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After the breakfast and lunch success of café at Lewers, located at the Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Ross Dobson decided Penrith was in need of somewhere to eat at night. So he and old school mate Jane Jeffrey have opened The Union, a tapas style food and wine bar, right in the heart of Penrith.
Dobson is the author of eight cookbooks, with his no-nonsense barbecue book ‘fired up’ winning its category in Australia for the prestigious Gourmand International Cookery Book Awards, going on to Paris this year to vie in the finals. Dobson is also one of few Australians to have his books and recipes featured in The Guardian’s Observer Food Monthly.
Jeffrey trained at the innovative Kurrajong café in the eighties and has since run a successful catering business in the Blue Mountains.
Dobson and Jeffrey will be employing the talented Aaron Bernecki (Becasse) as a chef and Sophia Bernecki (Restaurant Como) as front of house.
The Union will serve up fresh and simple small plates of food utilising local produce and suppliers. Local prosciutto, salami and Trunkey Creek and Megalong Valley products, olives and olive oils from Ryalston will litter the menu.
Dobson will continue his relationship with the Penrith art scene as The Union will exhibit abstract works on loan from the permanent collection of The Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest.
The Union is on the first floor of one of Penrith’s few remaining landmark heritage buildings in what has been a restaurant for over forty years, with century old floorboards and fireplace still intact.
The Union will cater for pre theatre crowd as it just across the road from The Joan and Q Theatre.
The Union
Level 1,
Union Lane, opposite the Union Road carpark
Penrith 2750
Wed – Sat 5pm till 10pm
licensed
Bookings: 02 47214501
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