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Restaurants where the kitchen runs the room, not the marketing.
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Oncore by Clare Smyth
Barangaroo, Sydney CBD · NSW
Clare Smyth's first restaurant outside London, opened November 2021 on Level 26 of Crown Sydney with the harbour spread directly below.
Saint Peter
Paddington · Sydney
Josh and Julie Niland's whole-fish-butchery restaurant, opened on Oxford Street in 2016 and relocated in 2024 to the heritage Grand National Hotel in Paddington.
Sixpenny
Stanmore · Sydney
Daniel Puskas and James Parry's 1907 terrace house on Percival Road, Stanmore, opened March 2012 and named for the Sixpence restaurants of late-1800s Australia.
Margaret
Double Bay · Sydney
Neil Perry's Double Bay restaurant, named the No.
Bennelong
Opera House · Sydney
Peter Gilmore's Opera House restaurant under Head Chef Rob Cockerill, ten years into the partnership and held at two hats in the 2026 Good Food Guide (16/20).
Firedoor
Surry Hills · Sydney
Lennox Hastie's all-fire kitchen on Mary Street: no gas, no electricity, two wood-fired ovens, three grills, and a wood-burning hearth.
LuMi
Pyrmont, Sydney · NSW
Federico Zanellato and his wife and head sommelier Michela Boncagni's two-hat waterfront on Wharf 10 at Pyrmont, opposite The Star.
Shell House Dining Room & Terrace
Margaret Street, Sydney CBD · NSW
Joel Bickford (Culinary Director) and Aaron Ward (Head Chef, ex-Bathers' Pavilion, ester, LuMi, Sixpenny) on the ninth floor of the heritage Shell House on Margaret Street.
Ormeggio at The Spit
The Spit, Mosman · NSW
Alessandro and Anna Pavoni's contemporary Italian on the Mosman waterfront, opened 2009 and hatted continuously since.
Restaurant Hubert
15 Bligh Street, Sydney CBD · NSW
The Swillhouse Group's flagship, opened January 2016 in a basement on Bligh Street, beneath the Sydney CBD.
ARIA Sydney
Circular Quay · Sydney
Opened December 1999 by Matt Moran (chef) and Peter Sullivan (restaurateur), partners since the Paddington Inn Bistro of 1991; now Moran's flagship under Solotel ownership, with…
Bentley Restaurant + Bar
Sydney CBD · Sydney
Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt's restaurant, opened March 2006 in a former Surry Hills pub and moved 2013 to its current grander address inside the Paradox Sydney (formerly Ra…
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Chippendale · Sydney
Mat Lindsay's wood-fire restaurant on Meagher Street, the small Chippendale fine-dining outlier and a genuine destination kitchen.
The Grill at The International
25 Martin Place, Sydney CBD · NSW
Joel Bickford (also Culinary Director at Shell House) and Head Chef Alex Keene's live-fire CBD steak and seafood room at 25 Martin Place, in the multi-format International precinct.
Eleven Barrack
Sydney CBD · Sydney
Bentley Group's wood-fired grill at 11 Barrack Street, in the high-ceilinged 1849 First Savings Bank of New South Wales building.
AALIA
Sydney CBD · Sydney
Executive Chef Paul Farag's Middle Eastern fine-diner at 25 Martin Place, opened 1 March 2022 and earning two Good Food Guide hats within months.
Yoshii's Omakase
Barangaroo · Sydney
Chef Ryuichi Yoshii's omakase counter at Nobu, Crown Sydney.
Sokyo
Pyrmont · Sydney
The Star Sydney's Japanese restaurant since November 2011, opened by ex-Nobu Executive Chef Chase Kojima, born and raised in San Francisco.
Ora
8 Danks Street, Waterloo · NSW
Executive Chef Nobuyuki Ura's ten-seat kaiseki omakase counter at 8 Danks Street, on the Waterloo-Redfern border in the Danks Street precinct.
Haco
Alberta Street, Surry Hills · NSW
Keita Abe (also Chaco Bar) and Kensuke Yada (ex-Sasaki) opened Haco on Alberta Street in Surry Hills, next door to Alberto's Lounge.
Le Ho Fook Sydney
Porter House · Sydney
Victor Liong's two-hat Sydney outpost of his Melbourne new-Chinese flagship, opened 17 September 2025 in the heritage-listed Porter House Hotel building on Castlereagh Street and…
King Clarence
Sydney CBD · Sydney
Bentley Group's pan-Asian restaurant at 71 Clarence Street, opened first week of December 2023 with Khanh Nguyen as Executive Chef (returned to Sydney after running Sunda and Aru…
Allta
Surry Hills · Sydney
Chef Jung-Su Chang's modern Korean fine-dining room on Reservoir Street in the Sydney CBD, two hats for two consecutive Good Food Guides.
Yellow
Potts Point · Sydney
Founded 2013 by Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt of the Bentley Group, transitioned to vegetarian in 2016 in the corner-store building on Macleay Street, Potts Point, and sold i…
Bathers' Pavilion
Balmoral · Sydney
The 1929 art-deco beach pavilion at Balmoral, run by the Pagent family since Serge Dansereau's departure in March 2021 after twenty-plus years.
Pilu at Freshwater
Freshwater · Sydney
Giovanni Pilu and his wife Marilyn Annecchini's Sardinian fine-dining room on the rocks at Freshwater Beach, north of Manly, opened 2004 and held at two hats every year since 2005.
Rockpool Bar & Grill
Sydney CBD · Sydney
Neil Perry's steakhouse, on Hunter Street since the early 2000s, now run by Executive Chef Santiago Aristizábal under Hunter St Hospitality after Perry retired in July 2020 and t…
Otto Ristorante
Woolloomooloo · Sydney
Twenty-five-year-old Italian on the Finger Wharf at Woolloomooloo, under Head Chef Richard Ptacnik since 2004 (Prague-born, with European stints in Berlin and Switzerland).
Catalina Restaurant
Rose Bay · Sydney
Michael and Judy McMahon opened Catalina in 1994 on the lawn at Lyne Park, on the original Rose Bay flying-boat base from which Qantas Empire ran flights to London until 1974.
Porcine
Paddington · Sydney
Veteran chefs Nicholas Hill, Matt Fitzgerald, and Harry Levy's small French bistro above the P&V Wine & Liquor Merchants outpost on Oxford Street, Paddington, opened March 2021.