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Where to dine along Glebe Point Road and beyond.
A suburb with the best Thai restaurant strip in Australia, regional Chinese dining and the best picks from the ambitious Darling Square p...
Newtown's smaller sibling has more than its fair share of excellent diners – here are our favourites.
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Where Sydney’s taxi drivers go for late-night Pakistani.
Chef Dan Pepperell and his dream have brought a new wave of French dining to Potts Point. On the menu you'll find boudin noir (blood sausage) spring rolls, escargot pasta and steak frites. Plus, there's a drinks list by the Swillhouse Group's former sommelier.
This is the long-awaited Sydney outpost for the beloved Japanese dining empire, and it's brought its signature miso cod along for the ride. Dine on salmon-sashimi tacos and evaporate-in-your-mouth nigiri, knock back "sushi cups" and enjoy some aged sake.
Come here for a playful, subtly Australian-inflected take on Italian cuisine.
There’s 250 bottles of mainly low-intervention wine from Italy and Australia, and a rotating menu of pasta that changes daily.
A moody Mexican laneway diner in an old CBD printing shop. The upstairs restaurant serves tacos al pastor, a one-kilogram Wagyu rib eye and a sweet potato dessert. Downstairs there's a bar with more than 200 mezcals and tequilas.
Drinks and snacks reach new heights at this not-restaurant from the team at Ester.
High-quality produce cooked over a naked flame, with no sauces to hide behind.
Tasty, unctuous ramens and izakaya-style snacks.
At Acre’s second Sydney venue, dine on Italian food made with ingredients grown on-site, pick up house-made pastries and cakes, and hang out with chooks.
Caviar bumps, vintage booze, barbequed abalone – Mimi’s might just be Merivale’s magnum opus.
Reviving French splendour in an old-fashioned setting.
Charcoal-roasted meats and sides, paired with a choice of 300 wines.
Enjoy artful, surprising degustations at this understated diner. Inside, it's all about sleek dark timbers – but it's the outdoor drinking and dining that really shines. A table outside by the water on a warm day is the ideal setting for a long, spritzy lunch.
A cosmopolitan Italian diner with enough marble to sink a ship. It’s a spin-off of Matteo’s in Double Bay, and the pizza is just as good. This place has a few of its own moves though – notably, a mozzarella bar which receives a fresh batch of the good stuff each morning.
In the heart of the CBD, Bentley offers dishes that reflect a reputation for innovation.
Forget everything you know about Lebanese food.
A wood-fired oven, an open-flame hearth and some of the country’s best produce and cocktail bar underneath.
In 2020, this waterside Sydney favourite changed its menu to focus exclusively on seafood. And it's all the better for it. The views out over Middle Harbour, combined with the fantastic seafood, make this one of Sydney's best – and most serene – dining experiences.
This elevated vantage of Bondi’s sloshing surf is one of Australia’s great views – one a less conscientious restaurateur might easily lean on. Not Maurice Terzini, who’s been pushing his resplendent Italian diner to greater and greater heights since 2002.
This Mexican diner's menu is entirely plant-based, and it's all the better for it. If you're a veg-lover and a fan of Mexican flavours, this is the spot for you. When your tortilla's loaded with charred cauliflower, guacamole and pickles, you won't even noticed meat's gone.
Where a wood-fired oven is fed with produce sourced from Sydney and surrounds.
Settle into the handsome dining room to tackle the 180-bottle-strong wine list, or grab some takeaway slushies from the old coffee window. Plus, there's excellent house-made pasta.
The menu is à la carte, the wines are by Giorgio De Maria, and – as at the original – the food is still groundbreaking.
A fun, energetic take on fine dining headed by ex-Momofuku Seiōbo chef Clayton Wells.
Moody jazz, heavy wooden beams and a bank of barbeque ducks in the old Tank nightclub space. A modern Shanghai-style dumpling den from Dan Hong and Merivale.
Matt Moran's fine-dining restaurant inside Barangaroo House.
A sharp restaurant and bar from the team at Bulletin Place. Naturally, it serves great cocktails.
The menu is ever-changing, but you can always expect to find fresh oysters and pasta at this European eatery. Plus there’s complimentary house-made bread.
Not quite Neapolitan, not quite New Yorker – the pizza at Bella Brutta is a style all of its own. Expect a puffy, blistered crust, a sag-proof base and a raft of creative toppings (a slice of the white clam pie with fermented chilli is a must). From the teams behind LP’s Quality Meats and Porteño.
Descend the stairs into a labyrinthine den of lush velvet booths, flowing booze and a menu that champions Black Angus rib eye.
Thai cuisine by David Thompson, the world’s most lauded Thai chef.
This restaurant surrounded by lush gardens is serving a modern-Asian menu inspired by Luke Nguyen’s heritage.
This Surry Hills pub got a shake-up in 2020 – but it’s still one of Sydney’s best all-in-one wine bars, restaurants and boozers.
An oversized bento box-like Japanese eatery and sake bar.
Apart from sides, there's only one thing on this menu: T-bone steaks, sold by weight.
The CBD has some of the best cocktail bars in the world, but there’s a surprising lack of venues with a focus on vino. Monopole, with its clever mix of snacking and thoughtful drinks list, changes that.
The cuisines of the East Mediterranean from a former Quay chef.
A plant-based Italian eatery in the inner-city. Get handmade gnocchi done three ways, creamy lasagne plus more.
A place where seasonal, healthy food is the focus, southern Italy is the inspiration and diners are encouraged to stick around for a couple of drinks after their meal.
The spiritual successor to its former tenant, Limoncello. The southern Italian vibe here has been nailed, which is no surprise given the hospitality guns running the show. But it’s all about the pizza – perfectly light, elastic dough that won’t leave you bloated and lethargic.
Burgers, craft beer, minimal intervention wine, thumping rock music and a fern-filled outdoor dining space with 30 seats. And the whole menu can be ordered vegan.
A bowl of cacio e pepe, a glass of Roman wine and a seat outside in Rushcutter’s Bay.
The team behind Bopp & Tone, The Butler and The Botanist have given this institution a $1.5-million makeover that pays tribute to its past.
Exceptional dim sum with glistening, seafood-stuffed dumplings and saucy pork ribs. Completed by a homely RSL vibe, this is the yum cha king of the south-west.
Authentic Neapolitan street food in a bright, modern setting.
Try its take on tonkotsu.
This heritage-listed waterfront venue serves up French bistro classics.
The Newtown takeaway-focused outpost of Western Sydney’s favourite chicken shop offers all of the favourites, plus Southern-style fried chicken
The standard-setter for fine dining in Sydney. Executive chef Peter Gilmore is tireless in his pursuit of what’s interesting, new and Australian. His backyard is peppered with test plantations of rare vegetables, he works with local ceramicists on custom crockery and he’s a leading advocate for native produce. The restaurant’s theatrical tasting menus show off all this and more, bolstered by some of the city’s best harbour views.
