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Brent Savage (left) and Bentley Group’s Nick Hildebrandt at one of their other projects, Brasserie 1930.

Team behind Monopole to open 120-seat grill at exclusive tech club

Airtasker founder Jonathan Lui and Aussie Angels chief executive Cheryl Mack are among the backers of private club The Pillars, which will offer ice baths, a roof terrace and a grill from Bentley Restaurant Group.

  • Scott Bolles
The Grounds Coffee Factory In Eveleigh.

The 10 most exciting new restaurant, cafe, bakery and bar openings of spring

Your hospitality hit list, featuring a bar with natty wines and fancy sandwiches, a locomotive-themed cafe and a subterranean Italian restaurant.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Kingsley Smith at China Diner in Bondi.

Why this ‘too big’ Bondi restaurant is slashing seats to survive

China Diner is closing its Hall Street doors to make way for a beachside branch of restaurateur Ibby Moubadder’s Henrietta chicken shop.

  • Scott Bolles
MCA

‘Not everyone’s going to like it’: MCA’s rooftop cafe to reopen as luxury diner

Sandwiches and coffee at one of Sydney’s most spectacular waterfront sites will make way for a revolving door of big-name chefs.

  • Scott Bolles
Soi 38 restaurant’s owners Tasha Piyaphanee and Top Piyaphanee outside the restaurant in a carpark.

Melbourne’s favourite Thai restaurant is exiting the car park, and adding a second venue

Melbourne’s best-known Thai restaurant is about to move, with a new home that’s less hidden but holds plenty of other perks.

  • Emma Breheny
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Hugos Lounge in its heyday.

Celebrity hotspot Pelicano bar to be reborn at former Hugos Lounge site in Kings Cross

Restaurateur Andrew Becher’s reboot will have a coastal Mediterranean menu with a strong Italian bent.

  • Scott Bolles
Computer render of The Eve Hotel, which opens at Redfern in November.

Redfern’s cool new hotel opens soon. The team behind Bistecca invites everyone to eat there

“If it goes belly up it’s on us,” says Liquid & Larder co-owner James Bradey of plans to open an all-day lobby eatery and a Mexican rooftop restaurant.

  • Scott Bolles
“By 9.30pm restaurants are done,” says Maurice Terzini.

‘It’s coming back’: Why Icebergs’ Maurice Terzini is staking his money on Kings Cross

Three new reasons to visit the famed strip include a cabaret bar, an Italian-leaning wine bar rumoured to be by the Fratelli Paradiso crew and an ‘exciting’ tenant at the former home of Gourmet Life.

  • Scott Bolles
The Odd Culture Group plans to open Bistro Grenier on King Street. L-R: Sabrina Medcalf, James Thorpe, Nick Zavadsky, and James MacDonald.

King Street is about to get its first French restaurant, and it’ll be cooler and cosier than most

Odd Culture Group has announced plans to open Bistro Grenier, serving lesser-known French classics in a cosy converted loft.

  • Bianca Hrovat
An architectural render of Il Mercato Centrale, in Melbourne’s Collins Street.

What to expect at Il Mercato Centrale, the CBD’s $20 million Italian food hub opening next month

Get set for a mozzarella lab, piped-to-order-cannoli, freshly churned gelato and more at this three-level Collins Street food destination with room for 3000.

  • Tomas Telegramma