Randwick’s Clove Lane snaffles former Vue De Monde chef

The newly opened Clove Lane restaurant in the quiet shopping strip of Clovelly Road has recruited well.

It has picked up Cory Campbell, the former head chef at Melbourne's award-winning fine dining restaurant, Vue de Monde.

Campbell had been looking around for some time for somewhere to set up his own restaurant. Raised in Newcastle, the time was right for him to move on.

He had been looking around Sydney.

And while he is still on the search for a suitable place, he has joined Clove Lane in the meantime.

He is philosophical about the decision.

"We're just three senior chefs in the kitchen bouncing ideas off each other," Campbell told Good Food.

Co-owner chef Emile Avramides, who was trained in the exacting kitchens of Gordon Ramsay's Maze restaurants in London and Melbourne, and who  also has Cutler & Co on his CV, puts it simply:

“Cory, co-head chef Michael Tran (Hibiscus in London) and myself,"  Avramides told Good Food.

But he makes it clear that people should not turn up expecting to find Vue De Monde type dishes at his new restaurant.

But, he says, the quality of what’s on offer will be top notch.

"We're doing caramelised globe artichoke with gnocchi and hazelnuts, and a veal cheek dish. Everything's fresh, we even have herbs growing out on the street we run out and strip to order," he told Good Food.

He describes the kind of cuisine on offer as “modern bistro.”

"I hate to use the term modern Australian, but it leans that way," he told Good Food. "I like the word bistronomy, but if people get the wrong idea they think you're being pretentious. So, I guess you'd say modern bistro."

"We want to be a place for locals, so we'll open during the day, probably in spring.”