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Things to do in Sydney: the full list behind the map

This interactive map of Sydney (Australia) brings together 105 hand-picked places: 28 attractions, 41 restaurants, 18 cafés and 18 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.

· Curated by the HOLASIM team · How we make the maps

Walking routes in Sydney

Tap a route to see it drawn on the map, stop by stop.

Iconic harbour

3.5 km · morning · The Rocks–Opera House · 6 stops

  1. Harbour Bridge (Pylon Lookout)
  2. The Rocks
  3. MCA (level 4 terrace)
  4. Sydney Opera House
  5. Royal Botanic Garden
  6. Mrs Macquaries Point
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Bondi to Coogee coastal walk

6 km · morning · east coast · 6 stops

  1. Bondi Beach
  2. Bondi Icebergs
  3. Mackenzies Point
  4. Bronte Beach & Baths
  5. Clovelly Beach
  6. Wylie's Baths (Coogee)
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Surry Hills + Darlinghurst food crawl

2.5 km · midday to night · Surry Hills · 6 stops

  1. Single O (coffee)
  2. Reuben Hills (brunch)
  3. Bourke Street Bakery
  4. Firedoor (fire)
  5. Nour (dinner)
  6. Gelato Messina (last stop)
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Newtown and the cool Inner West

4 km · Saturday · Chippendale–Newtown · 6 stops

  1. Kensington St (Chippendale)
  2. Ester
  3. Carriageworks Farmers Market
  4. King Street Newtown
  5. Black Star Pastry
  6. Continental Deli
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Sunset from Barangaroo to Watsons Bay

12 km · afternoon and evening · ferry across the harbour · 6 stops

  1. Barangaroo Reserve
  2. Crown Sydney · Oncore
  3. Circular Quay (ferry F4)
  4. Milk Beach (Vaucluse)
  5. Doyles on the Beach
  6. The Gap (sunset)
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Things to do in Sydney: top attractions

World icon

Sydney Opera House

Bennelong Point · UNESCO

Utzon's sails up close: take the inside tour, or just arrive by ferry at sunset.

Tip: The best angle isn't head-on: walk to Mrs Macquaries Point or grab a drink at Opera Bar.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8 + ferry

Featured in: UNESCO · #1 Sídney

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Free crossing

Sydney Harbour Bridge

1932 · The Coathanger

The 1932 steel arch: walk across on the eastern footway, 20 minutes and free.

Tip: Climb the Pylon Lookout (200 steps, ~AUD 27): same view as the Climb for a tenth of the price.

🚇 Milsons Point — T1/T9

Featured in: Ícono 1932

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Top adrenaline

BridgeClimb Sydney

The Rocks · 134 m

Climb the bridge arch in a harness: 3.5 hours of steps and the highest view over the harbour.

Tip: The Summit Twilight is the one in every reel: book two weeks ahead.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Colonial Sydney

The Rocks

Barrio fundacional 1788

Sandstone laneways, Australia's oldest pubs and the weekend markets.

Tip: Duck into Nurses Walk and Suez Canal: the passages almost nobody finds.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1788

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The harbour's lungs

Royal Botanic Garden

Junto a la Ópera · gratis

30 free hectares next to the Opera House, with cockatoos, ibis and the harbour's best picnic.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8 / Martin Place — T4

Featured in: Gratis desde 1816

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The Sydney shot

Mrs Macquaries Point

Mirador · Domain

The only spot where the Opera House and the bridge fit in one photo. Come at sunrise.

Tip: Sunrise beats sunset: the light hits the sails head-on and nobody's there.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8 (20 min walk)

Featured in: Viral IG/TikTok

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Beach #1

Bondi Beach

Playa más famosa de AU

A kilometre of sand, surfers and the real Bondi Rescue. Swim between the flags.

Tip: The north end is calm for swimming; the south is for surfers and strong rips.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Ícono nacional

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Global viral

Bondi Icebergs Pool

1929 · pileta oceánica

The 1929 pool where the waves break over the edge: ~AUD 10 and you're inside the postcard.

