With breezy stylings, smart snacks and a wine list geared for refreshment, Randy’s, from the crack team behind Bar Elvina, is levelling up Northern Beaches drinking.
Sydney is renowned for its beaches, but not necessarily for the wealth of outstanding drinking and dining options beside them. Nor is the Northern Beaches region typically seen as being at the centre of what’s hot. The better for us, locals may say, who know perception doesn’t always line up with reality. But one thing everyone can agree on is how downright exciting it is to now have two venues in Avalon combining city smarts and sensibilities with a love of everything local, pitched at visitors and locals alike, run by sharp operators with serious smarts and experience between them.
Those faces include Andy Emerson, who has co-owned several seminal Sydney venues (The Passage, Acme and Bar Brosé among them), and Jesse McTavish, co-founder of top Melbourne cafes Top Paddock and The Kettle Black. The pair made the move to the beaches with the launch of Bar Elvina a couple of summers ago; a breezy, beautiful upstairs wine bar with whitewashed walls and plenty of greenery that feels as at home in Sydney as it would in the Med. Now, along with Nick Musgrave, they’ve doubled up, flipping the downstairs sandwich shop Sandy’s into Randy’s, a laid-back 26-seat wine bar that doesn’t shy away from flavour – whether it’s on the plate or in the glass – offering service that feels casual but hits hard where it counts. With seats on the footpath, wines on the chalkboard, warm evenings and sunny share plates for snacking, why go? Why wouldn’t you?
