A new breed of venues is turning up the amp on both the food and music in Sydney.
With a posse of heavyweight hospitality groups moseying into town with new music-centric venues, will fresh oysters and mojitos prove the white knight for Sydney’s live music scene?
Good Food can reveal Odd Culture Group has zeroed in on a sprawling site on York Street in the Sydney CBD that will include a restaurant as well as a performance space.
And Swillhouse, the powerhouse group behind Restaurant Hubert and Alberto’s Lounge, also has live performance in its sights with a new venue opening mid-year.
Those familiar with the project say it has a working title of Caterpillar Club and prime turf near the Martin Place precinct.
In the past, Sydney diners would have been lucky to score shoddy soup at live music venues, where the menus felt less about food and more about circumventing licensing laws. But a new breed of venues is turning up the amp on both the food and the music.
Tiva opened last October, the basement bar on King Street in Sydney’s CBD dishing up live music four nights a week. Customers tuck into caviar, bug rolls and serious cocktails with a spread of jazz, blues and “left-field” live music.
