Table for 20 in Surry Hills on the move

Table for 20 and Sticky Bar will close before Christmas, but the Surry Hills site won't be empty for long with the team behind Riley Street Garage set to take up residence early next year.

"Our last day of trade will be December 20," says Michael Fantuz, who unlocked the doors at Table for 20 eight years ago.

The venue, where customers eat dinner party-style, was an early, fixed address forerunner of the dining trend that later swept Sydney. Friends and strangers mingled at Table for 20, a concept Fantuz is hoping to rebirth elsewhere.

A spokeswoman for Parlour Group confirmed it will open a new venue in the Campbell Street site in April.

The Brody Petersen–led Parlour Group has expanded in recent years, building on its Bondi success and venues such as the Stuffed Beaver, opening the luxe Riley Street Garage in Woolloomooloo in late 2013.

"It [the new Campbell Street restaurant] will be in line with our current venues, with a North American feel that will be followed through with the food and service," a Parlour spokeswoman says.

"Upstairs will definitely remain a bar and we are discussing live music."

Fantuz is scouting locations to relocate Table for 20 and Sticky Bar, but he will put the two in separate sites.

One of Fantuz's other projects, Buffalo Dining Club, is also expanding, with the mozzarella bar tipped to open a second site in Rosebery next year.