Entrepreneur Aaron Crinis wins tender for Bucket List site at Bondi Pavilion

When a rash of deals go down across Sydney, it is more often than not the usual suspects and hospitality heavyweights with their fingerprints all over them. But a new name has been popping up of late: Aaron Crinis.

The young operator cut his teeth in Wollongong before opening Glorietta, an ambitious restaurant project that launched in North Sydney last year.

Last month Crinis had the chequebook out again, splashing a reported $10 million in a joint venture with the Laundy group to snap up the Woolpack Hotel in Redfern.

Rumours have also been swirling that Crinis' next move is Australia's most famous beach. He confirmed to Good Food he has won the tender for an all-day eatery at the old Bucket List end of Bondi Pavilion (the team from Hinchcliff House at Circular Quay nabbed the big site at the other end of the building).

It has a working name of Glory Days, which is the moniker used by Crinis' coffee concept at the Glorietta site in North Sydney.

"We might stick with that or use something entirely new, but it's a great site [with 100 seats] and right on the corner, so we'll be able to do takeout," he says.

Crinis is also looking forward to jumping in at the Woolpack: "I grew up working in pubs."