Celebrity chefs Matt Moran and Peter Sullivan have a taste for design with restaurant and kitchen garden in Woollahra

Restaurateurs Matt Moran and Peter Sullivan are immersed in the final renovations of the old Prunier’s building in Woollahra’s lovely Chiswick Gardens before its March 7 reopening.

Moran recently tweeted that operation Chiswick will have a ceiling-to-floor white-tiled Parisian bistro-style bar plus a wood-fired oven.

A kitchen garden, with a dedicated gardener, will produce seasonal goodies for the “sharing” menu. Apparently the radishes (pictured above) and cucumbers are doing well.

Art director Vince Frost, who created chic packaging for Donna Hay and Ceramica di Manfredi and produced a beautiful book for Damien Pignolet, is also working to create the restaurant theme. The wine list is designed by ARIA sommelier Matthew Dunne with diners enjoying views over the council garden on Ocean Street. 

The space is believed to have been part of the stables of an old house called Chiswick, which occupied the land. Woollahra Council bought it from a Mrs L.F.Holmes in 1938 for seven thousand pounds.

From 1953 the restaurant was called The Kiosk. In 1970 it was Dimitris, and Pruniers moved there in late 1972 from the Al Corso, in Double Bay, where it had opened in 1947.

Chris Grinham from Humphrey and Edwards Design worked with Moran and Sullivan  on the restaurant’s design and interiors.

The restaurant is set to open March 7.