| Landmark with interesting possibilities
Cafe Di Stasio will take over an adjoining Fitzroy Street site to produce a new, informal bar and eating space that will be separate from the restaurant dining area yet connected by narrow voids in the party wall. We have become, over the years, a special occasion type of place and it was never meant to be. ONE of the Margaret River wine region's best restaurants, Clairault, is to close this weekend. Also in Perth's CBD, The Trustee, with Ian Curley as consultant chef, has just ended its first week. It's understood the restaurant will reopen but for now most of the staff have been told they would not be re-employed. Hart describes her husband's style as "comfort food with an urban edge". au. Patrick Ryan, a former general manager of local stalwart Balthazar, will run the new restaurant. Helvetica partner Cristina Fego, an interior architect, has taken on the gutting and redesign of what they are calling a "bar and eating house". "The whole thing will be part of subtle change in the dining room, with the menu and wine list. " Cafe Di Stasio will close at the end of October for three weeks. What Andrew McConnell did up the road at Golden Fields is the best thing that's happened to this street in a long time. And the omnipresent Neil Perry with his mega-Italian with a fully imported Italian chef at Melbourne's Crown? We reckon you can put your money on Rosetta. Wilson's last project was the JohnandPeter Canteen at inner Sydney's Eveleigh Carriageworks. WITH all of the US influence belatedly creeping into Australia's food scene, it's not surprising the real thing, New York-raised chef Gregory Llewellyn, is attracting plenty of early adopter chat in Sydney. With my history as a chef you can safely guess the sort of influences you will be able to see through the menu. Check out a rather quirky blog at hartsyard. I want this place to bustle. It's my turn to do something new and interesting. " Di Stasio says the project, which means gutting the neighbouring Japanese restaurant, will cost more than $1 million. Acclaimed installation artist Callum Morton will also be involved in creating a facade for the new place, as will the restaurant's graphics man, David Pidgeon. Says Valvasori-Pereza: "We are not yet giving away the name but it has close ties to us personally and also to Western Australia. " It'll open late next month (more like August), they reckon. Jeremy Prus, recently qualified by the Culinary Institute of America as asommelier, will run an associated wine store. We like the sound of this place. com. You heard it here . |
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Landmark with interesting possibilities
