Book Now: Final 20 Events Revealed for Dine Out, Broadsheet’s Debut Food Festival

It’s nearly time for Dine Out, Broadsheet ’s debut festival. Expect a week-long, city-wide celebration of Sydney’s dining scene – it’s going to be big.

In partnership with Mastercard, Square and Cat Amongst the Pigeons, we’re staging 40 events across the city, featuring Sydney’s best chefs, restaurants, bars, bakeries and more.

We just announced the first half of the program – which includes The World’s Dirtiest Martini Bar, the “lost dishes” of Thailand and Andreas Papadakis of Tipo 00’s trip to Sydney for an Italian Argentinian feast in the CBD. There’s a double happy hour that’ll have you tag-teaming Cantina OK and Herbs Taverne all week long, too, and one Redfern boozer is becoming a Creole tavern for a night.

But we know all that. Here are the final events and dishes for Dine Out 2025. All tickets are available at dineout.broadsheet.com.au.

Heavy-hitting, one-night-only dinners

Neil Perry just announced Gran Torino, his Italian restaurant taking over the Song Bird space in Double Bay. As part of Dine Out, the celebrated chef and Broadsheet ’s editorial director Katya Wachtel are hosting a Tuesday-night family-style meal, for one of the very first services.

In Newtown, Firepop’s chef-owner Raymond Hou is taking diners on a Wagyu journey, sharing the story and experimentation behind his expertise. In Surry Hills, a pair of Masterchef alums – Ogni’s Rashie Hasan and Sarah Tiong – are resurrecting (and reinventing) the dishes they originally made on the show (for two nights, not one – bonus).

With their newly minted hospo group Maestro, the Pavonis do it all: breezy waterside dining rooms, moody inner west osterias, sleek restaurants in casinos and more. Dinner With the Maestros will have you spending Friday night devouring their most iconic dishes of the last 16 years. Think Ormeggio’s snack selection to start, Postino Osteria’s veal saltimbocca and A’Mare’s tableside pesto.

The same night, in the CBD, Junda Khoo’s Ho Jiak Town Hall will host two chefs with similar connections to Chinese cuisine: Masterchef alum and prolific cookbook author Brendan Pang and Chinese-ish author and pop-up queen Rosheen Kaul. Expect three snacks, three entrees, three shared mains and one dessert.

Saturday night means a sky-high supper party, at Kiln on the Ace Hotel rooftop. There’ll be fancy snacks (sliders! Saltbush-seasoned chippies! Trout roe-topped waffles!) a wine list by Drnks and a killer soundtrack from local DJs.

Collaborations

Ahanica is the event tripping through India’s bakeries – and there’ll be plenty of wine. Head to the Hot-Listed Kolkata Social, where head chef Ahana Dutt is making room for Fabbrica Bread Shop’s head baker Aniruddha Bhosekar. Their carby set menu includes buttery chicken puffs, spicy kheema pau and more, plus cardamom-scented mawa cake for dessert.

A very special iteration of PS40’s much-loved Tuesday Takeover brings 20 Chapel ’s Corey Costelloe to the kitchen (you bet there’ll be plenty of Wagyu). And at Theeca in Darlinghurst, the Das Juice team is flying in from South Australia for a natty wine party.

On Wednesday night, Masterchef alum Mimi Wong is hitting the Attenzione kitchen, delivering a playful Cantonese set menu together with head chef Toby Stansfield. A char sui pineapple pull-apart to start, then fried mochi dumplings, funky skewers, dan dan mussels with longevity noodles, and more. Or head to Marrickville for Fermenta! The Marrickville distillery party bringing hospo duo Babs (Ellie Hayes O’Brien and Bec Shave) to Ester Spirits, for standout drinks and a snacky menu where fermentation meets fire.

Proving Wednesday is a tough line-up to choose from, Melbourne’s Rosheen Kaul (ex-Etta) is jumping into the Table Manners kitchen with head chef Luke Churchill for a creative collaboration presented with Cat Amongst the Pigeons.

Hugh Piper (ex-Dear Sainte Eloise) – the chef from outstanding regional wine bar Hey Rosey, in Orange – is zipping to Newtown, bringing plenty of country produce for a Sunday sesh at Odd Culture. Together with exec chef Alex Haupt, he’s serving an à la carte menu of punchy small plates.

At The Waratah, teeny izakaya darling Nomidokoro Indigo is taking over the public bar downstairs – with Japanese-meets-Aussie cocktails, an izakaya-inspired Sunday roast and umami-forward snacks.

Mapo is scooping collabs from two ace venues. Corner 75’s head chef Carley Scheidegger is leading a pair of Hungarian-leaning flavours: cheese scone and apple strudel. And there’s a fruity sorbet – with pomegranate, hibiscus and citrus – from Newtown’s Pleasure Club (where there’ll be a week-long cocktail special to pair).

Week-long specials

In Barangaroo, Callao is serving Raices de Dos Mundos – a special menu celebrating Nikkei cuisine – all week long. While in Newtown, chef Luke Powell is taking his Bella Brutta pizzas to Germany and Hawaii, topping rounds of his charcoal-spotted Neapolitan dough with his new schinkenwurst (“ham sausage”), roasted pineapples and chilli.

If you find yourself out late in the CBD, pastry star Rhiann Mead is keeping your night sweet. Her spectacular dessert trolley – rolling between tables at The Charles – is getting a nostalgic makeover for Dine Out. Find schmick takes on Wagon Wheels, neenish tarts, Iced Vovos and more.

In addition, a bunch of venues are putting on special drinks, dishes or entire menus for Dine Out: Butter, Cafe Cressida, Cho Cho San, Otto, Shadow Baking, Ursula’s, Vermuteria, Woodcut.

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Broadsheet’s Dine Out festival debuts in Sydney, from August 11 to 17, 2025, after its run in Melbourne from August 4 to 10, 2025. There are 80 events across the two cities.

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Dine Out Sydney – second round venues

Attenzione x Mimi Wong
Fabbrica Bread Shop x Kolkata Social
Ho Jiak x Brendan Pang x Rosheen Kaul
Table Manners x Rosheen Kaul
Babs x Ester Spirits
Corner 75 x Mapo
Odd Culture x Hey Rosey (Orange)
Kiln
Firepop
Gran Torino
Bella Brutta
Ursula's
Ormeggio at the Spit
Cho Cho San
PS40
PSGO x Public House Petersham
Otto
Theeca x Das Juice (SA)
Cafe Cressida
Vermuteria
The Waratah
Shadow Baking
Woodcut
Callao
Butter
Ogni
The Charles