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Bar H

Bar H's ramen with scallop, duck and purslane.
Bar H's ramen with scallop, duck and purslane.Supplied

Good Food hat15/20

Asian$$

Chinese bread and pork butter. Pickles, pork skin, wasabi. Cucumber, black fungi and pig’s ear. One-time Billy Kwong chef Hamish Ingham has adopted ‘chuka’ cuisine, Japan’s version of Chinese food, and added his own passion for native ingredients to the merry mix. So prawn toast is a steamed and deep-fried, sesame-seed bun filled with prawn, ginger and shallots; and ramen comes with udon noodles, duck, scallops and purslane in a delicate chicken broth. Desserts are equally hybrid, judging by an English custard tart topped with wattleseed and fennel pollen, but there’s joy to be found in the nubbins of Japanese fried chicken topped with grated daikon, yuzu, soy and finger lime, and stalks of native saltbush leaves, swiped through tempura batter and fried until crisp. The cooking may have changed, but Bar H is still the casual, neighbourly, wine-friendly, candle-lit corner bistro it has always been.

And … Hire out the basement dining room.

THE LOW-DOWN
Vibe
Cosy, cool inner-city corner.
Best bit A new direction with Asian food.
Worst bit Close-together seating can be uncomfy.

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