Tip: Closed Thursdays for cleaning. Come 7-9 AM: perfect light, no queue.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Iconic walk

Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk

6 km sobre acantilados

Six clifftop kilometres with five beaches, rock pools and zero excuses.

Tip: Do it Bondi to Coogee in the morning and ride the 373 bus back. Bring water: little shade.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333 (start)

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Local favourite

Bronte Beach & Baths

Bronte · pileta natural

The locals' beach: rock pool, a park with barbecues and no tour buses.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 379

Featured in: Local pick

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1907 gem

Wylie's Baths

Coogee · desde 1907

A 1907 ocean pool on timber stilts, hanging off the cliff. Entry ~AUD 7.

Tip: Go at high tide to watch the swell roll into the pool. They run yoga on the deck.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + bus 373/374

Featured in: Histórico 1907

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Legendary ferry

Manly Beach

Ferry 30 min desde CBD

The Manly ferry is the world's best cheap ride: 30 minutes of harbour for the price of a train.

Tip: Sit on the right side going out for the Opera House and bridge together. Come back at sunset.

🚇 Manly Wharf — ferry F1 from Circular Quay

Featured in: Ícono Sídney

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The full view

North Head Lookout

Manly · Sydney Harbour NP

The lookout that takes in the whole harbour to the CBD: 100 m cliffs and winter whales.

Tip: Humpbacks pass from May to November. Bring binoculars.

🚇 Manly (ferry F1) + bus 161

Featured in: Sydney Harbour NP

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Zoo with a skyline

Taronga Zoo

Mosman · vista al skyline

Koalas and kangaroos with the Sydney skyline behind them: best-sited zoo on the planet.

Tip: Start at the top: take the Sky Safari up from the wharf and walk back down to the ferry.

🚇 Taronga — ferry F2 from Circular Quay

Featured in: Top atracción familiar

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Retro and free

Luna Park Sydney

1935 · Milsons Point

The giant 1935 face and a Ferris wheel facing the bridge. Getting in is free.

Tip: Entry to the park is free: you only pay for rides. Best photos at dusk.

🚇 Milsons Point — T1/T9

Featured in: Histórico 1935

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Family plan

Darling Harbour

Paseo + acuario + museos

The waterfront promenade with aquarium, maritime museum and fireworks on summer Saturdays.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8 / light rail L1

Featured in: Top familiar

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Urban sunset

Barangaroo Reserve

Headland park · 2015

A rebuilt headland with 75,000 native plants and the best urban sunset in town.

Tip: Follow the Wulugul Walk to Walsh Bay and finish in The Rocks: 25 minutes on the water.

🚇 Barangaroo — Metro M1 / Wynyard — T1/T9

Featured in: Nuevo Sídney

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360 degrees at 250 m

Sydney Tower Eye

309 m · Skywalk

Sydney's highest point: enclosed deck at 250 m or the open-air Skywalk in a harness.

🚇 St James — T2/T8 / Gadigal — Metro M1

Featured in: Mirador #1

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Free and new

Art Gallery of NSW · Naala Badu

Sydney Modern · gratis

Australian and First Nations art across two buildings; the 2022 wing is architecture at its best.

Tip: The Tank, a WWII oil bunker underground, is the most striking space of all.

🚇 St James — T2/T8 / Martin Place — T4

Featured in: Gratis · Sydney Modern

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Free since 1827

Australian Museum

1827 · el más antiguo

Australia's oldest museum: dinosaurs, minerals and the First Nations gallery, all free.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1827

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Tree tunnel

Hyde Park & ANZAC Memorial

Fuente Archibald

The country's oldest park, with the fig tree avenue that ends up in everyone's photos.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8 / St James — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1810

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Southern Gothic

St Mary's Cathedral

Neogótica · College St

Australia's largest sandstone cathedral: free entry and a crypt covered in mosaics.

