Overview
In a marriage of two great hospitality venues, Newtown's Hartsyard is teaming up with Melbourne's Bar Liberty (which we awarded best new bar last year) to create a Creole feast inspired by the best dishes of the New Orleans bayou. The one-off dinner will take place on Thursday, June 1 with Hartsyard's head chef Gregory Llewellyn hosting his mate from down south, Bar Liberty chef Casey Wall, in a night that will see the two American expats join forces to bring the States' Deep South to Sydney.
This is Llewellyn and Wall's second dinner collaboration, with their first taking place down in Melbourne at Rockwell and Sons in 2015. For this one, the two classically French trained chefs have designed a menu inspired that re-imagines hearty southern classics — think étouffée with local marron and duck or jambalaya and dirty rice. As with true home-style hospitality, guests will share their meal at communal tables, along with cocktail pitchers of Ramos gin fizz.
The set menu is at a surprisingly reasonable price point of $65 per head — but, due to the sharing nature of the dinner, dietary requirements cannot be accommodated so be sure to check in with the team before booking if you have any. Bookings can be made through the Hartsyard website.