Hot List Update: Dinner Is Served at Darlinghurst’s AP Bread & Wine

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This week’s Hot List Activity

• Added: AP Bread & Wine
• Most trending restaurant: Bessie's
• Most trending bar: Letra House
• Most trending cafe: Superfreak

AP opening a wine bar was not on our 2025 bingo card, let alone a wine bar with a pasta extruder and ice cream machine out the back. But that’s what this year’s gifted us, and we’re very happy. The original bakery atop Paramount House – now known as AP House – has been on the Hot List since day one, and while we’re usually against adding successive outlets of a brand to the list, this one’s just so different.

Every AP does things a little differently, of course, whether we’re talking Newtown’s AP Town, CBD pitstop AP Place or cream bun specialist AP Supply in Surry Hills. But Bread & Wine is the first one to do dinner – and it’s not just any dinner.

Check some of the dishes on the opening menu. There’s pasta made from leftover bread. But not just any bread – AP’s fenugreek and sesame loaf. After the nutty spaghettoni is squidged out of the kitchen’s extruder, it’s swirled with anchovies and zucchini, and showered with toasty breadcrumbs. Then there’s a pea vol-au-vent with onion gravy. It’s not just a retro classic, it leans into AP’s obvious pastry-making expertise and signposts more night-time savouries to come, like pate en croute. And for dessert there’s a sorbet of strawberry and umeboshi (salted and preserved ume, an Asian fruit similar to an apricot).

Food this exciting would’ve been enough to land AP Bread & Wine on the Hot List. But drinks during the cleverly named AP … eritivo Hour and dinner service really seal the deal. Gin and vodka Martinis are pulled direct from the freezer, and an iced Carajillo pairs dark rum and wattleseed-infused tequila with cold brew and agave syrup. Then there are 12 wines by the glass, from some of Australia’s brightest new-wave winemaking talents: Tom Shobbrook, William Downie, Jauma and more.

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