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Just Open: Pilu at Akuna Bay

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Pilu at Akuna Bay: a Sunday-lunch-only restaurant.
Pilu at Akuna Bay: a Sunday-lunch-only restaurant.Supplied

Forget the 40-hour work week. Sydney is now home to a restaurant that opens for only one service, once a week. Owner Giovanni Pilu, moonlighting from his day-night job at the two-hatted Pilu at Freshwater restaurant, opened Pilu at Akuna Bay this month and its first Sunday lunch service packed the room.

"We're fully booked for the rest of the month, but I try to keep a few tables for walk-ins and boaties," Pilu says.

The Sardinian-born chef has taken over the restaurant space at d'Albora Marinas, where he's serving a one-size-fits-all sharing feast.

"I want people to experience that big Italian family lunch," he says. The opening $65-a-head menu includes antipasto, then zucchini flowers stuffed with ricotta, lemon and almonds, followed by a dish of strozzapreti, calamari and preserved lemon. Still hungry?

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Sharing plates of both roast spatchcock and Hiramasa kingfish land on the table next. Fill the tank with panna cotta and tiramisu, then jump in the car, or even better a boat. At this stage Pilu says it'll remain a Sunday-lunch-only restaurant.

D'Albora Marinas, Liberator General San Martin Drive, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Akuna Bay, 02 9986 3553 piluakunabay.com.au

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

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