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Cho Cho San to open in Potts Point

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Opening soon ... (from L to R) Sam Christie, Nic Wong and Jonathan Barthelmess at Cho Cho San restaurant in Potts Point.
Opening soon ... (from L to R) Sam Christie, Nic Wong and Jonathan Barthelmess at Cho Cho San restaurant in Potts Point.James Brickwood

Cho Cho San, the latest venture from Apollo restaurant co-owners Sam Christie and Jonathan Barthelmess, opens Tuesday on a Macleay Street strip rapidly steering a new Asian path.

Kylie Kwong has announced she'll also join the Potts Point party, relocating Billy Kwong to the strip at the end of the year. Christie, who has plenty of Asian food runs on the board as a founder of Longrain restaurant, says Cho Cho San is simply building on what was once a Japanese food stronghold.

“Back when the Hotel Nikko was here there were about 20 or 30 Japanese places in the area,” he says. Christie and Barthelmess' love of Japanese cuisine drove the project, but they toyed with a number of potential names.

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“Someone suggested The Nippon Inn, and Japollo was joked about,” he says.

With a sweeping Japanese menu, Cho Cho San waves the flag at a historic Sydney restaurant site where Osteria Moana and Paramount previously traded.

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

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