Double Bay set to deliver the ‘Rodeo Drive’ of restaurant precincts
A street in Double Bay has been described as the Rodeo Drive of Sydney restaurants.
Bay Street has been welcoming high-end restaurants for some time now, with the latest inclusion a new Japanese restaurant and bar.
It will join Neil Perry’s Margaret and soon to open, 140-seat Asian eatery and jazz bar.
The new, yet to be named Japanese venue, is the brainchild of Eddie Levy and Adam Abrams of Matteo fame.
“We’re excited about broadening our footprint in the area we’ve both grown up in,” Levy told Good Food.
The restaurant will open just two doors from Matteo, with the bar to have its own “speakeasy”-style entrance.
The current inclusions on Bay St, look to be just the beginning for this ‘Rodeo Drive’ with Perry to open Asian eatery Songbird around 2024 and California-based luxury home furnisher RH lodging a development application to open a five-level venue in 2025.
Note Perry’s less fancy Baker Bleu and Next Door are also in the area.
Songbird will include Perry’s bar, Bobbie’s which will feature drinks from Linden pride, the man behind New York’s award winning Dante.
“It’s a true village at the throat of the eastern suburbs,” Perry told Good Food of Double Bay’s potential. “It even has its own microclimate. The wind can be howling [in Sydney], but get down here and it’s beautiful and calm.”
Perry said, Bay St will be an attraction all its own.
“There’s the Japanese restaurant and two more restaurant spaces, and we’ll be across the street with the Asian and the jazz bar downstairs.”
Jonathan Jackson, 6th September 2023
