sydney deli

Love Supreme

PADDINGTON

Pizza done just right on Oxford Street.

Ugly Pizza

CARINGBAH

A new New York-style pizzeria that also hides a secret venue.

Ugly Pizza

CARINGBAH

A new New York-style pizzeria that also hides a secret venue.

Grumpy Donuts

CAMPERDOWN

A permanent store for the once online-only US-style doughnuts.

Zeus Street Greek

SYDNEY

Greek street food with a gourmet twist.

Tandoori Hut

ENMORE

Enmore Road’s perennial late-night Pakistani joint. Newtown kids gravitate towards the excellent tandoori, but past midnight, the taxi driver set fuel up with flash-fried Lahore-style curries and stews ordered off the special menu (the staff write it in biro on the back of a docket).

Happy as Larry

SYDNEY

A pizza truck so good, it turned into a full-blown restaurant. Pizza is front and centre, topped with twists on classics. A middle eastern bent elsewhere on the menu is another surprising turn.

Plantgirl

ENMORE

This place aims to empower new plant parents to find joy and confidence in plant care, selling “hard-to-kill” plants like devil’s ivy, heartleaf philodendron, Monstera Deliciosa and the Zanzibar gem. Aside from those low-maintenance varieties, there’s a focus on vivid ceramics – which you can bundle with coffee, chocolates and more as a handsome gift for someone special.

Harvey’s Hot Sandwiches

PARRAMATTA

A nostalgic, subterranean sandwich diner dedicated to big, hot and tasty sandwiches. Find all the classics from a French dip to a Turkey Club, along with Nashville fried chicken, shoestring fries and house-made ice-cream.

Messy Spoon

SURRY HILLS

A tiny vegan wholefood kitchen and bakery by a former Jamie's Italian chef. Rock up to the takeaway window for baked goods free from gluten and refined sugar – including avo toast on slices of sprouted quinoa loaf, bliss balls, banana bread and more.

The Corner Deli by Lox in a Box

MARRICKVILLE

The first dine-in venue from Bondi’s Lox in a Box is serving Sydney’s first bagel high tea. Head to the old old Cornersmith site to try it – or maybe some hot salt beef on rye, or a stellar brisket burrito.

Yappari Steak

SYDNEY

Direct from Japan, this steakhouse lets you choose from three affordable cuts of meat, then watch as it’s slapped on a super-hot stone to cook at your table.

Taste of Canton

ZETLAND

This fluorescent-lit slither of a diner, which shares its corner site with a car wash, serves the silky cheung fun owner Lingqi Yang remembers fondly from her childhood in Guangdong, China. You’ll also find classic Cantonese street food like siu mai and black bean spare ribs.

The Essential Ingredient

SURRY HILLS

Everything you need for your kitchen, and state-of-the art cooking-class facilities. Plus a cheese counter with local and international specialties.

Ampersand

PADDINGTON

This Paddington bookseller does food, drinks and books. And what a combination that is. Every book across its three levels is second-hand, with regular bargains to be had. The website is constantly updating, with titles landing daily – even if they’re used, the rotation keeps things feeling new.

About Life

BONDI JUNCTION

Each of these minimarkets is packed with organic, ethical and biodynamic groceries and diet-friendly takeaway meals.

Sonoma Bakery - Glebe

GLEBE

A truly impressive array of artisan bread.

Hudson Meats

MOSMAN

Top quality meat.

Kakawa Darlinghurst

DARLINGHURST

Like Tiffany's for chocolate

Formaggi Ocello

SURRY HILLS

A cheese lover’s paradise.

Burnt Orange at The Club House

MOSMAN

Amazing food with an amazing view to match, what more could you want?

Sonoma Bakery

GLEBE

It's more than likely you will have eaten – or at least heard of – Sonoma. Its sourdough is the loaf of choice for many cafes, delis and providores across Sydney. We’ve usually got one on the go, too.

Brasserie Bread Cafe

BANKSMEADOW

The best thing since sliced bread.

Youeni Foodstore Castle Hill

CASTLE HILL

A third offering from the Youeni team.

Simon Johnson

WOOLLAHRA

Sydney’s most famous providore makes for a glorious, neatly presented ode to food.

Le Creuset

SYDNEY SOUTH

The cult French cookware brand opens its first Sydney outpost.

Gourmet Life

EDGECLIFF

Filled with imported foodie treasures you won’t find anywhere else.

Williams-Sonoma Inc.

BONDI JUNCTION

The cult North American homewares brand's first non-franchised store outside of the States.

Marrickville Organic Market

MARRICKVILLE

A bohemian farmers' market in the yard of a vintage warehouse.

Zensation Tea House

REDFERN

A temple of tea, with yum cha to match.

Peppe's Pasta

HABERFIELD

The Cook’s Grocer

ROZELLE

No time to shop or cook? Here’s a service doing it all for you.

The Source Bulk Foods

BALMAIN

The Source Bulk Foods stores in Balmain and Willoughby are providing a relaxed, old-fashioned shopping experience.

