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After a fire, a pop-up and a Covid-19 shutdown, Nomad has returned to its original Foster Street home. Enter for smoked free-range chicken, wood-roasted eggplant with flatbread, and a six-week dry-aged rib eye.
Relax with "Mar-tinnies" and tinned seafood.
This "taberna" in a former seafood shop wants to transport diners to Lima's grungy dive-bar scene and educate them about pisco.
Sydney’s most influential burger joint.
Sydney's first new distillery since the 1850s serves an impressive range of original cocktails made with its own vodkas, gins and whiskies. Tasting flights are also an option.
Drink, dance, shoot pool and snack on Eastern Europe’s finest.
This Crown Street gin hub has a still making small-batch spirits just for Sydney, and a shop selling gin and gin-related goods. To find Eileen’s Bar, look out for the discreet doorway and ascend the staircase.
This Rocks cocktail bar – which is considered among the best in the world – is inspired by the opulence and excess of Las Vegas in the late '50s. It's the cocktail-focused counterpart to the Maybe Frank pizza joints and is the elder sibling of Sammy Junior and Dean & Nancy on 22. The reason for all the acclaim is simple: Maybe Sammy combines flawless service with singular cocktails.
Bodega has joined up with Wyno, together the venue is now known as Wyno x Bodega. There’s a bigger focus on vino, a smaller menu and fan favourites, the fish fingers and banana spilt, are still available.
Track down this dim, intimate speakeasy and you'll be rewarded with more than 800 whiskies and bartenders who know what to do with them.
An intimate vibe and 300-strong wine list make this one a date-night home run.
The sister venue of Love, Tilly Devine is perfect for a date night of snacks and wine.
Woolloomooloo’s great-grandfather of a pub has an ex-Momofuku Seibo Chef in the kitchen and a celebrated indie theatre downstairs. The 150-year-old bolthole has outlasted many of its operators, but this latest incarnation – from the Odd Culture (The Oxford Tavern, The Duke Of Enmore) team – might be the best one yet.
Word of warning: don't bother bringing a large group to this tiny mezcal-centric laneway bar – even if it were completely empty, you probably wouldn't fit. It's by the team behind Tio's Cerveceria. The friendly, knowledgeable staff here will help you navigate the cracking cocktail list with confidence (and you might even end up ordering Sydney's best Margarita).
The successor to Chippendale's Freda's channels the spirit of the original late-night haunt into a buzzing sit-down bar and diner in the heart of Sydney's nightlife district.
You’ll need to locate the discrete ground-level entrance and then climb four levels of steep, narrow stairs to reach it. But you'll be rewarded by a killer rooftop bar – with an adjoined cocktail bar – where you'll be in amongst the CBD's highrises.
The follow up to Newtown's distinctive tinned cocktail bar offers all the same thrills: cold cuts, cheese, canned goods, fine wine and stiff drinks.
Walk down a long corridor and knock three times on the brass pineapple to enter for cocktails and homey bites.
A gin bar that covers 200 years of cocktail history.
Italian swagger in Sydney’s most experimental wine bar. Chef Dan Pepperell’s legacy lives on in his unshakeably spectacular pretzel with whipped bottarga, but Trisha Greentree’s farm-to-plate focus across the daily menu brings even more panache to this gamechanging Paddo institution.
Eat octopus cooked on the plancha, buffalo mozzarella on lemon leaves, and cured meats paired with vermouth cocktails at this seaside eatery open until 3am.
There’s a water feature with a huge buddha head, an illuminated technicolor jungle motif and stone-stacked walls covered in vines. It’s straight out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Italian food, drinks and hip-hop served until 3am. Yes. Big Poppa's is low-key one of Sydney's best places for cheese-lovers – whether you like it on a platter or inventively deployed across a range of pasta dishes.
Whisky, cognac and "shit tinnies" are your reward for finding this rowdy bar. Just look for the three skulls.
Barbequed chooks, vino and fake grape vines from the Arcadia Liquors and Redfern Continental team.
Gin cocktails, seasonal creations from a beautiful German-made still and a bar styled like a church.
No sign, no fancy cocktails, but lots of locals at this Oxford Street hideaway.
This is a buzzing South American-inspired cocktail bar and diner by the teams behind Gin Lane and Eastside Bar & Grill. Expect ingredients such as spiced worm salt and grasshoppers, Margarita "trees", and more than 100 types of mezcal and tequila.
A Miami Vice themed bar with an appropriately tropical cocktail menu to match.
Both food and wine have equal billing at this European-style venue that blurs the lines.
The plush Sydney outpost of one of New York’s – and the world’s – best cocktail bars.
Live music and hardly any food over $20, from a Mary’s burger-flavoured pizza, to American-Korean nachos.
Lobster rolls, killer cocktails and city views worth toasting.
From the team behind Salt Meats Cheese, a rooftop bar (with glimpses of the Sydney Harbour) serving barrel-aged Negronis and antipasto.
The smallest venue at Coogee Pavilion is packed with spritzes, Martinis and snacks. It’s also open till late on weekends.
Local DJs, craft beers and beer-flavoured lamingtons bring the RSL into the 21st century.
Look behind the old wood door at the back of the Cove deli and you'll find The Cumberland – one of Sydney's finest underground bars. The drinks list includes 250 whiskies, an impressive wine cellar and three distinct cocktail lists. Plus a hearty food offering that includes melty raclette.
There are 25 wines by the glass and chocolate boards for dessert.
Esquire takes its cues from New York's supper clubs, and is a seamless fit for the Queen Victoria Building.
A champagne parlour and bar in the QVB with views out over George Street. There are more than 150 champagnes and sparkling wines here that run the gamut from A-list producers to smaller-scale labels. If bubbly isn't for you, there are cocktails – signature and classic – as well as a menu of pan-European food.
A standing-room-only tapas bar with mini cocktails and Spanish snacks.
A whisky bar in a former opium den/bootmaker’s workshop/doss house.
An upmarket, three-storey pub from the Goodtimes Hospitality Group.
Another rum-heavy bar from the team at Lobo Plantation, but this time the theme is Paris Liberation Day.
Bring your dog, play some basketball. This pub is all about community.
This cocktail bar, which sits atop the Hotel Palisade, is a ritzy affair that's a strong contender for Sydney's best view. It looks right out onto the harbour, and includes views of our famous bridge.
Sit under a lush green wall, cocktail in hand.
A down-home, friendly bar doing booze, food and music in Marrickville.
In 2020, this spot relaunched as a tiki-inspired cocktail bar. The drinks are tropical, the bartenders are English and the shirts are flamboyant.
A quintessential Sydney location. This is one of the best views of Sydney harbour you'll find anywhere. And Opera Bar doesn't just coast by on its good looks: the drinks here are great, too. The hardest thing about a trip here is getting a table.