🚇 St James — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1868

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Secret rooftop

MCA · Arte Contemporáneo

Circular Quay West

Free contemporary art and a rooftop cafe facing the Opera House. The secret is upstairs.

Tip: Head to the level 4 MCA Cafe: same view as the pricey restaurants, coffee for AUD 6.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

Featured in: Gratis · vista top

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Brutal cliff

The Gap · Watsons Bay

Acantilado oceánico

The cliff where the Pacific hits full force, ten minutes from the old fishing village.

Tip: Pair the ferry with fish and chips at Doyles and the Hornby lighthouse: a perfect half day.

🚇 Watsons Bay — ferry F4 from Circular Quay

Featured in: Clásico Sídney

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Secret skyline

Milk Beach

Vaucluse · Hermit Bay

A hidden harbour cove with the whole skyline in front. No tourists, plenty of reels.

Tip: You walk down through Strickland House's garden. Go at low tide: that's when the sand appears.

🚇 Edgecliff — T4 + bus 325

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Local secret

Wendy's Secret Garden

Lavender Bay · gratis

The garden Wendy Whiteley planted by hand over abandoned rail land, facing the bridge.

🚇 North Sydney / Milsons Point — T1/T9

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UNESCO island

Cockatoo Island · Wareamah

UNESCO · astillero

UNESCO-listed convict island and shipyard: you can camp facing the skyline.

Tip: You can sleep in pre-pitched tents right on the water. Book months ahead.

🚇 Cockatoo Island — ferry F3/F8

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Hidden oasis

Chinese Garden of Friendship

Darling Harbour · 1988

A walled Cantonese garden with pavilions, koi carp and a tea house. A refuge when it rains.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8 / light rail L1

Featured in: Histórico 1988

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Where to eat in Sydney: restaurants

3 hats · Top 100

Quay

The Rocks · 3 hats

Peter Gilmore facing the Opera House: the snow egg is Australia's most copied dessert.

Tip: Ask for a window table when you book and take the 6 pm sitting for the light.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

Featured in: Good Food 3 hats · Top 100 AU

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3 hats · level 26

Oncore by Clare Smyth

Crown Barangaroo · 3 hats

The first British woman with 3 Michelin stars, level 26 above the harbour. Pure produce.

Tip: Lunch costs far less than dinner and the view is exactly the same.

🚇 Barangaroo — Metro M1

Featured in: Good Food 3 hats

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Intimate 3 hats

Sixpenny

Stanmore · 3 hats

Twenty seats in the Inner West and vegetables from its own garden. Fine dining, no fuss.

🚇 Stanmore — T2

Featured in: Good Food 3 hats · Top 100 AU

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Dine in the Opera House

Bennelong

Dentro de la Ópera · 2 hats

Dinner under the Opera House sails: Australian lamb and the Cherry Jam Lamington.

Tip: If you can't get a table, the Cured & Cultured bar takes walk-ins.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

Featured in: Good Food 2 hats · Top 100 AU

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Fire only

Firedoor

Surry Hills · sin gas ni luz

Lennox Hastie cooks EVERYTHING over wood fire: not one electric burner in the kitchen.

Tip: Sit at the bar facing the embers and order the tasting menu.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 / light rail L2/L3

Featured in: Top 100 AU · Good Food 2 hats

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Australia's top 3

Saint Peter

Paddington · pescado nose-to-tail

Josh Niland uses the whole fish, eyes included: he changed how half the world cooks.

Tip: Fish bone marrow chocolate sounds odd and is the best dessert you'll eat.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333/440

Featured in: Top 100 AU · #3

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2 hats · cult

Ester

Chippendale · horno de leña

The brick oven that defined modern Sydney cooking: fried bread with caviar, and oysters.

🚇 Redfern — T1/T2/T4/T8

Featured in: Good Food 2 hats

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Cool tasting menu

Automata

Kensington St · degustación

A tight five-course menu in an industrial shed: fine dining at a human price.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

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Living legend

Tetsuya's

Kent St · leyenda japo-francesa

The tasting menu that put Sydney on the world map in the 90s: the confit trout is still on.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico · Top 100 AU

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2 hats Levantine

Aalia

Martin Place · 2 hats

Middle East and North Africa by Paul Farag: the house bread alone justifies the booking.

