“Look, I’m confident enough that my offering will match the view, how’s that for hubris?”

Talking to Broadsheet, one month away from opening the doors on Sydney Tower’s completely reimagined revolving restaurant, Mark Best lays it straight. “My little catch phrase is, ‘Come for the view, stay for the hospitality’.”

One of my first “fancy” dining experiences – as a teen, tripping into the big smoke from the Central Coast – was in this very spinning dining room. The speed of those rotations had captured my curiosity since childhood. The whole building, known commonly as Centrepoint Tower, is special to a lot of other Sydneysiders, too. “We’re hoping to get all the Millennials back,” Best says.

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He’s working with Trippas White Group, the team behind dining in the Opera House, Botanic House and more. And, according to Best, the partnership’s been in the works for a while.

“Where does anything start?” he says. Working with the group on a 3000-person charity dinner years ago, Best was impressed by the exec chef Tony Panetta’s organisation and agility. So they kept in touch. Last October, he worked with Trippas on the National Gallery of Australia’s gala fundraiser. “It just was such a good event, and there was such a good feeling. Tony said, ‘Look, I think I might have something for you’, and we started the conversation about the tower.”

The sleek 90-seat space – with its world-class views of Sydney – is currently closed for the refresh. On August 13, it will reopen as Infinity by Mark Best. “It’s not going to be Marque 2.0, you can’t cut and paste. You have to see what the building needs. You know, it’s a very specific premises – as are all restaurants – and you need to go and see what feels right, look at the demographic, see what the building means to the city.”

As for the menu: “I just really want to showcase Australia on a plate, without being, you know, nationalistic or jingoistic – or all the -istics. You know what I mean? Like, without being glib about it, it will represent my experience as a Sydneysider. I live up in the Cross, I look at the tower every day. So it’s my experience as a chef, living and working in this amazing city.”

The opening menu includes finer snacks like Coffin Bay oysters topped with grilled sea foam and toasted crumpets carrying local urchins. There’s a pretty dish of steamed grouper with fermented potatoes and sorrel, and Magra lamb neck with pickled radishes.

Infinity by Mark Best opens in Sydney Tower on Wednesday August 13, 2025.