Icebergs Dining Room and Bar Announces Four Night Easter Takeover with Leading Sydney Chefs
16 March 2026
Bondi’s Icebergs Dining Room and Bar (IDRB) has announced Icebergs Long Weekender, presented by Don Julio. The four-night Easter celebration of Sydney’s hospitality scene will bring together some of the city’s most dynamic and influential chefs under Bondi’s iconic roof.
Across four consecutive evenings from 2 to 5 April, IDRB will host guest collaborators including Nat Thaipun, Billy Wong and Jean-Paul El Tom. Each chef will take over the kitchen for one night, presenting a three-course menu reflecting their heritage and culinary influences. The menus will celebrate Thai, Cantonese and Lebanese cuisine, designed to showcase the vibrant flavours, traditions, and personal stories that shape Sydney’s dining scene.
Alex Prichard, Culinary Director of IDRB, said: “We’re excited to bring together a group of chefs we genuinely admire for the weekend. Australia has incredible talent, and each chef brings their own background, influences, and style. It’s about sharing their stories with our guests, enjoying great food and company—and making the most of the weekend by the ocean.”
The long weekend will kick off on Thursday, 2 April, with Nat Thaipun — celebrated chef, best-selling author, MasterChef winner, and member of Melbourne’s acclaimed Vue de Monde team. Nat will bring her vibrant contemporary Thai cooking to Bondi.
An Australian-born Thai chef renowned for blending traditional Thai flavours with global techniques, Nat’s dishes are layered, bold, and instinctively generous. For this special evening, she will present a three-course menu inspired by the heat of the kitchen, the salt of the ocean, and her mother’s years working in a Thai-Italian kitchen.
Custom cocktails will be by the Maybe Sammy team influenced by their El Primo Sanchez venue.
Live sounds will be by multi-instrumentalist Jake Meadows on the harp.
On Good Friday, 3 April, Billy Wong, co-owner of the renowned Golden Century and founder of XOPP, will take over.
Raised by acclaimed restaurateurs Eric and Linda Wong, Wong helped shape Golden Century’s original legacy and its 2025 reopening at Crown Sydney. His concept, ‘Cantonese seafood on the Pacific’, will celebrate the vibrancy and precision of modern Cantonese cooking through a seafood-driven three-course menu. Live sounds will be by Bartolo..
Easter Saturday, 4 April, will see Jean-Paul “JP” El Tom, co-founder and executive chef of Marrickville beloved Baba’s Place, Corner 75 and the new SIT Cafe, bring his generous, nostalgic and technically refined cooking to IDRB. El Tom’s takeover, a celebration of Lebanese flavour and suburban memories, will honour the culture and community that
shaped him. Live sounds will be by Zi Nori.
The Long Weekender culminates on Sunday 5 April with a sunset wrap party celebrating the chefs behind the series.
The collaborators will present a signature dish reflecting their heritage, technique or defining career moment, together forming a collective portrait of Sydney’s contemporary dining scene. A curated wine shortlist and live vocals by Lucy Washington with Icebergs resident Charlie Chux will carry the celebration into the evening, with sunset lunch bookings available from 4.00pm.
Live sounds by Lucy Washington and Charlie Chux.
Each three course menu will be $180 per person, including a welcome drink
Bookings are now available via Icebergs Dining Room and Bar website.
Further information and event times can be found below.
Event Details: Each three-course menu and a drink on arrival
Event: Icebergs x NAT THAIPUN
Time: Dinner from 6pm, Thursday 2 April
Ticket: $180
Event: Icebergs x BILLY WONG
Time: Dinner from 5pm, Friday 3 April
Ticket: $180
Event: Icebergs x JP EL TOM
Time: Dinner from 6.00pm, Saturday 4 April
Ticket: $180
Event: SUNSET CLOSING LUNCH
Time: Sunset Lunch from 4pm, Sunday 5 April
Ticket: $180
About Icebergs Group
Icebergs Dining Room and Bar, perched above the iconic Bondi Beach, has stood as a landmark destination on one of the world’s most recognised and photographed coastlines. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, our venue has become synonymous with elevated dining, exceptional service, and memorable experiences that continue to attract both local and international guests.Now celebrating 23 years, at its heart lies the intimate and refined Dining Room, where a constantly evolving menu showcases modern Australian-Italian cuisine—rooted in regional traditions and shaped by seasonal Australian produce. Icebergs Group has evolved to include Icebergs Harbour Bar at Crown Sydney and now Icebergs Caffe to Go and Icebergs Bar and Kitchen at Sydney Airport’s Qantas Domestic Terminal.