The Source Bulk Foods

BALMAIN

The Source Bulk Foods stores in Balmain and Willoughby are providing a relaxed, old-fashioned shopping experience.

Alpha Food Store

SYDNEY

Greek food go-to, Alpha Restaurant in the CBD, has opened an adjacent Food Store selling street staples.

Alpha Food Store

SYDNEY

Greek food go-to, Alpha Restaurant in the CBD, has opened an adjacent Food Store selling street staples.

Gewürzhaus

SYDNEY

A spice shop with every pungent powder you can think of.

Boon Cafe and Jarern Chai

HAYMARKET

Find this cavernous Thai grocer and cafe in the heart of Sydney’s Thai Town. Despite serving burgers, bowls and pasta, Boon doesn’t mix elements of Thai and western cuisine – it reimagines them like they always belonged together.

Naked Foods Bondi Junction

BONDI JUNCTION

A grocery selling organic and locally sourced products by the gram.

Mercatino

BONDI

Bondi’s La Piadina has an integrated produce and art store attached.

Broth Bar & Larder

BRONTE

Organic, ethical and unprocessed, the cult of bone broth comes to Bronte.

Osteria Emilia

SURRY HILLS

A pasta retailer turned restaurant.

Alfalfa House

NEWTOWN

A community of likeminded individuals dedicated to sustainable-living practices.

Maker

PETERSHAM

For all the best vegan food and products in Sydney.

OzHarvest Market

KENSINGTON

Take what you need, give if you can.

Village Wholefoods

MARRICKVILLE

Buy in bulk, with zero waste.

Connetts Corner

NORTH BONDI

A fine goods supermarket meets health food store.

Theo’s Cecinas

FAIRFIELD

Frozen in time, a Chilean butchery with a long history.

The Tamaleria & Mexican Deli

DULWICH HILL

Rosa Cienfuegos has been instrumental in shaping Sydney’s Mexican dining scene. At her tiny inner west shop, you can grab her cult tamales freshly made, or grab all the ingredients to make them yourself. Plus, street-style tacos and Mexican specialties you won’t find anywhere else.

Panlasang Pinoy

KOGARAH

A tiny grocery store with a Filipino barbeque, karaoke and a cult following.

Juno and Sons

ELIZABETH BAY

A neighbourhood corner store where you can add organic soy sauce, fragrant Spanish garlic and Adelaide-grown apples to your basket. But not before you chill on the windowsill seat with a coffee and a slice of the cake of the day.

Berkelo Manly

MANLY

This is one of the only bakeries in the state with an in-house stone mill, which means it can buy wheat direct from farmers. Its loaves contain no artificial additives and are left to naturally leaven, spending at least 18 hours cold fermenting.

Grocery & Grog

MARRICKVILLE

Marrickville pub The Henson has launched an on-site grocer and bottle shop.

Small's Deli

POTTS POINT

This petite, takeaway-focused sandwich shop at the leafy end of Potts Point offers no-nonsense sangas, strong coffees and a few bits and bobs for the pantry. There’s also a good range of salads, sweets and pastries.

Good Ways Deli

REDFERN

A cafe, deli and bakery serving up sangas and treats inspired by school canteens, country bakeries and other nostalgic Australian references. There's a big emphasis on native ingredients, plus you can grab pickles, condiments and more to take home.

Frank's Deli

WAVERLEY

Anchored by its owners’ Polish heritage, this new-wave deli and cafe is big on sandwiches with sliced cheese, pickles, and thick cuts of meat.

Filipino Fiesta

KOGARAH

A Kogarah grocer selling Filipino snacks along with provincial fare you’d find along the Filipino coast: noodle soups, homey pork dishes and stews. Its boodle fights – a hands-on communal feast of rice and various toppings wrapped in banana leaf – are extremely popular. Book ahead if you’re keen to try one.

Loulou

MILSONS POINT

An all-day bistro, bakery and French deli serving a slice of Parisian life north of the bridge. Pick up a coffee and kouign-amann in the morning, pop in for salade niçoise and chardonnay at lunch, and get a fresh baguette at any time of day.

Fish Butchery Waterloo

WATERLOO

The sequel to Josh and Julie Niland's Paddington original ups the ante with dine-in seating and an expanded takeaway menu. Come for the famous yellowfin tuna cheeseburger, plus fresh seafood, cookbooks and fish butchery masterclasses.

Odd Culture

NEWTOWN

A theme of fermentation guides this cavernous King Street bar. Find a dizzying list of funky farmhouse ales, ciders and natural wines, plus a Euro-inspired all-day menu by a formidable kitchen team.

Drnks

ALEXANDRIA

Like its cyberspace counterpart, Drnks bricks-and-mortar bottle shop stocks one of the country’s best selections of natural wine. You’ll also find Aussie spirits and beer, plus pantry items and ferments. Best of all – prices here are the same as online.

Ardi's Block to Grill

SURRY HILLS

An artisan butchery with a mini restaurant attached taking on the supermarkets by offering cut-to-order meat .

