Snack Bar: Two New Happy Hours, a Laneway Barbeque in Chippo and More Local Food News This Week

What’s on around town

• You can now dine al fresco at Vin-Cenzo’s in Darlinghurst. A spritzy Americano with clams casino and melanzana norma? Excellent in the sun.

• Looking for a new happy hour? Head to Bush in Redfern for excellent snacks under $10 and $6 Hawkes lagers. Or hit Bistro George in the CBD, from 4pm till 6pm, for $11 Negronis, a $12 serve of honeyed ricotta and crackers and more.

• For the first time, Sydney-based cultured-meat pioneer Vow has released its Forged smoked quail spread for you to eat at home. The limited run 180-gram jars are available via the website, for local pick-up only.

• Hit Prefecture 48 before Suntory Bar wraps up on Saturday November 8. The Tetsuya Wakuda is on snack duty, for a start. There’s a changing line-up of international bartenders and chefs, with special dishes and drinks alongside all the Prefecture 48 faves.

• Bar Planet has bottled its ripper Dirty Martini. Now it and the bar’s house pour are ready for your freezer – in 500 millilitre and 150 millilitre bottles.

• Pleasure Club presents Tongue Tied, a late-night music series ramping up Sunday nights in Newtown. The nights run from 9pm till 4am, and this Sunday’s the first, with Touch Sensitive headlining.

• A summery run of laneway barbeques is set to hit Kyiv Social in Chippendale – and it kicks off this Sunday. First up, the social enterprise restaurant welcomes Whole Beast Butchery, Sandoitchi, Kolkata Social and more will be cooking, and there’ll be music and a live mural painting, too. From midday till 5pm.

• Lennox Hastie’s Basque wine bar Gildas has new Martini glasses – and they’re locally made stoneware by Poldy Pots. They’re ace at keeping everything on the new three-part Hendrick’s Martini list icy.

• The next laneway pizza party at Ace is on this Sunday, from 3pm till 7pm. Chef Isobel Little will be on the Gozneys with Pizza Oltra’s Drew Huxton, with aperitivo by Marionette Liqueur and Grifter cans.

What we covered this week

• First look: Luigi Panini is the new sandwich window to visit for Nonna’s meatballs, a top-selling porchetta and plenty of local cheese.

• First look: Tuki’s golden syrupy medialunas are only a DM away. The croissant-shaped pastries are a morning staple in Argentina – and the ones made by this at-home baker are a flashback for Sydney’s Argentinians.

• 10 To Book: October’s openings delivered birria tacos, syrupy pastries, Euro bistro plates and more.

• Neil Perry closes Next Door – and Cafe Margaret moves in.

• 11 To Try: cinnamon scrolls are on a tear – and these are Sydney’s best.

You might’ve missed

• First look: one of Sydney’s very best ramen joints is back – bigger than ever on Stanley Street. Find the same Tokyo-men serve, the same jazzy prawn toast and more room to play.

• First look: a scruffy King Street corner is now South End, a Euro diner from an ex-Fred’s head chef, ex-Ester sous and Paul Guiney, who the kitchen pair joke is 750 years old – that’s how much Sydney hospo lore he brings.

• A Moment For: this wave-like lunchtime “lasagne of sorts ” was first seen on the Ester menu. Find it in Darlinghurst.