Instant food success, just add water

Sydney's obsession with waterside food action is set to hit its usual summertime crescendo, and nowhere is as hot as Shelly Beach's Le Kiosk, which is up for tender for the first time in more than 40 years. Bathers' Pavilion owner Serge Dansereau and the team from The Boathouse cafes at Palm Beach and Balmoral are in the running, spotted taking the tour at Le Kiosk. As was Aria's Matt Moran, who swings open the doors early next week at another piece of hot waterside property, the former site of North Bondi Italian, which has been renamed North Bondi Fish.

Restaurateur Robert Morris ran Le Kiosk for 37 years before he sold it four years ago. Now, Manly Council is advertising for interested parties and former Bird Cow Fish chef Alex Herbert is listed as a contact.

Another prime slice of waterside food action has been unveiled at Tamarama, the progressive eastern suburbs beach that briefly trialled uniformed beach waiters in 1998 to attend customers perched above the sand on loungers. The service didn't last, but the newly relocated cafe at Tamarama Beach has finally opened, and is fittingly Glamarama in design, while the food remains beachside simple.

The Sydney Opera House has been at the front of food news in 2013, and Short Black hears Bondi's Corner House has topped a star-studded list vying to run a pop-up eatery there during summer.

Cronulla has another opening, The Blind Bear Saloon & Eatery, the dark, speak-easy-style venue a step forward for a suburb once enamoured with Chiko Roll culture.