Ex-Soho House Head Chef To Open Casual-Chic Joint In Sydney

Sydney, whet your appetite: there’s a new restaurant setting up shop in Waverley and it comes straight from LA.

Ex-Soho House Chef Amanda Gale – who recently spent eight months in West Hollywood launching its restaurant NAVA – is launching her own casual eatery Pheast next week.

Cancel (and then remake) your brunch plans, mates – this place is BYO (for now).

Gale brings her ridiculous resume (Rockpool, COMO Hotels & Resorts, Soho House etc) to a paired back menu that focuses on veggie-centric dishes, sustainably caught seafood, and pastured meats. Globally inspired, locally sourced, that kind of thing. Side of ethics with ya’ John Dory, you know?



There’s more than a few elements of NAVA in the menu, which was all about Middle Eastern dishes designed to share.

Pheast is keeping with the share plate thing, but incorporates elements of Gale’s 16 years of travel, combining flavours from South East Asia, the Caribbean, Miami, London and LA. The idea is to serve up food that “doesn’t demand too much attention” and lets the ingredients speak for themselves.

“My cuisine draws it inspiration from reminiscent flavours, from times & places, lessons learnt from the wonderful chefs I have had the privilege of working with,” she says. “Chefs who span the globe and have all taught me something about their food & culture – which are intrinsically intertwined.”

And like we said, it’s BY-bloody-O, and any Sydneysider can tell you there’s not many places left that are. BYO brunch? Count us in.

Pheast opens next week on Bronte Rd, with dinner running Tuesday to Saturday 5pm–10pm, and brunch on Saturday and Sunday 10:30am–2:30pm. Have a squiz at the menu here.

Photo: Instagram / Pheast.

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