{"id":955308,"date":"2026-11-07T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955308\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:04:20","slug":"powerhouse-parramatta-opening-live-updates-sydneys-new-powerhouse-museum-opens-to-public-ceo-lisa-havilah-suspension-allegations-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955308\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerhouse Parramatta opening LIVE updates: Sydney\u2019s new Powerhouse museum opens to public; CEO Lisa Havilah suspension allegations linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head chef of Aria, Simon Sandall, has 150 staff including waiters and chefs on deck staffing its on-site museum restaurant, Simara, coffee shop, Folded, its level three The Green Bar, and a mobile cart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are expecting a tsunami. It\u2019s going to be a fun day,\u201d he says. \u201cMy mission is to go back to good old-fashioned hospitality, a smile on the face and a big welcome. Hospitality got a little bit lost over the last few years. I want to bring warmth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Sandall is running the Powerhouse\u2019s restaurant and cafe.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/60884e6ce81d95c7b609a8b437bc28d34525420c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Simon Sandall is running the Powerhouse\u2019s restaurant and cafe.Audrey Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Simara is offering a wood-fire grill, cooked over redgum wood. In line with the green theme, its Green Bar, part of the Level 3 bespoke cinema, is offering green toffee apples and green popcorn with a dill pickle flavour and soft-serve ice-cream, and at the cafe a monster jaffle filled with spaghetti and cheese for the kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at Aria for the controversies at Circular Quay \u2026 that whole Toaster building is now iconic and the Powerhouse will be an icon,100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former head chef of Aria, Simon Sandall, has 150 staff including waiters and chefs on deck staffing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-955308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}