She plans to spend some time in Sydney next year. The country is only starting to open slowly to the rest of the world after being largely shut off for 18 months. Smyth hasn’t set foot in the restaurant, kept out by Australia’s strict border restrictions. More than a year after its scheduled opening, the casino floors remain shrouded in darkness after Crown was found unfit to hold a gaming license in Sydney for having facilitated money laundering at its Melbourne and Perth casinos and working with junket operators connected to Asian organized crime gangs. Billionaire James Packer’s development has been mired in scandal. Oncore’s sold-out start will be a welcome relief for Crown Resorts after a horrific year. There’s also the lure of being a flagship restaurant at Crown Resorts Ltd.’s shiny new A$2.2 billion ($1.56 billion) harborside casino and hotel complex, alongside the first Sydney outlet of Nobu and acclaimed Australian chef Ross Lusted’s Woodcut. Oncore is Smyth’s first restaurant outside London, where she famously became the first female British chef to win three Michelin stars. Smyth chose the city because of time she spent traveling the country during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Smyth’s unabashed embrace of fine dining–the A$300 ($215) seven-course tasting menu clocks in at about 3 ½ hours-is bold, given the shift away from expensive, time-consuming meals that has swept the city’s dining scene, shuttering spots like Sepia, where Martin Benn served an exquisite 12-course tasting menu. It’s certainly the most exciting opening to hit Sydney in years. But the strikingly innovative dishes and a focus on local products-along with sweeping harbor views-lets it lay claim to the title of Sydney’s best restaurant, no small feat in such a food-obsessed town. Oncore by Clare Smyth has been open only a month. When reservations for February 2022 were made available, it took just 20 minutes for them to disappear. (Bloomberg) - Here’s some advice if you want to dine at Clare Smyth’s new Sydney restaurant: Be quick.When bookings finally opened-after a four-month delay when Sydney was plunged into lockdown-demand was so overwhelming that the restaurant’s website crashed.
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