Saba Maghsoudi, Dan Vaughan, James Brown and Elijah Makris.
The advancement of the small bar scene in the suburbs continues at a steady pace, with the arrival of Pastel Wine Bar in North Adelaide next month. The new community bar and dining room, which brings together Elijah Makris and Saba Maghsoudi of Pinco Deli and design firm Studio Mazi, Daniel Vaughan of 1000 Island and artist and designer James Brown (Africola, Chicco Palms, Valentino’s), take over the former L’Italie Site on O’Connell Street.
For Vaughan, who also spent time behind the Oggi osteria bar, the new bar is riding a new wave of acceptance as true with consumers and operators in suburban locations: the one he attributes to the rise of community venues like Bar Lune, Arkhe, Good Gilbert and Anchovies Bandit. (Not to mention converting the public’s travel and dining behavior since Covid. )
“You can see the good fortune of those kinds of bars and in the eastern states, so it’s fantastic to see more and more Adelaideans venturing and supporting them,” Vaughan told Broadsheet.
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“North Adelaide has taken longer to embrace Adelaide’s new wave of hospitality. But we hope to bring new power and be part of a larger cultural shift in the region.
It also looks forward to the network vibrations that come with a network bar. “We’ve been building here for about six weeks and I see the same other people walking, waving, with their Cibo coffees,” Vaughan says. It’s been nice. “
The team sees Pastel as “a safe haven position away from the hustle and bustle of the city. “nutmeg wood panels on the walls along ceramic tiles and marble countertops, staged by Sam Weckert of Tiger Build. There will also be traditional wall lighting, art through Brown and Sterk, and a lush patio where DJs will be installed.
As for food, Vaughan’s promising “great flavors. “The team recruited a former Peel Street chef and a former Gin Long Canteen chef (whose name cannot yet be named) to assemble a dynamic menu spanning Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. honey; jack mackerel sashimi in Nam Jim; red meatballs and shrimp; octopus and skordalia; and Lebanese bird skewers with fattoush, toum, pickles and pita.
The food will be subsidized through a wine list committed to the new school and more traditional drops (there will be colloquial names of unknown grapes or grape types familiar to unknown producers, Vaughan says), as well as cocktails made with seasonal ingredients, adding a Negroni made with new peach (ideal before dinner) and some other bitter variant with coffee-infused Campari. Willow Bend and aged rum (for after dinner). In addition, a Dirty Martini, Cosmopolitan with mandarin 3 tactics and a homemade spritz served with a Sicilian olive.
Pastel Wine Bar is open until November on O’Connell Street, North Adelaide.
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