SYDNEY
rown Street has welcomed what is perhaps Sydney’s first Sri Lankan wine bar with the opening of . “The idea has been there since we opened up The Fold and we had customers asking us to open up for dinner,” says co-owner Travin De Hoedt. Dividing his time between being the executive pastry chef at Franca and his family-run now-closed café The Fold, De Hoedt will be joined by his father, brother and wife, who are chefs as well, while his mother is front of house. “We’re taking Sri Lankan street food as inspiration and putting it into a contemporary wine bar concept,” says De Hoedt. One dish they are working on is inspired by kottu, a curried rice and roti dish. “We’ve taken that street food flavour profile as a base and we’re going to be using WA lobsters. It typically has egg, pandan, curry leaves, chilli, coriander seeds, lime and our roasted curry powder we
