The brains behind popular Enmore Road restaurant Hartsyard have wandered up the street and opened a small bar called The Gretz. This is a trendy place, but it's still got a welcoming feel. Case in point: the bar stools are upholstered with denim jeans donated by the community. There's table service and a small plate seafood menu, offering hot and cold oysters, plus a constantly changing range of other fruits of the sea.
Opening a bar has been a long-term goal of Gregory Llewellyn, chef and co-owner of the one-hatted Hartsyard. After having a baby and writing a cookbook, Llewellyn's wife and business partner, Naomi Hart, says she ran out of excuses not to open a second venue with her husband and The Gretz seafood bar was born.
The slender, earthy-toned room has more in common with the oyster bars of New York than a David Jones food hall and there's a nautical theme by way of thick ropes linking wooden-plank bar-shelves and Edison light bulbs in a formation that resembles either an old fishing net or a very skinny octopus.
