A new nightlife precinct is coming to the crossroads of Redfern and Surry Hills with Wunderlich Lane at its centre.

Wunderlich Lane will be home to a collective of restaurants and all-day dining, bars, beauty, wellness, and boutique retail by some of the city’s best operators; a boutique luxury hotel – The EVE; event spaces; fresh food village-style market; creative office space; luxurious residences and charming arched, open-air walkways.

Joining the line-up of operators so far announced for Wunderlich Lane is the LuMi Dining team’s hotly anticipated concept, Regina La Pizzeria, opening October. Expect the LuMi team’s attention to quality, detail and experience in this fun, elevated contemporary-style pizzeria.

Also in October, Japanese chef Raita Noda is set to open his second restaurant, R by Raita Noda: premium Japanese dining by day and Noda’s signature omakase-style by night. And the scoop is that cult favourite Gelato Messina is also opening a new store at Wunderlich Lane this month.

By the end of the year, the precinct will include House Made Hospitality’s Island Radio, a restaurant that promises a lively dining experience with a menu that draws on the vibrant flavours of Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia and Baptist St. Rec. Club, a neighbourhood cocktail and wine tavern upstairs that will revel in the quirky, bizarre, and eccentric spirit of 1980s and ’90s Australia.

Joining them is Olympus, a restaurant from the team behind The Apollo and Cho Cho San in Sydney and Greca and Yoko in Brisbane. Olympus will bring Greek village style hospitality to the precinct, offering food of the mountains with an Athenian flair. The restaurant is built for feasting and celebration, with year-round garden dining under an impressive oculus ceiling.

Later this year, the 102-room The EVE Hotel will also begin welcoming guests to its boutique luxury accommodation, offering a thoughtfully curated art collection, and a landscaped rooftop deck complete with 20-metre swimming pool, bar and restaurant and lower-level lobby bar operated by Liquid & Larder (Bistecca, The Gidley, The Rover, Alfie’s). Completing the precinct in the new year will be a Bates Smart-designed events space where visitors to the neighbouring The EVE Hotel and Wunderlich Lane will gather and meet.

“We’ve spent the best part of four years curating the array of operators opening at Wunderlich Lane to ensure that we have an offering that showcases the best of Sydney and complements this unique and vibrant Surry Hills and Redfern community. It’s a thrill to begin sharing who they are, with many more to be announced,” said Jacob Rolls, TOGA Group General Manager Property Investment.

“They are a significant part of our vision for Wunderlich Lane – to bring this underutilised part of the neighbourhood to life and create a destination that the local community is proud of, and that visitors want to come to.”

Surry Hills is steeped in rich history and culture, with ‘Wunderlich’ being a nod to the location’s history where the Wunderlich brothers’ factory once produced the iconic Sydney red terracotta roof tiles and ornate pressed metal ceilings ceiling tiles in Sydney Town Hall between 1890 and 1972.

The precinct’s aesthetic maintains the federation-style rounded brickwork and terracotta blades of the restored 1987-built Bank of NSW building, which anchors the precinct on the corner of Cleveland and Baptist Streets.