Bronte restaurant Pheast 'closed for business'

When Pheast restaurant opened last year, Terry Durack described its staff as sweet as pie and the food as "real".

Sadly, the Bronte Road restaurant with former Neil Perry young gun Amanda Gale in the kitchen has unexpectedly shut its doors. A perfunctory sign on its window declared it "closed for business" while thanking those who supported it.

Certainly, Gale's food was very good, not unexpected from a chef who opened Nava for Soho House in West Hollywood before trying her luck with her own restaurant in Sydney.

"Pheast feels a throw-back, but it might actually be more of a signpost to future inner suburban contentment," Durack wrote in his review. In recent days a quickly arranged sale of the restaurant's contents proved Pheast's last hurrah.