🚇 Martin Place — T4 + Metro M1

Featured in: Good Food 2 hats

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2 hats · wine

Bentley Restaurant + Bar

CBD · 2 hats

Brent Savage cooking and Nick Hildebrandt's wine list: serious technique, flawless pairings.

🚇 Wynyard — T1/T9 / Martin Place — T4

Featured in: Good Food 2 hats

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Hatted veggie

Yellow

Potts Point · vegetariano

Fully vegetarian fine dining in the old yellow artists' house. Australia does it better.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4

Featured in: Good Food hats · veggie

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Modern Levant

Nour

Surry Hills · libanés moderno

Lebanese reinvented and shared: order the lamb hummus and the arak cocktails.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Prettiest bar in town

Restaurant Hubert

Bligh St · París subterráneo

Down a staircase and you're in a 1930s Paris bistro with live jazz and steak tartare.

Tip: Without a booking you can wait at the Normandy bar: it's the best part of the place.

🚇 Martin Place — T4 + Metro M1

Featured in: Icónico Sídney

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Peking duck

Mr. Wong

Bridge Ln · cantonés

Three floors of Cantonese down a laneway: Peking duck, dim sum and colonial fans.

Tip: Lunchtime dim sum is cheaper and you get in without booking months out.

🚇 Wynyard — T1/T9

Featured in: Institución Sídney

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Reborn in 2023

Golden Century

The Star · pecera XXL

The chefs' late-night legend: lobster with noodles and abalone straight from the tank.

🚇 Pyrmont — light rail L1 The Star

Featured in: Histórico · reabierto

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8-hour asado

Porteño

Surry Hills · asado argentino

Whole lamb and pig, eight hours on the asador: Argentine fire cooking done properly.

Tip: Order the asado of the day before it runs out: it comes out between 7 and 9 pm.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

Featured in: Top 100 AU · argentino

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Cult Italian

Alberto's Lounge

Surry Hills · italiano

Red-lit Italian with checked tablecloths: vitello tonnato, martinis and good noise.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8 / Central

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Martini in a can

Continental Deli

Newtown · latas y martinis

A deli turned bistro: canned martinis, Iberian tins and hand-carved jamon.

🚇 Newtown — T2

Featured in: Icónico Inner West

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Top wine bar

Bar Copains

Redfern · vinos naturales

A tiny natural wine bar with plates off the grill: the hardest booking in Redfern.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 / Redfern

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Top smokehouse

LP's Quality Meats

Chippendale · ahumados

Sydney's smokehouse temple: pastrami, house blood sausage and its own charcuterie.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

Featured in: Top charcutería

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Latin tapas

Bodega 1904

Surry Hills · tapas latinas

Tapas with a South American accent and the famous blood sausage hot dog. Loud and perfect.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

Featured in: Clásico Surry Hills

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Viral pasta

Pellegrino 2000

Surry Hills · trattoria

A neon trattoria where nobody leaves without the vitello or the lemon pasta. Electric room.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

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Hatted rooftop

Kiln

Ace Hotel · rooftop

Ace Hotel rooftop with a wood oven and the CBD view: Australian cooking with no posing.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8 / Central

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Open late

Chat Thai

Haymarket · desde 1989

The Thai everyone in Sydney knows: pad thai at midnight, boat noodles and endless queues.

Tip: Order the boat noodles and the som tum. Cash or app: the queue moves fast.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

Featured in: Institución 1989

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Legendary queue

Mamak

Goulburn St · malayo

Roti canai thrown in the window and chicken satay. The queue is part of the ritual.

