Mambo Tuckshop pops up at Bondi Beach

The tuckshop was always one of highlights of the school week for Pinbone's Mike Eggert.

"Mum used to write ham and salad sandwich, an apple and orange juice on the brown paper bag. I'd throw it out and put a different bag in with a sausage roll, Coke and a Mars Bar," he recounts.

The chef, who is currently cooking for packed houses at Mr Liquor's Dirty Italian Disco, in Mascot, has found time to curate a menu for Mambo Tuckshop, which kicks off its four-day pop-up run this Thursday at Bondi Beach.

The Mambo-themed tuckshop will include a Pinbone new-school take on the pie on its menu, filled with beef and 'Mambomite'. "It isn't the first time we've done a pie, we had a wallaby one on the menu at the restaurant when we were in Woollahra," Eggert says.

If you are feeling really nostalgic, there's a devon sandwich on the menu. Eggert and co-collaborator Jemma Whiteman will also turn out vegie rolls with warrigal greens and ricotta. "We have discovered a great gluten-free pastry. It is Bondi after all," Eggert says.

With orders taken on a brown paper bag, what tuckshop trip would be complete without something sweet? How about a macadamia nut and wattleseed vanilla slice ($5.50) or a lemon and sherbert iceblock ($4.50)? If you are feeling really lazy, Deliveroo even has permission to drop your order to you on the beach.

If only the school canteen had been this good.

Open 10am-4pm January 25-January 28.

266 Campbell Parade North Bondi