Restaurant Find: Pasture of Balmoral Sydney
It’s hard for the cosy, coastal interior design (featuring exposed brick peeking in one corner; restored stairs; a crisp white moulded ceiling; and all original sash and double-hung windows) to compete with the view of the rotunda and Balmoral Bay. But the corner-set Pasture Balmoral gives it a very good crack.
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Restaurant Find: Sasaki Sydney
If you weren’t looking for it (or if you didn’t know about it), you might be hard-pressed to find Sasaki, Yu Sasaki’s namesake Sydney restaurant. Since opening in April, the dinner-only venture ”“ Sasaki’s second; he also runs the matcha mecca Cre Asion café next door ”“ has turned out a menu inspired by the […]
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Restaurant Find: The Provincial Sydney
It’s the robust meat, from the three-tired smokeless grill, that this restaurant is known for ”“ pork chops or beef cuts cooked atop charcoal made from apple or grape wood. But make sure you leave room for dessert – painstakingly placed edible flowers, sharp granitas, and assorted textured bits are composition notes in the symphony of sweet […]
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Restaurant Find: Harry’s Bondi Sydney
Harry’s Bondi, a former convenience store-turned-cafe-turned-restaurant off the main drag in Bondi Beach, serves some of the best hotcakes in town. Chef Bryan Callaghan is all about dietary awareness, serving gluten-free, sugar-free dishes rich with nutrition and edible flowers. His plant-based dishes don’t skimp on size; they’re full-bodied in flavour and colour. Quinoa fritters (a […]
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Restaurant Find: Lucky Suzie Sydney
Zacharay Tan has a talent for synthesis. At Lucky Suzie Sydney, he combines the best of his other venues (Devon Cafe’s cosiness, the style and creativity of recently-closed Devon on Danks, and the forward-thinkingness of recently-opened Devon at Barangaroo) with a heavy dose of passion and a stellar team. The fit out, like the other […]
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Restaurant Hotspot: Bistrot Gavroche Sydney
Let’s skip straight to dessert. It’s worth considering the art of the Paris-Brest: a crunchy, sweet ring of pastry, filled with a hazelnut cream and its centre occupied with chocolate ice cream, is perhaps the tangible exemplification of this slice of Paris in the centre of Sydney. Bistrot Gavroche Sydney, one of the newer installments […]
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Restaurant Find: Bills Bondi Sydney
Sydney’s brunching status could have something to do with the mostly-great weather or the volume of outdoor locations. It could be because of the national demand for avocado toast or it could be because of Bill Granger. Granger, one of Australia’s most revered chefs, owns a collection of restaurants across Sydney (as well as a […]
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Restaurant Hotspot: The Boathouse Sydney
When the sun sets over Sydney’s Blackwattle Bay, it’s a sight to behold ”” and there is no better vantage point to take it in than a window-side table at The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay, a seafood-focused restaurant with immense talent and great culinary concepts at the helm. Inside a former boathouse, and located opposite […]
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Restaurant Find: Automata Sydney
(This Automata Sydney story by Jenny Nguyen-Barron first appeared in ForbesLife) The words ”˜chic’ and ”˜car garage’ have not been familiar friends, until now, thanks to the recent opening of Automata at Sydney’s Old Clare Hotel. The new restaurant, which has opened in the midst of Chippendale’s neighborhood food renaissance marries raw, industrial style with contemporary […]
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