The beating heart of Sydney’s dining scene.
Whether you're after coffee, a sweet treat or a full-blown meal.
Surry Hills, where you can do a bar crawl that includes a leading natural-wine bar, a pub with 15-plus taps of beer, an internationally a...
Dulwich Hill's cafes are illustrative of the inner-west's enormous cultural diversity. The only thing these places have in common are gre...
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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.
Charcoal-roasted meats and sides, paired with a choice of 300 wines.
Forget everything you know about Lebanese food.
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.
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.
A sharp restaurant and bar from the team at Bulletin Place. Naturally, it serves great cocktails.
An ambitious yet down-to-earth set-menu restaurant from former Farmhouse and Dead Ringer chef Tristan Rosier.
The super-popular “inauthentic Indian” restaurant from Melbourne and NYC serves up butter chicken without the butter.
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.
The pizza bases here are proved for four days so they’re light and easy to digest, then topped with only a couple of ingredients, including buffalo mozzarella imported from Italy.
A colourful vegan-friendly pasta and spritz bar.
Noisy, spicy and lots of fun, just like the original in Melbourne.
An oversized bento box-like Japanese eatery and sake bar.
A little French bistro with hidden, shady courtyard out back.
Line up for luxurious, velvety ramen made with the help of science.
This Merivale bar is home to the tacos secretos – a sort of lucky dip for tacos, where the filling is a surprise until it reaches to your table. Secretos or not, each taco is around $7. We recommend the DIY platters, which are better value for money (and more fun). Try fillings such as baked eggplant and soy-chilli bean sauce or sirloin steak and chimichurri.
mac'n'cheese croissants and cocktails for breakfast.
Top contender for Sydney’s smallest restaurant, Raita Noda is an eight-seater Japanese kitchen in Surry Hills.
Authentic Vietnamese street food and a long list of Asian beers make this mini-chain a winner.
Northern-Italian pizza, pesto lasagne and cocktails.
Vacanza embodies the Italian “less is more” approach to pizza. There’s a neat list of pies and a calzone for good measure. There’s also dedicated mozzarella bar full of imported Italian cheeses. Need we say more?
A pasta retailer turned restaurant.
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.
A Japanese dining experience with Western legs.
Authentic Neapolitan street food in a bright, modern setting.
Not every pizzeria can say it has an Italian flour technician at the pass. And the proof is well and truly in the dough here (there’s more than one kind depending on what you order). But it’s the genre-bending toppings that truly stand out: past pizzas on the menu have been loaded with anything from pureed pea to smoked turkey.
A restaurant and bar focusing on the melding of Japanese techniques and flavours with Peruvian produce.
Sneakers and champers to go with your fried chicken.
A traditional Sydney pub with a Central American twist.
Get your fill of Japanese-inspired burgers.
Contrasting colours and layered textures –Sáng pushes the boundaries of Korean cooking.
Authentic Neapolitan pizza on Crown Street.
A fresh, tasty, and simple seafood paradise.
A colourful restaurant showing India’s whimsical side.
This Surry Hills diner channels typical kebab joints but with a few improvements. Everything’s made in-house, there's booze, fancy instant coffee and not a fluorescent light to be seen.
One of Queensland’s buzziest burger joints is also on Foveaux Street.
Sushi that won't break the bank.
A tiny restaurant serving a very different kind of Malaysian food.
Some of the best light ramen in Sydney.
An industrial-looking local with Thai-inspired brunch.
A cosy, izakaya-style Japanese bar diner with a downtown vibe.
A Vietnamese institution in Surry Hills.
Dumpling dinner with a happy ending.
A Spanish-French menu built around daily market adventures, whole beasts, croquettes and lots of cider.
Too Korean to be called modern Australian, but not traditional enough to be called classic Korean.
There’s udon noodles with miso bolognese, and whisky slushies.
An Izakaya with food to challenge fine-dining Japanese restaurants.
An vegetarian favourite on Sydney's Crown Street strip.
A low-down, boozy affair with Southern barbeque.
