Best Restaurants in Sydney, Australia
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Sydney is a cosmopolitan city, and the range of dining options reflects this. There is a great range of cafes, bars and restaurants to suit all tastes, styles and budget, but a few stand out as being iconic.
According to the critics the number one restaurant in Sydney is Tetsuya's, which offers a menu fusing Japanese flavours and French technique. Tetsuya's is ranked in the top ten of the World's 50 Best Restaurants list. It is expensive and costs anything from $150 to over $200 per head to dine here so you need a good excuse or a healthy bank account, but you will enjoy the experience.
Rockpool is the only other Sydney restaurant to make it into the World's 50 Best Restaurants list. Seafood is a staple here, as it is in many other leading dining venues, as Sydney is a harbour city with a busy Fish Market supplying fresh prawns, mussels snapper, octopus and much more. Doyles at Watsons Bay is perhaps the best known seafood eatery in Sydney, and has breath-taking views.
Recently Quay (at the Overseas Passenger Terminal) was named The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide's Restaurant of the Year for 2008. It has a stunning location with spectacular food and uses herbs and vegetables grown in their own kitchen garden in the Blue Mountains.
Other quality restaurants include ARIA at Circular Quay, Universal Restaurant in East Sydney, The Bathers Pavilion at Balmoral Beach, Guillaume at Bennelong, which is situated inside the Sydney Opera House and Aqua Dining at Milsons Point, which is across the bridge, so take a ferry.
For nearly 30 years, Capitan Torres has been one of Sydney's most popular Spanish restaurants with, delicious sangria and incredible paella. Great Italian food is served at Mezzaluna and Gelbison, Greek at Mykonos, Eastern European at Corner 75 and French at Bistro Moncur and Sel et Poivre. There are numerous wonderful Asian restaurants and for vegetarians Harvest is excellent.
However, Sydney has a dining option with a difference that has been around since 1938, is on the National Trust Register, and has been frequented by celebrities including Frank Sinatra and Elton John. This is Harry’s Café de Wheels at Woolloomooloo where you can sit on the wharf and eat a pie floater for a unique Sydney dining experience!