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Christmas Cracker: Pop-Up Restaurant with Bécasse & Champagne Mumm at Westfield Sydney

Christmas Cracker, a Christmas themed pop-up restaurant with a northern hemisphere Yuletide setting, opened on Level Three of Westfield Sydney this week.

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Christmas Cracker Pop-Up Restaurant

The highlight of the pop-up is the gingerbread bar, made with over 400 squares of gingerbread designed and baked by the Chef Justin North‘s Bécasse Bakery team.

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Gingerbread Bar

Combining food, festivities and bubbles with a shopping experience, Chef Justin North of Bécasse Restaurant has created a signature Christmas tasting plate called the Four Tastes of Christmas.

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The Four Tastes of Christmas

Miniature crab and prawn mayonnaise sandwiches, Macleay Valley suckling ham, a fruit mince pie and tropical fruit pavlova can be enjoyed with a glass of Champagne Mumm Cordon Rouge for just $15.

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The Four Tastes of Christmas with Mumm Champagne

On Friday December 9, the pop-up launched with the team from the reality TV show Bondi Rescue in attendance during lunchtime, offering shoppers and passers-by a photo opportunity.

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The team from Bondi Rescue at the Gingerbread Bar

Guests were served Mumm Champagne, sparkling mineral water with miniature crab and prawn mayonnaise sandwiches and fruit mince pies as canapés.

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The team from Quarter 21 with drinks

Christmas Cracker - Westfield Sydney
Miniature crab and prawn mayonnaise sandwiches

Christmas Cracker - Westfield Sydney
Fruit mince pies

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Chef Justin North at the Gingerbread Bar

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David Jouy (General Manager of Bécasse) and Chef Justin North

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Close up of the hand-crafted gingerbread bar 

Christmas Cracker - Westfield Sydney

The Christmas Cracker pop-up restaurant is located on level 3 of Westfield Sydney, in the same location that held the Champagne Cube by Pommery Pop-Up Bar, and runs from December 8 to 28, 2011.

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About the author

Corinne Mossati

Corinne Mossati is a drinks writer, author of GROW YOUR OWN COCKTAIL GARDEN, SHRUBS & BOTANICAL SODAS and founder/editor of Gourmantic, Cocktails & Bars and The Gourmantic Garden. She has been writing extensively about spirits, cocktails, bars and cocktail gardening in more recent years. She is a spirits and cocktail competition judge, Icons of Whisky Australia nominee, contributor to Diageo Bar Academy, cocktail developer and is named in Australian Bartender Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential List. Her cocktail garden was featured on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia and has won several awards. She is a contributor to Real World Gardener radio program and is featured in several publications including Pip Magazine, Organic Gardener, Australian Bartender and Breathe (UK). Read the full bio here.

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