Yolk’s Fifth Birthday
Gasworks’ much-loved brekkie-roll slinger Yolk is turning five this week! Since opening on September 5, 2019, the egg-centric diner has garnered a reputation for having some of the best bacon-and-egg rolls in town, with regulars travelling across town to wrap their mitts around the gooey goodies each week. To celebrate its fifth birthday, owner Yianni Passaris and the Yolk team have decided to give it’s beloved community a gift – $8 bacon-and-egg rolls all day long. That’s right – on Friday September 6 you can sink your teeth into a yolky BAE roll and still get change from a tenner! The promo is running from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, which means you could definitely have one for breakfast and lunch. Be sure to swing by to wish the team happy birthday, grab an $8 roll and hang around for a classic OJ and good vibes.

A Month of Mollusc at Bar Alto
Any visit to New Farm institution Bar Alto must include an order of its pot mussels. The dish has been a signature here for more than 15 years and now the Bar Alto team has decided to celebrate all tasty invertebrates (from scallops and oysters to mussels and clams) all through September. Bar Alto’s Month of Mollusc will see the kitchen debut a special menu (available in addition to the regular Bar Alto menu) featuring the likes of Shark Bay scallop escabeche with stracciatella, mussels with ‘nduja, vermentino cream and toasted ciabatta, vongole linguine with aglio olio peperoncino and pan grattato, and Bar Alto’s mollusc brodetto bianco, featuring scallop, mussels, vongole and arrow squid in pil pil. The special menu is available from Sunday September 1 – head to the Bar Alto website to make a booking.

A Truffle Evening at The Wolf
As the cooler months start to wind down, so too does truffle season. Before we farewell our favourite fungus for another year, award-winning inner-city restaurant The Wolf is hosting a four-course dinner filled to the brim with decadent truffle flavours. From 6:30 pm on Thursday 5 September, The Wolf will serve a set-menu centred around farm-fresh truffles, all sourced from northern New South Wales. Executive chef Kym Machin has crafted a sensational menu for the evening, including the likes lobster gnocchi with truffle cream, a wagyu pithivier with foie gras, truffle, mushroom and sauce perigueux, and Brie de Meaux with truffle, honeycomb, muscatels and oat biscuit. After dinner, guests will be presented with a take-home goodie bag, loaded with petit fouts, chocolate truffles and a house-made mini croissant with a pad of truffle butter. Tickets to A Truffle Evening at The Wolf are going for $130 per diner, with the option to add sommelier-paired wines for an additional $70. Head to The Wolf’s website to secure your spot.

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