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.