Edition Coffee Roasters expands to dinner, snacks and sake

When the team known for some of the best coffee in Sydney starts slinging sake and snacks, you know you're in good hands.

Darlo favourite Edition Coffee Roasters has dipped its toe into the dinner market, launching with a micro menu of five dishes and significantly larger drink menu, curated by Black Market Sake.

Chef Jack New has returned to his former post at ECR, after running the crudo menu for Bondi's Icebergs and a stint at Chippendale's Kensington Street Social.

"The menu is inspired by Japanese izakayas and drinking dens, just six or seven ideas that change a bit every week, that people can snack on," New says.

Chirashizushi tacos arrive as a bed of koshi hikari rice scattered with sashimi, gochujang mayo, dried ume furikake and three types of pickles.

"We have a whole lot of Nordic pickles built up by our last chef, Tobias Friegal, so it's those and some really colourful Japanese pickles," New says. "It comes with a little stack of crispy seaweed sheets to eat it with."

The surprise favourite, he adds, is the kangaroo tataki, served with konbu-infused creme fraiche, yuzu koshi dressing and local plums. The gyoza stuffing will change weekly, too: pork belly with roast apple and miso is already gone, replaced by Queensland spanner crab and togarashi.

Orion beer is on tap, with a 15-strong sake list ranging from Ine Mankai red-rice sake, to a cloudy fizzy number, and 39-year-old Omiji Kijoshu.

Dessert is a still a work in progress, as New perfects an applewood, smoked whisky, chocolate fondant number.

Dinner runs on Friday and Saturday, with plans to expand to Thursday and Sunday soon.

265 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, editioncoffeeroasters.com