Shirts and shoes are optional at Sandy’s, a takeaway salad and sandwich shop by the team behind breezy wine bar and diner Bar Elvina (which is right upstairs).

The menu of sandwiches – crafted by co-owner and chef Jesse McTavish (ex- Kettle Black in Melbourne, North Bondi Fish) – includes a chicken schnitzel option stuffed with bacon-jam mayo, Caesar dressing and cress, and a Wagyu pastrami, cabbage slaw, grilled pineapple, smoked butter and cress situation. But the standout might just be the prawn dog: a hotdog bun jammed with king prawns, cress, pickles and cocktail sauce.

There are also four salads, including one with green tea soba noodles, mint, peanuts, shallots, pickled ginger, tofu, sesame soy dressing and raw vegetables, most of which come straight from a customer’s farm in Terrey Hills. The team also picks ingredients from its rooftop garden.

Most of the produce that informs the menu here is supplied by close friends of the business. Cold-pressed juices come from Jesse’s friend’s farm in Dandenong, and the Tombucha kombucha is from who brews behind the butchers up the road.

The space’s original terracotta floors have influenced the design, with the bar wrapped in western red cedar and topped with a Turkish pink marble. A cantilever window opens to the street in school-canteen style.