The late Wolfie Pizem at his restaurant at The Rocks in 1996.
The Mediterranean-inspired Vaucluse ’masterpiece’ of a beloved Sydney restaurateur and his wife has just hit the market.
Wolf ‘Wolfie’ Pizem — behind the Coachman in Redfern, Wolfie’s, The Waterfront and Italian Village— died in 2024 at the age of 96.
Now the five-bedroom, five-bathroom residence that he shared with his wife, Karen, at 36 Parsley Rd, Vaucluse has been listed in an expressions of interest campaign closing March 3 via Ray White Double Bay’s principal Elliott Placks and Adam Reichman.
The agents are yet to set a price guide, though they’re using the previously unreported $25.5m purchase of 33 Parsley Rd by Annie Conley, daughter of the late aviation pioneer and philanthropist John Conley, in December, as a comparable.
And also the recent $21m sale of the 4 Parsley Rd, Vaucluse home of mechanic Steve Davidson and his wife Carmen, owners of the Bondi Junction Auto Services garage.
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The house was created by award-winning architect Bruce Stafford and previous owner world-renowned interior designer Serena Crawford.
It’s been designed for entertaining.
“It’s a Mediterranean-inspired residence of remarkable scale,” says agent Adam Reichman.
The Pizems had bought the home, created by award winning architect Bruce Stafford and its then owner world-renowned interior designer Serena Crawford, in 2005 for $6.1m.
They’d snapped it up within days of being listed.
Placks is expecting the home to be popular this time round as well.
“The house is a masterpiece and it’s right in Parsley Bay reserve,” he said.
“It’s a very unique and specially designed home that’s set up for entertaining.”
Co-agent Adam Reichman added: “Homes of this calibre are extraordinarily rare in Vaucluse.
“The collaboration between Bruce Stafford and renowned designer Serena Crawford has produced a Mediterranean-inspired residence of remarkable scale, luxury, and exclusivity made even more exceptional by its direct access to Parsley Bay Beach.”
The Pizems had snapped it up within days of its listing.
Full of natural light.
There are five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Full of natural light, the tri-level residence on a 556 sqm block features bespoke interiors with a large living area opening via French doors to an outdoor area covered in Bougainvillea.
It’s just a short walk to Parsley Bay Beach.
Pizem had worked alongside the star chef Neil Perry to create his Rockpool restaurant in the 1980s.
“He was a fabulous restaurant and one of the original real restaurateurs of the sixties, seventies and eighties,” Perry told The Daily Telegraph at the time of Pizem’s death.
Perry said Pizem was a “a pillar of the Jewish community” as a lifelong member and former president of the Newtown Synagogue.
Wolfie had previously been an owner in Woseley Rd Point Piper and famously tried to have his section of the street turned into a gated community.
He and Karen had bought the 783sqm property with waterfront pool and private jetty at 112 Wolseley Rd for $160k in 1978 and sold it for $15.15m in 2003 to the convicted murderer Ron Medich and his wife Odetta for $15.15m.
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