Snack Bar: Karen Martini’s Next Move, Pandan Scrolls and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Karen Martini and her partner Michael Sapountsis will take over Bar Carolina, Joe Mammone’s Italian restaurant in South Yarra. Mammone revealed the plans in an Instagram post last week, announcing he was stepping away for personal reasons.

• Hot-Listed Entrecote has brought back its breakfast menu. Three-egg omelettes with soft herbs and gruyere, minute steaks and more are available daily from 8am to 11am.

• Andrew McConnell’s Hot-Listed Flinders Lane restaurant Supernormal is serving a special dumpling menu – including Moreton Bay bug wontons and fried duck egg custard buns – until Sunday October 12.

What we covered this week

• First look: Lilla Bakehouse has one of the CBD’s most inventive bakery menus – with corn matcha lattes and prawn toast rolls.

• A new bakery is moving into All Are Welcome’s old Thornbury space.

• A Japanese knife expert – trusted by some of the city’s best chefs – opens a new shop in the CBS.

• Where chefs eat: Melbourne’s best sushi according to ex-Kisume chef Reki Reinantha.

• This market stall has gem-like Japanese crystal jelly from a former Lux Bite pastry chef.

• Japanese ice-cream shop Kori to open a “grungy” new store.

• Manze opens new sibling bar Boire with Mauritian snacks and lunchtime chicken sandwiches.

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