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Lo Presti’s, a new restaurant in Redfern, Sydney, opened in July and combines Mediterranean-inspired cuisine with nostalgic '90s aesthetics. The owners, Rachael Trewin and Michael Lo Presti, offer dishes like charred eggplant dip, roasted black capsicums, and grilled vine leaf-wrapped mulloway. The menu also includes drinks by Paul Guiney of South End and cocktails by Olly Churcher from Bar Demo. The restaurant's atmosphere is described as reminiscent of the early 1990s with a focus on community vibes, featuring drink coasters reprinted from Lo Presti’s family espresso bar in Darlinghurst.
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Lo Presti's, a new restaurant in Redfern, Sydney, opened recently, combining Mediterranean cuisine with nostalgic elements of the 1990s. The establishment is owned by Rachael Trewin and Michael Lo Presti, who previously managed Chippendale’s Automata and worked at Marrickville’s Baba’s Place respectively. Paul Guiney, co-owner of Newtown's South End restaurant, helped create a diverse summer-friendly wine list, while Olly Churcher from Bar Demo crafted the cocktail menu. The venue, which sits on the site formerly occupied by hatted Moon Park, features a verandah overlooking Redfern Park and offers dishes like sesame focaccia with charred eggplant dip, reminiscent of Sydney’s carefree summers in the 1990s. Lo Presti's also channels community-focused vibes through design elements like drink coasters reprinted from Lo Presti's family espresso bar in Darlinghurst.
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At the verandah-framed site, once home to hatted Moon Park, Mediterranean(ish) Lo Presti’s feels very Sydney, very now, but it’s not hard to imagine you’re swiping sesame focaccia through the terrific charred eggplant dip and it’s one of those carefree summers of the 1990s again.
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A time when You Am I ruled the world and the coolest way to show you had a brain was pronouncing Peter Stuyvesant correctly.
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Lo Presti’s is so far up my alley, owners Rachael Trewin and Michael Lo Presti have essentially driven a ’63 Holden EJ through my front door.
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Trewin is a hospitality gun you may remember from managing Chippendale’s dearly missed Automata; Lo Presti was head chef at Marrickville’s Baba’s Place.
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With help from graphic designer Jarmaine Stojanovic on branding duties, the restaurant also channels the community-focused vibes Lo Presti experienced growing up in his family’s espresso bar.
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The drink coasters are reprints from that Darlinghurst cafe, now home to Bar Reggio, so don’t go looking for the advertised pinball, nachos and lasagne.
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While a large part of me was keen to visit when the restaurant opened in July, I was also happy to wait until spring and all the green stuff September brings.
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Lo Presti knows how to coax deliciousness from vegetables like Madge Maguire could fire up the Rabbitohs.
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Capsicums are roasted until they’re Doc Martens-black and caramelised, before the skin is discarded and the flesh is dehydrated to fortify flavour.
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Further boosted with marjoram and Pedro Ximenez vinegar, the garnet-red peppers are perfect for draping across robustly crusted bread while drinking a vibrant Malvasia Riojana.
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Hunks of roasted beetroot spend the night in their cooking liquid of red-wine vinegar and brown sugar before a gentle dehydration, too, creating a texture that’s chewy, giving and gnarly all at once, teamed with rosemary on a bed of house-made yoghurt.
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Broad beans are grilled and served in their pods, edamame-style; asparagus comes with avgolemono (lemon and egg) and plenty of fresh dill.
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Tuna toasts – crunchy thumbs of focaccia topped with preserved lemon mayonnaise, chilli-marinated broccoli and Aleppo pepper-spiced bluefin – are an essential snack.
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Grilled vine leaf-wrapped mulloway on roast fennel and onion tastes like a weekend in Hydra; a grilled pork chop is liberally covered in white wine, coriander and chicken stock-simmered pipis.
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A side of brown-butter toasted rice with garlic, ginger and spinach soaks up all the delicious juices left on share plates.
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Paul Guiney, co-owner of Newtown’s two-hatted South End (which feels like a seasonally driven sibling to Lo Presti’s, along with Redfern’s Fontana and Clarence and V in the CBD) helped put together the diverse summer-friendly wine list, while Olly Churcher of Enmore’s Bar Demo created the beaut cocktails.
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Cost: About $220 for two, excluding drinks
This review was originally published in Good Weekend magazine
Good Food reviews are booked anonymously and paid independently.
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A restaurant can’t pay for a review or inclusion in the Good Food Guide.
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