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Sonoma bakery and wine bar set to open in Rose Bay

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Every dish at the new Sonoma bakery and eatery will be centred around bread.
Every dish at the new Sonoma bakery and eatery will be centred around bread. Chris Pearce

Sydney's sourdough obsession is about to step up a gear, with a new 50-seat eatery opening next month and bread taking centre stage in every dish.

Bakers are up all night anyway, so Sonoma owner Andrew Connole​ figured he'd include an evening wine bar at a new Sonoma site, opening in the second week of December on the corner of New South Head Road and Newcastle Street in Rose Bay.

Plenty of Sydney restaurants make their own bread, and Sonoma won't be the first local bakery to be a mild-mannered bread shop by day and pumping eatery at night.

Bourke Street Bakery briefly flirted with the evening dining concept in Potts Point, but Connole, who has been quietly planning the night time venture for several years, plans to stick with what he knows best on the plate.

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"Every dish will be centred around bread," he says. "They will be sharing plates, and we'll have a wine list and matched craft beers."

Connole dismissed rumours a posse of "bread sommeliers" is being trained for the launch. "It's just a beautiful, small place where people will hopefully pop in on their way home from work," he says.

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

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