Dan Hong and Justin Hemmes took a trip through Southeast Asia and built a room out of it: street food dishes, two big banquet menus and a bar that stays open late. It is in the Ivy precinct on George Street, which is Merivale trying to make the middle of the CBD somewhere people go at night.
WHY IT’S WORTH IT
1Dan Hong, who is one of the two or three chefs that define modern Sydney.
2Open late in the middle of the CBD, which is genuinely rare.
3Two banquet menus, so a big table does not have to negotiate.