HAPPENINGS
We’re thrilled to welcome fine-dining Los Angeles-based chef, H Woo to Aru’s kitchen for a one-night crossover.
Self-taught, H Woo first started cooking and presenting his fine-dining dishes via underground supper club Maru Los Angeles, eventually garnering attention as a content creator. He has since collaborated with world-renowned restaurants across Spain and the United States.
Over dinner at Aru, he will be bringing his inventive approach, drawing on the cuisine that inspires him most: Japan.
Expect dishes including Blue Fin Tuna Tartare with Antonius Caviar and Lacto Tomato Gelee, Matsukasa Tilefish with Smoked Dashi Butter, and more. Aru’s signature dishes have also been re-spun, the Spanner Crab Toast topped with uni, the Dry Aged Duck with a Confit Duck Korokke with Fermented Truffle Jus and Shiso, and the Claypot Broken Rice with Dashi Marinated Salmon Roe and H Woo’s ‘Mum’s XO’.
Presented in partnership with Mise en Place Gourmet Food, supplier of Antonius Caviar for the evening.
Friday 23 January
From 6pm | $195
Food & beverage pairing available | $300
Private Dining
Ensconced away in Aru is our private dining room, Banda, which fully closes up to the rest of the restaurant. The rich, timber-encased space seats 12, with doors that offer seclusion.
Banda opens up onto The Terrace – an impressive landing with a view of our cellar. Here, you’ll find a grand long table set-up, a favourite amongst wedding parties, birthdays and celebrations of all sorts. The Terrace is separated from the dining room by a mesh curtain and seats 30. Both spaces can be booked separately or together.
We are delighted to offer additions for event bookings, including a wood fire grilled signature black rib eye MB4, and a Fire & Grain whisky pairing experience, where a special menu is paired with premium whiskies from The Balvenie. Both of these additions require advance notice.
In The Press
The Age Good Food Guide 2026 – Two Hats
The Age Good Food Guide 2025 – Two Hats
Australia’s Wine List of the Year 2025 – Three Glasses
The Age Good Food Guide 2023 – Two Hats
The Age Good Food Guide 2023 – Victoria’s Restaurant of the Year
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants – 50 Best Discovery
Gourmet Traveller – Review
The Age Good Food – Review
About
Named after the group of islands which ancient seafarers frequented as part of the Sino-Indonesian-Australian route, Aru draws on the cuisine of the three regions. Asian dishes deftly flecked with native Australian ingredients, grilled or finished over the wood-fired hearth.
In this beautiful, moody space of marble, mesh, wood and brick lies some of the city’s most renowned dishes and an impressive cellar list – a destination for a coming together of cuisines and cultures.
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