Good Luck Pinbone waves goodbye
It's time to say goodbye to Good Luck Pinbone. The Kensington pop-up-that-could from chefs Mike Eggert and Jemma Whiteman, and restaurant manager Berri Eggert, will be serving its last house-made icy pole on August 13.
"We always wanted to do a short little pop up," says Mike Eggert. "The idea was only to ever do six to nine months and by August it will have been 10."
Located in a former Anzac Road sushi joint, Good Luck Pinbone was praised by Good Food for its "wonderful wok-fried tangle of classic Chinese cooking and an Indiana Jones attitude of 'we're making this up as we go along'."
"The public and locals have been awesome and if it wasn't for the horrible road works crippling Kensington, we would look to stay in the area but the New South Wales government has made it a ghost town," says Eggert. "The area is awesome and when the government finally finishes its above-ground tram hopefully there will still be great restaurants around."
Good Luck Pinbone will add a $65 set-menu Wednesday service to its opening hours from July 19, which diners can reserve a table for. From Thursday to Sunday the restaurant will remain walk-in only.
And take note, fans of the maple, bacon and pumpkin tart from Pinbone's Paddington days. The signature pastry will make one final appearance at a classic brunch knees-up on August 7 "for hospitality workers or anyone who wants to chuck a sickie", says Eggert.
That classic brunch carte will also feature the team's hangover-slaying fried-chicken sandwich and corn fregola.
"We haven't got any plans for what's next," Eggert says. "We'll take a little holiday and argue between the three of us if we should open a Parisian bistro, a Mexican barbecue joint or a Japanese yakitori and sake bar. We're currently scouting the Australian countryside for an amazing woolshed on a property we can turn into a restaurant. Anyone have one?"
Until that tsukune and taco-slinging woolshed opens, you have five more weeks to get down to Kensington for some of the most original Asian cooking in Sydney.
121 Anzac Parade Kensington, pinbone.com.au
Bookings for Wednesday nights and brunch can be made by contacting info@pinbone.com.au
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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/eating-out/good-luck-pinbone-waves-goodbye-20170630-gx27lc.html