Coogee Bay Hotel’s hope to add an outdoor kitchen and pizza oven for patrons to enjoy

Wanting to offer more food variety, a much-loved eastern suburbs venue is hoping to add an outdoor kitchen which will be the pizza party patrons can get behind. Read about the plans here.

Coogee Bay Hotel is a popular local pub.

Patrons who hang out at an east Sydney hotel, wishing they had some delicious, greasy pizza to go with their cold lagers as they watch footy in a beer garden, may be about to have their wishes come true.

Privately owned hospitality group C!NC, which operate the local Coogee Bay Hotel, have lodged a development application with Randwick Council with the hope of constructing an outdoor kitchen in its beer garden.

The plan is to have food preparation areas, a gas pizza oven and under bench fridges.

Council documents state the proposed kitchen is in “the public interest” as a way to provide patrons a variety of food.

The proposed pizza oven’s operating hours are between 10.30am and 12am from Monday to Saturday and 10.30am to 10pm each Sunday.

A look at the area as it faces Arden Street. Picture: Randwick Council

It’s set to be tucked away into the corner of the front left-hand side of the beer garden, furthest away from the closest residential dwelling, south of the hotel.

Due to the heritage nature of the pub, as it’s been around since the 1860s when it was a school and later evolving into a hotel in 1873, the developer was required to submit a heritage impact statement.

An overview of the hotel with the yellow square where the outdoor kitchen would be located. Picture: Randwick Council

Location of the proposed outdoor kitchen indicated by the arrow. Picture: Randwick Council

A view from the front of the hotel with the proposed works. Picture: Randwick Council

The statement outlines that the proposed outdoor kitchen will have a “minimal and acceptable impact”.

“The proposed works are confined to a small section of the contemporary Beer Garden … no significant fabric of the Coogee Bay Hotel will be impacted or disturbed from the installation of the pizza oven and bench tops,” it states.

The proposed pizza oven. Picture: Randwick Council

The statement also points out that the proposed benches and pizza oven can be removed from the beer garden if needed.

“The pizza oven and benchtops are freestandings, temporary and removable without any damage or impact to the significance of the heritage item,” it said.

Coogee Bay Hotel has been approached for comment.