Say Aloha to The Cliff Dive’s Skewer-Centric Yurippi Tuck Shop

It seems The Cliff Dive owners Alex Dowd, Jeremy Blackmore and Russell Martin have watched us scrape the bottom of too many peanut, popcorn and pretzel bowls at sibling joints Shady Pines, The Baxter Inn and Tio's; they're giving us an expanded food offering with something more substantial for our evening feed.

Introducing Yurippi, TCD's South-East Asian island experiment. The owners have hired chef 'Honky' to lead the culinary charge with sweet, sour and spicy flavours combined on more skewers than you can probably handle. Aiming to attract an early evening crowd (kind of necessary given the lockout laws' restrictions on late night), Yurippi will offer signature skewers like wild ginger beef, turmeric lemongrass pork and confit chilli octopus either by themselves or with a healthy dose of vegetables and pandan coconut rice.

Yurippi heralds an expanded drink selection too, and new ceramics (if your Tinder date likes that kind of thing) with Michael Chiem (ex Sokyo, Black and Bulletin Place) slipping into the role of the drinks creative director.

If you're salivating all over your keyboard at this point, good news: Yurippi has already started searing skewers with good intent to "fill the belly and soothe the soul", as Blackmore prophesises.

Yuripee is open now and accepting bookings of ten or more people, Wednesday to Saturday, from 6pm at The Cliff Dive, 16-18 Oxford Square, Oxford Street, Darlinghurst.