Snack Bar: A Sunday-Night Lasagne Series, Lizzie Hewson’s Bake Sale and More Food News This Week

What’s on around town

• Matt Moran is leading a Sunday-night lasagne series at Chiswick. From June 14 to July 19, a $55 set menu will get you a slice of lasagne, garlic focaccia, dressed leaves and tiramisu. The lasagne (and the chef) changes each week. First up is Moran with a braised beef cheek serve, then chefs from across Solotel send out their creations. Find $15 wines too. From 5.30pm, bookings encouraged.

• Elizabeth Hewson is popping up at Carriageworks Farmers Market on Saturday June 20. Together with Sonoma, the Saturday Night Pasta darling is baking slabs of Dirty Martini focaccia, bread and butter pudding (made with Sonoma croissants) and a croissant stuffed with apple crumble and custard.

• Corner 75 is adding Friday lunch services to the mix, and we can’t think of a more charming dining room to round out the working week. And in the CBD, weekday-only Euro spot Clarence & V is opening on Saturdays – meaning more opportunities for Stella Roditis’s Euro plates.

• Hit Famelia on Thursday June 18 to taste your way through Chinese wines from the Yunnan region with Leqi Liu. The winemaker will be in-venue pouring her Tinnyu wines in a special flight. From 6pm, bookings encouraged.

• Disco Yum Cha returns to North Bondi Fish from June 6 to August 1. There are $65 and $89 set menus, plus $15 spritzes and a bottomless option.

• Potts Point French dining room Le Frerot has specials most days of the week. Dine on T-Bone Tuesdays for a one-kilogram steak and bottomless fries for $99. It’s designed to share between two, from 5.30pm.

• Urban Wine Walk returns to Sydney this winter, with a winery popping up in venues across a suburb. Hit Cronulla on Saturday August 1 to sip Nashdale Lane glasses at the RSL and Dawning Day at Zinc Bar. Or dip slightly south to Wollongong for Samantha May Wines popping up at Juniper Bar and Valhalla at The Illawarra Hotel. Tickets essential.

• Heaps Normal Health Club is in full swing. Head to the vibey Marrickville bar for anything from Sunday jazz and pop-up dumpling bars with a side of mahjong, to excellent happy hours and parties with Filipino food.

• Did you make it to the Red Rock Deli aperitivo hour at White Horse last week? If you missed it, make your own perfect snack plate to lean into the vibe at home – or try your hand at chef Jun Hwang’s ultra-crunchy Korean fried chicken.

• Oysters in the House is the one-day-only celebration of Sydney rock oysters and Hunter Valley semillon. It’s taking over Shell House on Sunday June 7, with John Susman hosting two sessions, at midday and 3.30pm. Tickets required.

• Surry Hills favourite Yulli’s is going Greek for June. Visit on Wednesday nights for a $48pp banquet that starts with meze, before lemony cauliflower with tzatziki, tofu souvlaki and more. Plus, syrupy loukoumades for dessert. Bookings encouraged.

What we covered this week

• Coming soon: Khanh Nguyen will lead Bentley’s new Southeast Asian grill. It’s one of two new venues from the King Clarence and Watermans team.

• 15 restaurants, bars and cafes that have closed in Sydney in 2026. Including an adored Paddington dining room, a late-night dance bar, a funky Marrickville brewery and two Euro bistros by the beach.

• Beachy locals are devoted to Scandi bakery The Vicar’s Daughter, for its glossy cardamom buns, slow-fermented bread and more.

• A Moment For: the cheffy potato hash at Kiln, which is “like Macca’s, but heaps better”.

• Coming soon: the new Three Blue Ducks restaurant, inside a heritage 1823 farmhouse, is just weeks away – here’s what to expect.

• At Riceface, Chat Thai’s new sibling, flavour-packed lunch bowls start at $15.

• King Street’s new Thai-ish dining room is the spot for house-made rotis, zingy kingfish larb and a particularly excellent omelette.

• Coming soon: A Baba’s Place head chef is opening a Med-leaning dining room (with a wraparound verandah) in Redfern.

You might have missed

• Coming soon: Amuro is opening a Japanese wine bar just one minute up the street – and it’s more than double the size of the team’s saké spot.

• A second outpost for Michelin-recommended Mensho Tokyo hits North Sydney with its signature soup and house-made noodles – plus a venue-exclusive bowl.

• First look: live jazz and vinyl DJs set the mood at Meadow Music Room, Cronulla’s newest bar.