Penny’s Cheese Shop

POTTS POINT

Sydney's top fromagerie is the one-stop shop for the world’s best handmade and farmhouse cheeses and its accoutrements.

Soul Deli

SURRY HILLS

A casual cafe spinoff of Korean favourite Soul Dining. Not only does it serve traditional dishes and cafe classics with a Korean twist, it’s also selling homewares and clothes by local Korean designers. Plus house-made tofu, Korean pickles and sauces to take home.

Fiore Bread

MCMAHONS POINT

A compact terrazzo bakery modelled on an Italian alimentari, where you can grab everyday staples like bread and condiments for the pantry. But do you need a focaccia sandwich filled with mortadella every day? Of course you do.

Little West

HABERFIELD

In a space that’s sat empty for two decades, this petite cafe is serving modern spins on Aussie classics, including smoked brisket sausage rolls with bush tomato sauce, and chocolate and golden syrup dampers. Also, a layered muffuletta sandwich that takes two days to make.

Fabbrica

SYDNEY

A deli, wine store and by-the-gram pasta shop from the Love Tilly Group. You can also take a seat inside for a quick aperitif and sandwich.

Huelo

NEWTOWN

The cocktail guns behind Old Mate’s Place and Ginny’s Canoe Club have landed on King Street – with a swish wine bar and retail space up front, and an ’80s-tinged bar and courtyard out the back.

Three Blind Mice

MASCOT

Taste your way through the provedore’s cheese selection, including Australia’s first buffalo-milk blue cheese and a handcrafted cheddar aged in a silo in Kiama. Then journey to the salumi bar packed with local and international meats.

Three Blind Mice

MASCOT

Norma’s Deli

MANLY

At this epic Greek deli off the Corso, you can start the day with toast smothered in house-made taramasalata and return after a day at the beach for moussaka and a classic Greek lager. Plus, takeaway sourdough, cheese and charcuterie.

Domo 39

ST PETERS

A light-filled cafe inspired by the convenience stores of Japan. Come for bento box lunches, Japanese soft serve and iced coffees spiked with yuzu. From the teams behind Kurumac and Mapo Gelato.

Uncut Seafood Delicatessen

BONDI

Described as “the Fendi of fish shops”, this elevated seafood eatery is by a family of fourth-gen fishmongers. Come for crispy-skinned fillets fired over a lava grill. Or some whole fish and freshly shucked oysters to take home.

Cafe 143

BRONTE

This cosy spot in the old Three Blue Ducks space is led by a US barista champion. The coffee is as good as you’d expect, but the unpretentious vibe is bang-on for Bronte. Come for good coffee and bargain deli rolls in the pastel-pink laneway.

Pistou

NEWTOWN

This laid-back Provençal wine bar is all about small producers and easy decisions. There are just three drinks on the regularly changing cocktail list, a short food menu and a streamlined selection of wines. Plus, a choose-your-own-adventure weekend brunch plate.

Good Ways Deli

REDFERN

Kosta's Takeaway

ROCKDALE

A “no bullshit” sandwich deli doing cold-cut layered paninis, cracking chicken-schnitty rolls and spectacular salad sangas. Served from a canteen-style window next to a smash-repairs workshop in Rockdale.

Frank's Deli

WAVERLEY

Anchored by its owners’ Polish heritage, this new-wave deli and cafe is big on sandwiches with sliced cheese, pickles, and thick cuts of meat.

Good Ways Buckland

REDFERN

Good Ways Deli’s petite second sanga shop lives inside a heritage-listed corner spot on a leafy residential street. Like the original it’s doing updated versions of Aussie classics, plus exclusive menu items including creaming soda spiders, a very oozy cheese toastie, and cheese-and-spinach rolls.

Vermuteria

KINGS CROSS

At the site of the legendary Cafe Hernandez, this Spanish bar honours the former tenant with big barrels of house blended vermouth, banging cocktails and tapas including tinned seafood and a famous four-cheese toastie.

The Corner Deli by Lox in a Box

MARRICKVILLE

Famelia

NEWTOWN

Sommelier Amelia Birch’s spot on Enmore Road offers rotating wine flights, with bottles you can taste before taking home. Snacks include black-truffle-and-squid-ink salami, and a caviar-topped egg dip made from a secret family recipe.

Cut Lunch Deli

RANDWICK

A lockdown sandwich obsession is now a sunny, deli-style eatery with a strong sanga game. Its owner – a trained pastry chef with experience at Quay – is serving up a Korean fried mushroom and kimchi slaw sanga, a Hetty McKinnon-inspired miso, Vegemite and cheese toastie, and freshly baked burnt-butter choc-chip cookies.

Beer Fontaine

BOTANY

Some of Sydney’s wildest beers come from this South Sydney brewery – but it’s not all avant garde. Come for a genre-defying tap list and a borderless food offering from a variety of pop-up kitchens.

MLK Deli

SURRY HILLS

There are seven ripper sandwiches and a breakfast brisket roll at this Central Asian deli. Plus Coffee Supreme coffee, homemade cookies, and Turkish smallgoods to take home.