Sydney Highlights From Dine Out, Broadsheet’s Debut Food Festival

Last week, Broadsheet ’s debut food festival Dine Out swept through Sydney, with 43 events across seven days.

From an absolutely stacked city-wide specials board, Pantry Story’s custard-filled croissant handbag was the favourite. People wanted it before Dine Out, hundreds were made during the fest, and it proved so popular the Stanmore team’s keeping it on the menu for the rest of the month. There were Laming’tins from Continental Deli and Tokyo Lamington, whopping T-bones served in one of our prettiest dining rooms and a sweet dose of nostalgia for a CBD dessert trolley.

Wednesday night posed the biggest problem for the indecisive diner – there just too many options. Mimi Wong jazzed up Attenzione’s Italian-ish menu with her exceptional energy and Cantonese flavours. Pop-up queens Babs cooked over fire at Ester Spirits. The Firepop team took diners on a one-night-only Wagyu journey. Rosheen Kaul dropped by the beachy Table Manners kitchen. Italy met Argentina with Tipo’s Andreas Papadakis jetting up to cook with Alejandro Saravia at Morena. And the Studd siblings threw a cheesy party in the Ace Hotel’s lobby bar. Phew.

Our editorial director hosted one of the first services at Neil Perry’s flash new venue, a star Chicago chef jetted in to cook tacos with Toby Wilson, and The Bat & Ball became a Creole tavern for a night. Then, the Pavonis hosted a very special set menu that took you, course by course, to each of their six venues; the PS40 cocktail RV parked up in Petersham; and Hey Rosey, one of our favourite regional wine bars, took over Odd Culture for a funky Sunday session.

It was a blockbuster week, with so much effort from the chefs, venues and partners making it what it was – a smash hit.