Award-winning restaurateurs Sid and Chand Sahrawat are making able to work their magic in Ponsonby as quickly as as soon as extra, with plans to open a model new bar and restaurant inside the Auckland suburb later this 12 months.
KOL (pronounced ‘coal’ and impressed by the equivalent phrase), will open its doorways in late October, capable of serve up cocktails and tandoor-inspired snacks as the warmer months technique.
Located inside the iconic villa at on the nook of Hepburn Street and Ponsonby Freeway, the situation has a rich hospitality historic previous, along with Rocco and MooChowChow, and most currently working as 10 Eleven by Marvel.
The Sahrawats said that they’d been discussing the KOL thought for about 12 months and as soon as they heard the Ponsonby website was obtainable, they knew they’d found their new restaurant’s dwelling, signing up inside days of their go to to the villa.
“Chand and I have been talking a couple of casual cocktail bar and tandoor restaurant thought for a while now,” Sid says. “We wanted to create an space with an emphasis on good drinks paired with a menu the place the whole thing is cooked over charcoal or fireside, a spot the place you’ll get good cocktails and meals with out sitting down for a full meal,” Sid says.
“As soon as we visited the villa, we knew it was glorious – it ticks all the packing containers for us and we’re so excited to be returning to Ponsonby.”
The couple provided Sidart Ponsonby remaining 12 months and in the intervening time private and performance fashionable Indian restaurant Cassia in Fort Lane and casual-fine consuming restaurant Sid at The French Café in Symonds Street, Auckland.