WHO IS @rosemary___a?!
Rosemary Andrews is an Australian Pastry Chef, owner of her own business selling Dessert Collections and Whole Cakes on the online platform of Instagram under @rosemary___a
Rosemary is set to open her own pop-up store at 23 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern, Melbourne, in early December 2023.
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Over the years, Rosemary has been described as a gun in the kitchen and a “secret weapon” in the pastry section, by some of Australia’s best chefs.
Maybe you’ve heard of her as the Head Pastry Chef at Attica Summer Camp: the “woman behind the most majestic dessert trolley in collaboration with one of Australia’s best chefs” from ATTICA Summer Camp in 2021.
Rosemary learned her craft working in a variety of bakeries and restaurants, in Melbourne.
Rosemary performed the role of Head Pastry Chef at ATTICA Summer Camp, EZARD & Gingerboy Group Pastry Chef, Bistro Guillaume Melbourne, Hazel restaurant and Head Baker at Tivoli Rd Bakery.
Among the many places Rosemary has worked also includes:
Dinner By Heston Blumenthal, Bread Club Bakery, Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne, Spice Temple, Rosetta, Laurent Boulangerie and Cobb Lane Bakery over the past 12 years.
Rosemary also spent three months in London in 2016 where she staged at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, The Ledbury and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, working in the pastry sections.
During Melbourne’s 2020 lockdown, Rosemary landed herself a job working full-time at Attica restaurant during their take-away period, baking thousands of cheesecakes, cakes and doing dessert prep, while also balancing a bakery job - definitely keeping herself busy during this period.
Rosemary was then offered full-time employment from Attica management to be Head Pastry Chef of Attica's Pop Up restaurant called Attica Summer Camp, where Rosemary led a team of pastry chefs and collaborated with one of Australia’s best chefs, Chef/Owner Ben Shewry, on the most beautiful and nostalgic dessert trolley.
After Summer Camp ended, and lockdown hit Melbourne again, Rosemary did a week-long Bake Shop at Attica restaurant working with Shewry and the former Summer Camp Pastry Team, then found herself baking her sweets on an online platform, Instagram.
From early childhood, Rosemary has always had a love for baking. In her early childhood years, Rosemary was baking with her mother at every opportunity to make slices, muffins and biscuits, while her grandmother was a huge influence in great home baking, producing dazzling sweets glistening on fine bone china and diamond cake stands every Sunday for afternoon tea.
Rosemary was soon found baking every afternoon after school, whipping up some delights to gift her neighbours, loving the joy on their faces when she knocked on the door to deliver the goods. Her passion soon evolved and saw her working in a commercial kitchen from age 17.
Rosemary decided to follow her career ambitions and moved from her small town in Tasmania to Melbourne in 2012.
After being inspired by MasterChef Australia, buying Gourmet Traveller and Delicious magazines in her teens, working her first job in a cake shop in her small home town, Rosemary knew she wanted to bake.
All Rosemary wanted to do was work in patisseries and restaurants in Melbourne to gain enough experience to one day own her own business.
Rosemary has continued to bake her dessert collections delivering around Melbourne, keeping herself employed while she works on what is next in 2023.
Follow @rosemary___a on Instagram to see what she is baking next.
How did Rosemary's passion of patisserie come about?
Rosemary has travelled to Europe on several occasions seeking inspiration and creativity from the chic patisseries and boulangeries of Paris and London, seeking the best baked goods and training her palate to learn the finesse of European baking art.
Rosemary spent three months in London in 2016 where she staged at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, The Ledbury and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal working in the pastry sections.
Rosemary also attended bread and pastry courses during her time at Bread Ahead Baking School in Borough Market in London.
"I loved my experience staging in London. It was definitely an eye-opening experience for me. I spent a month at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in the pastry section, which was an absolutely amazing experience. The Head Chef is Australian and that was truly inspiring to a young chef coming from Australia and Chef Patron was a female three starred Michelin chef - absolutely wealth of knowledge, and to see that standard of dining in London was incredibly valuable learning curve to me.
I was offered work at these restaurants, and considered the two-year move, but ultimately I decided to return home to my partner, and started working at Dinner by Heston in Melbourne.”
