The co-owner of a popular pet-friendly pizza restaurant in Sydney's inner-city has been charged with supplying a menu of party drugs including magic mushrooms.
Andrew 'Hamo' Hamilton, from Surry Hills, opened Brooklyn Crispy at Potts Point a week before Christmas, with offbeat offerings including pizzas for dogs.
It was a bold move into the hospitality industry for the 35-year-old private school graduate after a career in public relations working for global firms.
While early trade for Brooklyn Crispy was strong and reviews positive, Hamilton was allegedly running a side business selling magic mushrooms, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and LSD.
Andrew Hamilton, the co-owner of a popular pet-friendly pizza restaurant in Sydney's inner-city, has been charged with supplying a menu of party drugs including magic mushrooms. Hamilton is pictured at Brooklyn Crispy at Potts Point
Hamilton, opened Brooklyn Crispy at Potts Point a week before Christmas, with offbeat offerings including pizzas for dogs. It was a bold move into the hospitality industry for the 35-year-old private school graduate after a career in public relations working for global firms
Located in the heart of Kings Cross on Springfield Avenue, Brooklyn Crispy has an on-site meat smoker and leafy courtyard, but is most distinctive for welcoming pets. A dog holding a pizza box is pictured on the restaurant's Facebook page
Hamilton, whose Facebook profile says he is 'sillier than most', was arrested at his home in Fitzroy Street on June 4 by the Surry Hills proactive crime team.
Police allegedly found 17 grams of cocaine, 43.7 grams of ecstasy, and 8 grams of ketamine, a sedative which induces a trance-like state and is used medically for anaesthesia.
They also allegedly located a commercial quantity (413 grams) of psilocybin, known as magic mushrooms, and 3.4 grams of lysergic acid, or LSD, along with $12,450 in cash.
The St Ignatius's College Riverview old boy was taken to Surry Hills police station and appeared before Parramatta Bail Court the next day when he was remanded in custody.
He was charged with two counts of supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, two counts of supplying an indictable quantity of drugs, supplying drugs and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
Hamilton opened Brooklyn Crispy with a partner who has more than 20 years' hospitality experience, and an accomplished executive chef.
'Brooklyn Crispy was born from a desire to deliver quality crispy pizza to the people,' its website states. 'Somewhere along the line, people started to take pizza a bit too seriously'
The quirky menu includes 'caffeinated cow' (coffee and cola brisket topped with corn and potato salad), and 'yes it says pineapple get over it' (ham/salted pineapple/mustard) pizzas
