Porteno re-opens after fire

Watch out diners, 2015 is quickly shaping up as Sydney's year of the restaurant fire.

Last week a cool room compressor flamed at Fratelli Fresh on Bridge Street, leading to the evacuation of punters at the restaurant and neighbouring fine diner, Rockpool.

Last month Stuyvesant's House, in Crows Nest, lit up quicker than a pack of Peter Stuyvesant at a 1970s student rally.

And the January fire at Porteno closed the Cleveland Street restaurant.

But the worm is turning, Porteno reopens today, with its owners taking the opportunity to give its asador a facelift and update the menu during repair work.

Lennox Hastie's new Fink Group-backed restaurant opens next Wednesday with a fate-tempting name: Firedoor. As the name hints, the Surry Hills restaurant will cook food over wood coals.

"Lennox tells me that fire offers an amazing spectrum of flavour and nothing expresses the integrity of an ingredient more than an honest piece of wood," a Firedoor spokeswoman tells Good Food.

The restaurant will also feature an "Australian-made Aga".