The EAT LOVE PIZZA Chefs will sizzling away at the grill at their stand F4 serving delicious tastes throughout the day including Boscila Arancini in a cone and ELP’s signature beef skewers.

MasterChef Live Sydney 2011, the ultimate foodie event is back for the second year after a hugely successful event last year. The event highlights include chef demonstrations, cooking schools, Junior MasterChef zone, food and wine matching and an organic market.Learn new tips, tricks and recipes from the professionals and shop from hundreds of providers and producers. Meet the contestants from the past three seasons of MasterChef as well as celebrity chefs and judges George, Gary and Matt.

Species of squid whose side fins run the full length of their bodies (tubes) are identified as calamari and claimed to be more tender the other squids (shorter fins)

Calamari seems to sound more palatable than squid, you’ll most often see squid recipes listed as calamari on restaurant menus.

There are four main squid/calamari species found in Australia:

Loligo Squid – Hawkesbury squid (short side fins)

They have mottled pinky-purple skin, long thin bodies and pointy side fins that run about half their length. Typically, they are about 20cm long and weigh 100g and are found in estuaries along the NSW coast.

Gould’s Squid (short side fins)

They are also known as arrow, torpedo or seined squid. They have smooth, light brownish-pink skin with a purple-blue stripe running down the tube and average 600-800g. They are found around the southern Australian coastline from southern Queensland to Geraldton in WA.

Southern Calamari (full length side fins)

Southern Calamari have mottled purple-brown skin with long, rounded side fins running almost the full length of their body. They are typically about 16cm long, weigh around 150g and are common in coastal bays around southern Australia from Brisbane to Shark Bay in WA, with most of the commercial catch coming from SA.

Northern Calamari (full length side fins)

Northern Calamari have thick, dark brownie-green bodies with long side fins running almost their full length. They average about 15cm, weigh about 500g and are found around Australia’s northern coast from northern NSW to south of Shark Bay in WA. Most of the commercial catch comes from southern Queensland in winter.

Set in a 18th Century colonial building in The Rocks and overlooking a picture-postcard view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, Wolfies ticks all the boxes for a superb Father’s Day lunch. Specialising in the finest quality Australian beef, as well as a range of other modern Australian dishes, guests at Wolfies enjoy an exquisite dining experience every time.

Choose from our mouthwatering menu including Rib Eye, Sirloin, kangaroo or pork ribs or for the less carnivorous pan-fried barramundi or spaghetti with Tiger Prawns.

Perfect for groups and welcoming to every member of the family – celebrate just how great your Dad is with Father’s Day at Wolfies.

Leading our restaurants team is our Restaurant Reservations Manager, Donna Madden.

Donna is responsible for the general running of all bookings, both group and a la carte. Speak to Donna to book a group booking.

Working with Donna is our Reservations Coordinator – Restaurants, Alana McAleer.

Alana supports Donna and co-ordinates all the bookings with menus, cakes and the finer details for group bookings.

Discover how easy it is to make a booking with Dockside Group restaurants! And, if you make a booking before the end of September for 10 or more people you’ll receive a $50 gift voucher.*

*Terms and Conditions apply. Must be a minimum of 10 people dining, voucher valid for three months only, valid for Waterfront, Wolfies and Italian Village restaurants.

For bookings under 10 people, our new online booking capabilities make planning an event with us stress-free! You can view upcoming events and specials in our online calendar and plan ahead. Simply choose a date and time that suits and you will have a booking within a matter of minutes!

Whilst cooking, the highly experienced chefs spoke about the freshly-sourced products including lamb from the Riverina, New South Wales and scallops sourced from the South Coast of New South Wales. Everyone in the audience enjoyed a taste of the exquisite canapés, which make up part of a diverse menu served at events at Dockside Group’s eight venues and restaurants.

To celebrate our involvement in ABEExpo 2011, Dockside Group is offering several exclusive value-for-money packages at our venues. For more details on these packages visit our special offers page.

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Sunday 4 September

Make this Father’s Day one to remember with a special lunch or dinner in the best dining position in Sydney – at Wolfies, Waterfront and Italian Village in The Rocks.

Enjoy a delicious three-course lunch or dinner surrounded by your family with delightful freshly-plated European and modern Australian options. The restaurants, all with stunning panoramic views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, are set to make your Dad’s special day unforgettable. Get in quick as bookings will fill up fast.

Make Dad smile with a Dockside Group dining gift voucher – the ultimate Father’s Day gift!

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Discover the range of tasty food we deliver at Dockside Group events. Read the full menu for the Dockside Group stand.

Redesigned based on customer feedback, the new website has a fresh design and is easy on the eye, simplifying the information with easier navigation with increased usability and functionality. This cleanliness of the site is a result of the beautiful high quality images, taken professionally for the purpose of the new website. This focus on photography captures the venues and restaurants at their very best and delivers a clear understanding of the range of spaces the company delivers throughout its eight venues and restaurants. On top of this, exquisite food photography and candid personal shots give visitors a clear insight of the range of celebrations Dockside Group caters for.

The Dockside Group weddings website has been transformed into a site that is incredibly user friendly and informative for the bride and groom who need to know everything. This website includes over 50 real wedding stories where previous Dockside Group brides and grooms share the story and pictures from their day, information on things to consider in the lead up to your wedding, information on suppliers, menus, packages, directions and a detailed gallery with over 300 photos.

Dockside Group have implemented new technology to channel their databases. Users can now sign up to the mailing list automatically and the site has the capabilities to take credit card payments and book online. On top of all this, the new website now has a Google maps function in all of the Contact Us pages for the user to receive directions from their home to the venue and detailed parking information for each of the venues and restaurants.

On Sunday, Italian Village hosted a stall serving delicious hot meals and snacks to festival-goers in Campbell’s Cove while they also indulged in a sensory overload of music, tastes and experiences. The restaurants welcomed large numbers of people who sat down to enjoy a hearty winter meal while soaking up the nostalgic surroundings of Sydney’s rich heritage.

Visitors to the festival experienced the world in a day with divine taste sensations in four global regions: The Orient, The Continent, The Latin Quarter and The Oasis.

Free entertainment included lion and dragon dancers, belly dancing, sword dancing, the Sydney French Choir and the Sydney Youth Orchestra. This year, guests to the festival could learn everything they ever wanted to know about coffee at specialty coffee master classes or find out what their future held with leaf tea readings.