‘Nothing like it’: Pantry on Prospect opens
SA food duo Callum Hann and Themis Chryssidis say their Prospect Road restaurant-meets-pantry concept feels most “like them”.
South Australian food identity and serial MasterChef Australia finalist Callum Hann is no stranger to opening restaurants, but his latest could be his most personal yet.
Hann and long-time business partner Themis Chryssidis, with whom he launched Sprout Cooking School 15 years ago, today open the doors to Pantry on Prospect – a 70-seat restaurant-meets-providore in The Harrington apartment building on Prospect Road.
The concept joins the duo’s city venues Roma, a contemporary Italian restaurant, and the Middle Eastern-inspired Olive.
Blending all-day dining with retail is smart business, says Chryssidis. “We reduce the need for lunch and dinner service to be crazy; it allows us to spread our revenue across the day or across the week,” he says.
Some 200 products are stocked in the “pantry”, a space that will also serve grab-and-go items such as Lost Loaf sourdough toasties, fresh-baked cakes and coffee.
The considered selection of goods also works to inspire the dining menu, which – rather than subscribe to any one cuisine – could be described as “modern Australian”. Think, Limestone Coast octopus with Salt Gang hot sauce glaze and Up the Hill pickled fennel; Port Lincoln kingfish with handpicked Ananda Organic capers; and smoked beetroot with Woodside goat curd and Pendleton agrumato blood orange oil.
“It was only a couple of weeks ago that I said to Themis, ‘this restaurant feels the most like Sprout,” says Hann in describing how the venue feels “like them”.
“This sits in a similar creative space; it’s more than just a cuisine. I can’t find anything around that’s quite like it.
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“The exciting thing about this food menu is… we are governed by the pantry. If we find a really cool ingredient to sell in the pantry, we’re going to hero it in the dish. And vice versa, if we use a cool ingredient on the menu and someone really enjoys that particular item, they can take it away with them.”
POP joins a string of new hospitality venues to open in Prospect as housing development unfolds. They include the recently opened Li Beirut and Prospect Hotel & Cellars, while later this month will see the opening of Picoso Mexican Bar y Cocina. Contemporary Asian restaurant Modachau, from the Ngyuen family, is also slated to open in 2027.
“It’s about Prospect Road being this thriving neighbourhood vibe that we wanted to be a part of,” Chryssidis says.
“It’s beyond the dining table for us.”
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