Kitchen By Mike's Mike McEnearney Announces New Project

City-dwelling foodies, Mike McEnearney has plans for the CBD. After saying farewell to his celebrated eatery Kitchen by Mike, the beloved Sydney chef has been pretty damn busy, announced last month as the new creative director for Carriageworks Farmers Markets. But next year, he's got a more city-centric project on the books, a 100-seater restaurant called No.1 Bent Street — by Mike.

Set to open in early 2016 on the Bent Street side of retail/food centre, The Wintergarden, the new eatery will be a natural evolution of the wildly popular Kitchen by Mike canteen, with a more formal set-up. Open for lunch and dinner six days a week, McEnearney's new restaurant will see a daily-changing menu filled with the chef's love for simple but generous food, using seasonal, local and housemade ingredients.

"I'm so pleased to be opening in the city," says McEnearney. "The food in the CBD just gets better and better and we are looking forward to being part of that. Ours will be a small, daily-changing menu and the focus will be on the produce much as it was at Kitchen by Mike. Although the setting may be more formal, I hope it will feel familiar to those who have come to love Kitchen by Mike. No.1 Bent Street will not be modeled on the canteen style everyone is used to at Kitchen By Mike but the principles and spirit behind the food will remain the same."

Meanwhile, McEnearney and his team are looking for new locations for their long-loved Rosebery canteen, Kitchen by Mike, so stay tuned for more details on this.

No.1 Bent Street — by Mike will open at The Wintergarden, Sydney CBD in 2016.