• Full line-up of Sydney Place laneway dining precinct at Circular Quay revealed

Bentley Group will open Brasserie 1930 in the CBD in March, part of a cluster of incoming restaurants on Bridge Street. With Merivale and House Made Hospitality also joining the party with new venues, Bridge Street hasn't seen this much action since 400 troops from the Rum Corps marched down it to arrest Governor Bligh in 1808.

While Bligh was found hiding under his bed, guests from the soon-to-open Capella Sydney hotel – located in the heritage-listed Department of Education building – will be able to comfortably slip from their sheets to dine in-house at Brasserie 1930, the collaboration the latest restaurant from Bentley's Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt.

"The heritage dining room is one of the most beautiful we've seen, and our intention is to create a Sydney institution," Savage says. "The menu will hero brasserie classics done our way."

Merivale's addition to the strip will slide into the basement space in the historic Burns Philp & Co building, where Fratelli Fresh previously traded, a site Justin Hemmes snapped up in 2021. The yet-to-be named restaurant will open in the first half of 2023.

Good Food can also reveal the team from Circular Quay mega-venue Hinchcliff House has nabbed space at Quay Quarter Tower, on the upper eastern slope of Bridge Street, where they will open Club Martinez in autumn 2023.

Taking inspiration from St Tropez beach clubs, Club Martinez will feature a sprawling terrace bar with harbour views. The French menu will be directed by Alex Wong from Lana, with Andrea Sonnante (Sagra) its head chef.

In March, Allta and Funda restaurants will open on the corner of Bridge and Pitts streets, in another positive food jolt for the strip. And there's more opening action a block north at Sydney Place. The new precinct will start rolling out new venues from March, with Federico Zanellato's Lode, Sunday by Morgan McGlone and a Japanese restaurant and whiskey bar from chef Joel Best just some of the incoming venues.