All the New Sydney Restaurant, Bar and Cafe Openings We Got Excited About in September 2025

• First look: one of Sydney’s very best ramen joints is back – bigger than ever on Stanley Street. Find the same Tokyo-men serve, the same jazzy prawn toast and more room to play.

• The Clam Bar trio takes on the “mother” of all cuisines at Grandfathers, a red-lit Angel Place dining room dedicated to the Guangdong and Sichuan regions – with a daily yum cha, supper till 1am and MSG Martinis.

• First look: Crumb is your ticket to lasagne toasties and Calabrian brekkie sangas, from a couple who were bored by the “sameness” of brunch.

• Soonhi Banchan, a family-owned Korean deli, is a spot for shopping cart essentials – and a favourite among top Sydney chefs, for kimbap, pickled wild garlic and kimchi with family heritage.

• First look: Papi’s Birria Tacos finds a permanent home for its “holy trinity of beef” – and the response to its bronzed, cheesy tacos and Tijuana-style al pastor has been “ballistic”.

• First look: Sydney’s first dedicated Jamaican patty bakery opens on Glebe Point Road. The sunshine-hued pastry is laminated with 27 layers of butter, delivering spectacularly flaky crust for five flavours – including a generations-old beef recipe.

• Family-run fine diner Jaaks has had a vibe change. Now an ex-Efendy chef is powering a mezze-centric menu, with charcoal-grilled souvlaki, Cypriot sausages and honey-drenched halloumi.

• First look: The Corner brings a slice of the inner-city wine bar scene to Palm Beach – from a team that’s pivoting from its instantly recognisable beachy aesthetic. The menu’s ever-changing: maybe tomatoey crudo, or steak, skin-on fries and dressed leaves.

• Adhika delivers Filipino brekkie to Darlinghurst. Go for the loaded pan de sal and a sweet leche flan latte – or the fluffy, extremely photogenic ube matcha.

• Everything Melbourne loves about modern Chinese diner Lee Ho Fook is now in Sydney – with Victor Liong bringing his greatest hits to The Porterhouse Hotel. That means eggplant slicked with spiced red vinegar, BYO Mondays and more.

• Stanmore’s pint-sized Baking 101 goes big on fluffy cinnamon scrolls – crowning them with a dollop of whipped vanilla cream.

• Noodle robots, bottomless Korean hotpot and … shark-shaped shoes? Hitang has it all.

• At Tommy Panini, Bondi’s new panuzzo purveyor, baked sandwiches arrive like laundry: fresh, crisp, folded.

• First look: za’atar knot or cinnamon scroll? The choice is tough at Martha’s, a bakery in an inner west suburb just five blocks wide.

• Foli transforms a warehouse, on a quiet Campsie block, into a go-to for cinnamon scrolls, salt bread, citrusy lemon madeleines and more – all from a kitchen talent who sharpened her skills at Seoul’s artful Garuharu and Tartine.

• Eat at Robs, a takeaway burger joint out the front of a butcher shop, is absolutely smashing it –drawing crowds from across town for its Oklahoma smash burgers.

• First look: a sweet new northern beaches cafe – with a 10 William St chef on the team – is keeping things fine and dandy with house-baked cakes, brekkie classics and straightforward sangas.

• First look: a Marrickville favourite for cream-topped cold brews opens in Potts Point, with Japanese brunch dishes, butternut toasties and two-toned matcha.

Additional reporting by Lucy Bell Bird, Lucy Brewer, Howard Chen, Jasmine Crittenden, Dan Cunningham, Ben Hansen, Lee Tran Lam, Callum McDermott and Bineeta Saha.