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Dan Barber-inspired fare sprouting in Ashfield

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

The Garden, a 300-seat restaurant, has opened at Wests Ashfield Leagues.
The Garden, a 300-seat restaurant, has opened at Wests Ashfield Leagues.Supplied

Foraged salad isn't what you'd expect to find in a club diner, or suburban Ashfield. But chef Oliver Heath is trying to lift the game for the club genre at The Garden, the 300-seat restaurant which has just opened at Wests Ashfield Leagues.

Heath studied Dan Barber's farm to fork approach first-hand at Blue Hill in New York, now he's plotting and planning a kitchen garden for the top of the club's car park. The opening menu is pretty safe, with a scattering of chicken schnitzel, lamb ribs and share plates. But scratch the surface and Heath's due diligence with producers surfaces.

Scorched cauliflower is served with labna, and that "foraged" salad includes beetroot, pickled onions, haloumi and pearl barley alongside "handpicked" leaves.

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Scott BollesScott Bolles writes the weekly Short Black column in Good Food.

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