There’s a few new eat­ing places of prom­in­ence opened or open­ing shortly for your (mostly) car­ni­vor­ous pleas­ure.

Poneke ff sammiePoneke have opened beneath the new Clyde Quay apart­ments – a mar­riage between Mojo (usu­al café ambi­ence and cab­in­et fare) and Mar­tin Bos­ley (meals). I’m not com­pletely sold on the price points (espe­cially for the small plates), but there’s no dis­put­ing the ingredi­ents are top class, many dishes have inter­est­ing twists (12 hour beef cheek mince on toast, prawn bap with sprouted peas and pre­served may­on­naise, roas­ted grapes and feta on grilled sour­dough), they offer effi­cient ser­vice, there are out­side tables for when the weath­er gods cooper­ate, and to be fair they are oper­at­ing in a fairly expens­ive loc­a­tion. 7 days from early (7amish) until mid-even­ing.  Week­ends might shift to a later start with a more spe­cial­ized brunch menu (pic­tured the fish fin­ger sand­wich with but­ter­milk onion rings, dis­guised as a bur­ger).

Beth­el Woods on The Ter­race (where the Wine Loft used to be) are also in full swing – from the folks who have the Whitby Co-op, Miramar Gas­works et al (Beth­el Woods being named after the loc­a­tion of the Wood­stock fest­iv­al). With a focus on smoked meats, beers from simple main­stream to top end crafty num­bers, laid back music of the era and the roof top garden for the fine sum­mer com­ing (where the impor­ted smokers are set up as a ‘BBQ pit’ I believe), they’ll prob­ably do all right. 7 days from 10am. Sample menu here.

The Bresolin – The Crazy Horse Steak­house had its finale on the last Sunday in Septem­ber and the new Bresolin devel­op­ment is in full swing. No open­ing date yet, Pig Clipartbut the boys were in the City Mar­ket kit­chen this week­end pro­mot­ing their new ven­ture. Again, a focus on meat with a whole car­ni­vore planned for roast­ing over the court­yard fire pit every Sunday, and areas for both cas­u­al food and beers or more tra­di­tion­al res­taur­ant ser­vice. In the old (from about 8 years ago) Bar Bodega site at 278 Wil­lis Street, just before Karo Drive. Looks like a pretty major redevel­op­ment by the look of the FB pics.

The new White­house ven­ture (I heard someone refer to it as White­bait recently…) is due to open at the bot­tom of Clyde Quay also in the near future. Again, the exist­ing White­house will close and the new ven­ture will be a bit more ‘access­ible’ (a’la’Charley Noble, Grill Meats Beer, etc). In time for Xmas parties.