Richmond restaurant Hanoi Hannah reboots as New Quarter
Roslyn Grundy
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Richmond restaurant Hanoi Hannah New Quarter has rebooted as New Quarter, serving food its owners describe as Melbourne Vietnamese .
Lockdown provided owners the Commune Group with an opportunity to sharpen both the space and the menu. It wasn t fulfilling what we wanted it to be, so we ve started again, says Simon Blacher of the Commune Group, whose hospitality roster also includes Firebird, Tokyo Tina and Neptune Food & Wine. New Quarter s crumbed chicken terrine with Laughing Cow cheese and nuoc mam caviar.
Photo: Parker Blain
Former Sunda sous chef Scott Lord has returned to head the kitchen, ousting Hanoi Hannah street food signatures such as pho and rice-paper rolls and honing the menu to a shorter list of contemporary Vietnamese-inspired dishes that might be more at home in a wine bar, including snack-sized banh mi with whipped paté, and bee
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