The Bar Suze Team Is Keeping Busy with a New Potts Point Venue and a Pivot at Its OG Restaurant

Two years since opening in Surry Hills, Bar Suze has announced that it will be taking part in a well-worn hospitality tradition: pivoting. The small Foveaux Street bar that's been specialising in natural wines and Swedish snacks will shift its focus and reopen as B.S. Pasta Palace on Friday, July 7.

Expect the same great Bar Suze atmosphere with a no-fuss menu focusing on pasta and snacks. Thankfully, this means that Surry Hills isn't losing the bustling spot, but you do only have a couple more weeks to get your hands on the venue's toast skagen or eggplant galette.

Toast skagen, Nikki To

To celebrate the site's time as Bar Suze and mark its evolution, the team is throwing a Midsommar party on Sunday, July 2 before the bar shuts down for a four-day hibernation. This walk-in-only celebration will feature plenty of natural wine, signature Bar Suze Nordic snacks and DJs setting the soundtrack.

Not content with just an overhaul of their original venue, Bar Suze owners Greg Bampton and Phil Stenvall are also opening a new outpost in Potts Point. Named Caravin, this 30-ish-seat French wine bar will arrive in the former Dumpling & Beer site next to Piccolo Bar on Ward Street.

Bar Suze, Nikki To

Bampton and Stenvall will bring their learnings from Bar Suze over to this second venue, where they're aiming to really put their stamp on Sydney's wine bar scene. Expect a diverse list of vino partnered with an experimental menu of European snacks.

The opening will solidify Potts Point one of the best spots in Sydney to find an understated haunt with a standout drinks menu. Caravin will join its neighbour Piccolo Bar — one of our picks for the 20 best bars in Sydney — as well as Piccolo's sibling Vermuteria, the Love Tilly Group's Dear Sainte Eloise, Bar Lucia, Chester White Cured Meats and Jangling Jacks, just to name a few, in the vibrant late-night suburb that has enjoyed a major comeback since the end of the lockout laws.

Bar Suze, Nikki To

B.S. Pasta Palace will open at 54 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills from Friday, July 7, while Caravin will open at 9 Ward Avenue, Potts Point in spring 2023.