Newstead bakery gets a bar

The owner of Limes Hotel and Alfred & Constance is adding to his portfolio. This month sees Damien Griffith open Alfredo's, a late-night Italian eatery under ex-E'cco bistro head chef Norman Harvey. Griffith will then open his bakery, Chester Street Kitchen.

Currently, Chester Street in Newstead is used as a bakery for his other operations, but a recently installed blue-tiled wood-fired oven will soon be fired up to bake sourdough for the public.

"We have this amazing sourdough baker Phil Agnew," Griffith says.

"He was always a hobbyist but decided to go full-time and is absolutely obsessed with sourdough."

Jocelyn Hancock (formerly owner of Jocelyn's in James Street) will be playing a leading role as well. When the sun goes down, the sourdough bakery will transform into a neighbourhood bar with food. A liquor licence has been secured.

But wait, there's more. If Griffith doesn't have enough on the go, there are also plans to turn an old noodle factory he owns into another on-trend food destination.

Graze has promised to keep those plans mum for now, but watch this space.