Snack Bar: Half-Price Fabbrica, $6 Drinks at Armorica and More Sydney Food News This Week

What’s on around town

• The team behind The Wine Bar at The International and Shell House have cleaned up at the World’s Best Wine List Awards – receiving Best Short Wine List and Best Medium Wine List respectively.

• Wildflower’s kicking off the fourth installation of its Spring Fling series, where the team invites guest chefs in for a snacky menu. This weekend welcomes Sang by Mabasa for Korean snacks alongside the wild-fermented beers. From midday, bookings encouraged.

• Fabbrica Newtown is celebrating its first anniversary with 50 per cent off bowls of its outstanding cacio e pepe spaghetti and Negronis from Monday September 22 to Thursday September 25.

• Surry Hills brasserie Armorica is making happy hour très chic with $6 glasses of rosé and $6 charcuterie plates from 4pm to 6pm daily. Grab a seat at one of its lush red-leather booths or on the terrace and consider after-work drinks sorted.

• Suntory Bar is in full swing at Prefecture 48. The Tetsuya Wakuda is on snack duty , for a start. There’s a rotating line-up of international bartenders and chefs, with special dishes and drinks alongside all the Prefecture 48 faves.

• Find a $30 wine and pasta combo at Busby’s on Oxford Street, from Monday till Wednesday. The rigatoni revved up with winter greens, kale pistou and pecorino is a good option, next to a house glass. Bookings recommended.

• Thali Tuesdays have hit Kolkata Social in Newtown. Book in for a three-course, nine-dish meal for $45. There’ll be a papad with chutney, chilli chicken and barramundi kalia in the mix, plus more. There’ll be $5 house beers and $9 wines, too. Bookings recommended.

• There are a bunch of boozy events to get on your calendars, Sydney: jazz, Martinis and cheeseburgers at Ester Spirits; a record party a Grifter; sunset cocktails at Pier Bar and a by-the-glass wine list takeover at Attenzione.

What we covered this week

• A day-to-night shake-up for a Palm Beach favourite is coming soon.

• At Tommy Panini ’s new beachy outpost, baked sandwiches arrive like laundry: fresh, crisp folded.

• Where Chefs Eat: Stefano Marano knows a Potts Point “pastry lab” you should know about. Plus, “pretty mean” sandwiches by the beach and his go-to Randwick deli.

• Victor Liong brings his “day one classics” to Lee Ho Fook’s Sydney debut – that means golden tranches of crispy fried eggplant with red vinegar and pickled black fungi dressed in aged black vinegar.

• First look: Bones Ramen

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• The Clam Bar trio takes on the “mother” of all cuisines at Grandfathers , inside a red-lit Angel Place dining room. Find prawn toast crowned in almonds, glowing blue fish tanks and the return of a “grande somm”.