Icebergs' David Owen to Open North Bondi Diner

Icebergs restaurant manager David Owen is quitting multi-million dollar South Bondi views in favour of of the north. In five weeks, he’ll open his new eatery, Paradise Road Diner in North Bondi, alongside Bondi’s Best, The Hill and the bus terminal where 380s break between loops.

Though details are still scant, Good Food reports that Owen is planning on a "modern American diner". We're not too sure if the name 'Paradise Road' is any kind of reference to the 1997 fact-based war film starring Glenn Close recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned in Sumatra by Japanese troops during World War II, but we're banking on the fact that it's simply a naive, tropical, beachy, unrelated name.

Owen will run the restaurant in league with Gaudi Diaz, who co-owns Byron Bay’s Italian at the Pacific. And Owen's no spring chicken at the restaurant game. Before taking on the management of the Icebergs restaurant, he held numerous positions both here and overseas — we're talking a string of fancy, fancy joints, including London's Soho House, Cecconi’s, Gordon Ramsay and Aqua Group.

Paradise Road will join a slew of new restaurants to have opened up in Bondi during the past couple of years, from Matt Moran’s North Bondi Fish to Maurice Terzini’s Da Ozario Pizza + Porchetta. What’s more, Ian Oakes, ex-Grand National chef, has told GF that he’ll be taking over the space previously occupied by La Macelleria. And who knows what culinary adventures might be factored into the Bondi Pavilion’s $10 million revamp over the next decade?

Via Good Food.