 2009. October 2010 saw the opening of Spice Temple Melbourne, with Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth opening in January 2011 and Rosetta Ristorante in October 2012.

Neil’s passion, desire and the significance he places on quality produce are evident in all his dishes and the business projects he undertakes. The plentiful awards and honours won by the restaurants that make up the Rockpool Restaurant Group are a testament to this. Rockpool is a previous receiver of Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant of the Year, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year award, and was voted in the top 50 restaurants in the world by UK magazine ‘Restaurant’ seven years running. Furthermore, Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne won The Age Good Food Guide’s Restaurant of the Year award in 2008. Neil’s determined enthusiasm for Australia, food and wine, excellence, travel and recipe books have driven him to where he is today, and he continually strives for excellence of quality in everything he does.

To achieve his quality ambitions, Neil remains to this day a hands on chef, personally selecting ingredients, creating recipes and leading his team by example in restaurant kitchens.

Neil Perry and QANTAS

Neil also heads up a team of seven consultants to Qantas Airways, reflecting his desire to bring great food to all Australians. The Rockpool Consulting team is integral to the food and wine training and communication for all premium flight attendants, and in addition work with Qantas to develop service delivery to reflect a more modern in-flight dining experience. Fly with Qantas and you’ll enjoy one of the finest inflight dining experiences found anywhere in the world.

Neil Perry Kitchen by Omega

Neil Perry had a dream to bring the power, quality and the performance of his restaurant cooking equipment to his own home. This dream has been turned into reality.

Neil and Omega started this revolutionary project in 2012. Neil’s ideas stretched from the essentials of raw cooking performance and functionality to the look and feel of the controls. Omega brought over 30 years of appliance manufacturing and technical innovation to turn the ideas into reality. Today a new brand is born: Neil Perry Kitchen by Omega. Proudly Australian. Ground-breaking, inventive, authentic, and ready to take on the world’s best.

Neil Perry Kitchen ovens are designed with commercial power, functionality and style. They bring a new level of cooking performance into the home. Setting new benchmarks in power and control for domestic appliances, they enable for the first time a true professional cooking experience in your home. Easy clean enamel interiors, and anti-fingerprint stainless steel surfaces guarantee that while your Neil Perry Kitchen oven is a true workhorse, it will always be a beautiful statement piece within your kitchen.

Neil Perry Kitchen cooktops are the ultimate expression of the professional kitchen. The most powerful domestic gas cooktops created drives the heat required to truly achieve restaurant quality results. These cooktops set new standards in the domestic kitchen and allow you to be a professional.

The Neil Perry Kitchen reverse sheer rangehoods will complete every kitchen beautifully with their sleek commercial design. As an essential piece of the kitchen, these rangehoods have the airflow and efficiency to manage the high heat output of Neil Perry Kitchen cooktops. The reverse sheer design also gives maximum headroom, enabling you to get on with the job of turning out amazing food and keep your eyes on the job at hand. Performance first, these rangehoods embody Neil Perry Kitchen.

As Neil Perry is an undeniable wine lover, the range of appliances also includes a dual zone 46 bottle wine cooler. This wine cooler maintains ideal storage conditions for your favourite bottles, ensuring their long term health, meaning you will always have the perfect pairing of wine and food.

Your very own Neil Perry Kitchen by Omega

The Highgate is the first apartment development in Australia to feature Neil Perry’s new appliance range. It is designed to bring a new benchmark in power, performance and beauty to domestic cooking equipment. Bringing the ability to cook like a chef into the home.

So release the professional chef inside you and buy tickets today to win this stunning Highgate Hill apartment, with a professional and stylish Neil Perry Kitchen by Omega.