William Blue Dining in The Rocks serving three-course fine dining meal for less than $50

EVERYONE wants to enjoy a three-course fine dining meal — but it often comes at a big cost. Now, a top-rated Sydney restaurant is offering it for less than $50.

HOW can a top-rated Sydney restaurant serve up three fine-dining courses and give you change from $50? By staffing it with students.

William Blue Dining in The Rocks is one of the best-value eateries in town. It charges less than some finer diners do for a single steak.

Run by hospitality students, it ranks number seven out of nearly 5000 restaurants on review site TripAdvisor.

Student chefs Rosie Arcadi and Lauren Coulter are just some of hospitality chefs working in William Blue Dining. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Students at William Blue College of Hospitality Management spend half their time in the class room and the other on the floor of the restaurant or in the kitchen.

Run through Torrens University Australia, it offers courses ranging from diplomas to degrees.

Director Anthony Mitri said when the restaurant relocated from North Sydney to the former Rockpool site on George St in 2014, it had higher visibility and students had to pick up their game.

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A scallop dish that is created at the restaurant. Picture: Tim Hunter.

The three course meal changes every six weeks. Picture: Tim Hunter.

“We get lots of walk-in. About 50 per cent of diners don’t realise it’s a training restaurant,” he said. “We are over the moon with our rating on TripAdvisor. Chefs have a high standard and it’s fantastic for us being a student-run restaurant.”

The restaurant serves about 60 diners a day, charging $43 for a three-course meal, which changes every six weeks.

Trainee chef Lauren Coulter, 20, said the rating “proves the course’s reputation and that we can uphold the standard we had in our training.”