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Read MoreAria
Aria Restaurant has a central location on Circular Quay and a view to match its award-winning menu. French-trained chef-owner Matt Morant contributes to Sydney’s fine dining scene with an elegant culinary experience based on seasonal produce. The dining room is...
Courtesy Rachel KaraRead MoreChiswick Woollahra
Located 15 minutes from downtown Sydney and in a greenhouse, the beautiful farm-to-table Chiswick Woollahra serves seasonal fare like house made focaccia, wood-fired eggplant with chickpea miso and flank steak with heirloom carrots.
Courtesy Ester RestaurantRead MoreEster
With an industrial-chic interior, Ester is a trendy spot serving eclectic dishes that feature unusual ingredients. Begin with the roasted rock oysters with horseradish emulsion before the cauliflower with almond sauce and mint or whiting filet with smoked whey and...
Courtesy MerivaleRead MoreFred’s
Located in Paddington, Fred's (from an ex-chef of California’s iconic Chez Panisse) is focused on sustainability and serves dishes such as blood orange salad and pappardelle with braised goat.
Courtesy NomadRead MoreNOMAD
Located in a renovated warehouse in the hip Surry Hills, NOMAD serves Middle Eastern–inspired cuisine like grilled haloumi and wood-fired flatbread with za’atar.
Photo by Jude Cohen, Copywrite Callay Kitchen LTDRead MoreNour
The Lebanese Nour restaurant in Surry Hills has street-side seating and dishes like spiced cauliflower, hummus and wood-fired duck.
Read MoreQuay
One of Sydney’s most lauded and awarded restaurants, Quay features a dramatic dress-circle position on the harbor and near-faultless food. (This is definitely a big-night-out style restaurant, with prices to match, so don’t be surprised to get a case of...
Read MoreRed Lantern
This is the kind of spot that locals desperately try to keep secret (I know, I used to live around the corner), but this modern Vietnamese restaurant -- founded by brother-and-sister team Luke and Pauline Nguyen in a converted fire-engine...
Photo by Nikki ToRead MoreSaint Peter
In the stylish Sydney suburb of Paddington, whose culinary scene matches its incredible shopping, foodies are flocking to the seafood restaurant Saint Peter, which serves oysters along with such bites as snapper sausage and egg on an English muffin.
Read MoreSake Restaurant & Bar
Located in the Rocks district, Sake Restaurant & Bar is a Japanese restaurant with a fun atmosphere, craft cocktails and tasty cuisine, including popcorn shrimp with yuzu chili mayo and nori crisps with tuna and sesame dressing.
Read MoreTetsuya’s Restaurant
Widely considered the finest restaurant in Australia, Tetsuya’s takes Japanese-French fusion to new culinary heights. The eponymous Tetsuya Wakuda—who emigrated from Japan in 1982 with little more than a dream of opening his own restaurant—is probably the most humble celeb...
Photo by Nikki ToRead MoreThe Apollo
A modern Greek restaurant with an industrial-chic dining room and street-side seating, the Apollo is a stylish spot to enjoy bites like saganaki cheese with honey, BBQ octopus with potato and oven-baked lamb shoulder with lemon yogurt.
