Even brighter prospects for Sunnys
WHEN Aaron Ratanatray opened Asian street food haunt Sunnys Shop on Prospect Rd last year, he always envisioned it being part of something bigger. And it’s about to be.
WHEN Aaron Ratanatray opened Asian street food haunt Sunnys Shop on Prospect Rd last year, he always envisioned it being part of something bigger. And it’s about to be.
Aaron will take over the space next door and open Rosemont Hall, a food-court style space incorporating several stalls – and eventually Sunny’s – under the one banner.
“The idea is to create a vibrant meeting space for the community where they can hang around and have a coffee and not be limited to one food offering,” he says.
Located in the Art Deco Rosemont Building, the hall will open with one Chinese stall, called Mr Chan.
“It will have a lot of nostalgic Chinese favourites reinvented, like honey chicken and salt and pepper squid, then flip to a more sophisticated menu at night,” Aaron says. “Then (we’ll) hopefully get a liquor licence, some coffee and more stalls.”
Once that’s open, he will shut down Sunnys and reopen it under Rosemont Hall.
“We will punch a wall from Sunny’s and put in more seating and slowly grow it into a back beer garden,” he says.
Aaron, who has grown up in Prospect, says it’s a good time to expand in the area.
“It’s such a family-oriented suburb and it’s a buzzing neighbourhood at the moment with the cinema and everything down the street,” he says.
106B Prospect Rd, Prospect, facebook.com/Sunnys-Shop