The Best Restaurants in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Came for breakfast on a rainy day with sister. Short walk from either central or redfern station for non drivers. First impression: Minimalistic open plan interior you get a great view when you first walk in. Nice and dark interior, great if you're hung over. Great feel and ambience, polite greeting and efficient table service with sociable staff. Menu: Well priced, black coffee is 2.50 and white 3. Creative spin on classic breakfasts. Loads of sides options with the food as well. Coffee: Super fruity short black with a great after taste. Smooth long black. Picollo: delicious, perfect temp, smooth, creamy. Food: Nailed it. The Merchant was spot on. Smashed beans w/ avo👌. Softest bread, fresh and quality ingredients. Flavours went well together, even with sides. This place is going to kill it! Won't be surprised if we have to line up for 40 minutes next time we visit! Good effort!

It's full of suits and meat but what is not to like about the beautifully redecorated former home of Etch that has now been taken over by the juggernaut that is The Meat & Wine Co. If you are a carnivore, it's hard to go wrong. The 350g rib-eye is superb and the half rack of pork ribs is cooked such that meat simply glides off the bone. Any place where you get to wear a bib to dine has got to be okay, right? The wine list is good and is heavy on the Australian side with a nod to some South African wines which is where the company hails from. It's all too easy to sit here an entire afternoon for a long lunch as the staff bring more red, a cheese plate or two and you finish with a nice sticky wine. It's a dangerous business meeting that uses this place as a luncheon location. Well worth a visit but make to take your wallet!

Awesome venue for a relaxed yet tasty dinner in the city. Best oysters I've had in Sydney. Highly recommend the chicken lollipops and the tbone steak to share!

I really like the food at China Doll, and love Woolloomooloo as a spot for dinner! The salt and pepper prawns are amazing, the the stir fried eggplant is good too. The sago pudding is also really good and surprisingly light. The service is pretty slow because they have too many people managing each table, and the beer list is a little light. Overall definitely worth a visit!

One of the first trips Alicia and I took on our whirlwind adventure through Sydney Australia. A great place to stop in, grab a drink and relax for a minute before passing out from jet lag.

Great burgers, great location. Will definitely come back. Chips were flavoured well but weirdly not crisp, don't think i liked this. Cheeseburger was solid AF and the ebi burger had some great flavours and textures going in.

Great spot...best pub meal I have had...

A relatively long wait, but otherwise, an interesting Israeli/Middle Eastern take on modern café fare.

Coffee: Seven Seeds / Reuben Hills / Mecca / Small Batch Passion: 10/10 Crema: 10/10 Having just removed the only 10/10 cafe from my list, I was a little weary giving another one away, but I am finding it exceedingly difficult to fault anything about Paramount. Sure they have only open now for 2 weeks, and the shine will come of eventually, but... wow. Talk about potential for coffee experience. Did you notice that I listed four different roasters? That is because these guys grab a bean, ship it off to the different roasters, and then you get to compare and contrast the different flavours that the roasters can extract from it. AWESOME! Starting with a pour over served cold from Small Batch Roasters of Melbourne and their Colombian El Descanso, I loved being able to sit at the bar are watch the entire process of the coffee being made from start to finish. The experience was clean and precise. The coffee was elegant in its simplistic complexity. Simple as in it is a pour over on ice, and complex as the extraction time, weight, measured delivery of water and controlled cooling with ice. It had a heavy aroma of red delicious apples, and a robust yet mellow body. As a cold coffee, much of the expected tart cranberry was hidden, but the aftertaste was smooth and almost chocolatey. As it warmed back to room temperature, much more of the cranberry appeared and the chocolate turned into peanut as I breathed out. Such an awesome experience. Next up came Mecca with their Colombian El Descartes and it smelled... juicy. Already salivating before drinking I was surprised to not really get a massive whack of anything specific. It was rich, dark, and... requiring a bit more cooling down. As it did, a soft acidity balanced the rich flavour but did leave my tongue feeling dry. All round the experience was much more mellow than the Small Batch. I am so tempted to just sit here and drink their entire menu but should probably leave something to experience next time. But when you come here, and you should, sit at the coffee bar, ask the barista what they recommended and go for that. Sure, they could make you a latte but.... why.... N.B. No #powerwhoring is available No public WiFi is available

Great service and delicious Ramen. Asahi on tap if you like beers.

After discovering Din Tai Fung in Sydney on a previous trip, I went to the single location in the USA - Arcadia. And while delicious, the ones in Sydney are fantastic. So much so, I am now returning with my wife and daughter. Highly recommend the pork dumplings, bacon and greenbeans and the veggie rice.

Verdict: Tacos that pass the taste-test of even a native Californian - and for $5?! Yes, please. El Loco is located on Faveaux Street in Surry Hills inside the Excelsior. It's Dan Hong's new venture and having been to both Ms.G's and now El Loco - I'm pretty sure I'd be a fan of anything Dan Hong cooked up. We've ordered all of the tacos and my favorites are the Al Pastor (pork with pineapple salsa), the Cameron (prawn with salsa verde) and the Pollo (chicken with sweet corn salsa). The tacos are small, but surprisingly quite filling. My one complaint - $13.50 for a teeny tiny margarita in a plastic cup? Okay fine...since that $5 taco was delish, but really?!

Quite pricey, but great Italian gelato

Loved will be back for the Coffee and Avocado dish

An English style pub run by the people behind The Barber Shop