Tip: No bookings: get there before 6 pm or after 9 pm.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 / Museum — T2/T8

Featured in: Viral · cola eterna

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Properly spicy

Spice I Am

Surry Hills · tailandés picante

Unfiltered Thai for local palates: ask for hot and they'll give you hot.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

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Hatted Malaysian

Ho Jiak

Haymarket · malayo-chino

Junda Khoo cooks his grandmother's Penang food: top char kway teow and curry laksa.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Banh mi #1

Marrickville Pork Roll

Bánh mì · 8 AUD

Sydney's best banh mi for under ten dollars. Twenty-deep queue by 11 AM.

Tip: Order the classic pork roll with chilli. Cash only and they close early.

🚇 Marrickville — Metro M1 + bus 428

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Western Sydney vibe

Baba's Place

Marrickville · Balcanes + Levante

Migrant kids' cooking in an old social club: kebabs, dips and a party every night.

🚇 Marrickville — Metro M1 + bus 428

Featured in: Top 100 AU

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Bondi view

Icebergs Dining Room & Bar

Bondi · sobre la pileta

Maurice Terzini's Italian hanging over the Icebergs pool. The view is the menu.

Tip: If you miss out on a table, the bar next door takes walk-ins with the same postcard.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Icónico Bondi

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Beach casual

North Bondi Fish

Bondi norte · pescado

Fresh fish facing the sand, in shorts and without ceremony. Oysters and fish tacos.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Clásico Bondi

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Viral bread

Totti's Bondi

Bondi · pan de la casa

The puffed wood-fired bread TikTok turned into a must. Courtyard Italian.

Tip: Order the pane di casa as soon as you sit: it lands hot and vanishes fast.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Bondi institution

Sean's

North Bondi · desde 1993

A handwritten menu every day, twenty seats and thirty years of local loyalty.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

Featured in: Histórico 1993

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Since 1885

Doyles on the Beach

Watsons Bay · desde 1885

Fish and chips on the harbour since 1885: get there by ferry, come back at sunset.

Tip: Doyles on the Wharf next door is cheaper and has exactly the same view.

🚇 Watsons Bay — ferry F4

Featured in: Histórico 1885

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Long lunch

Catalina Rose Bay

Sobre el agua · hidroaviones

A long lunch watching the seaplanes take off. Sydney's classic Sunday.

🚇 Edgecliff — T4 + bus 323 / ferry Rose Bay

Featured in: Clásico del harbour

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Viral saganaki

The Apollo

Potts Point · griego moderno

Saganaki flamed at the table with honey and oregano. Marble Greek and good noise.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4

Featured in: Clásico moderno

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Top izakaya

Cho Cho San

Potts Point · izakaya

A minimalist concrete izakaya: karaage chicken, sashimi and the area's best Japanese bar.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Walk-ins only

Fratelli Paradiso

Challis Ave · sin reservas

Kerbside Italian that hasn't taken a booking in twenty years: the menu changes daily.

Tip: Go at 8 AM for the cornetto and coffee, or 5:30 pm to land a table for dinner.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4

Featured in: Institución Potts Point

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Historic pie

Harry's Café de Wheels

Woolloomooloo · 1938

The pie cart since 1938: the Tiger (pie with mash, peas and gravy) is living history.

Tip: Order the Tiger and eat it standing in front of the yachts. Open late.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4 / St James — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1938

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Hatted pasta

Ragazzi Wine & Pasta

Angel Place · pasta

Hand-made pasta and rare Italian wines in a hidden city-centre room.

🚇 Wynyard — T1/T9 / Martin Place — T4

Featured in: Good Food hat

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Specialty coffee in Sydney

Specialty pioneer

Single O

Surry Hills · desde 2003

The roaster that kicked off Sydney's specialty wave: order at the self-serve tap bar.

Tip: The self-serve tapping bar pours filter coffee forty times faster than the machine.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

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Cult roastery

Mecca Coffee

Alexandria · roastery HQ

One of Australia's most respected roasters, with open cuppings in the Alexandria warehouse.

🚇 Green Square — T8

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Brunch + roastery

Reuben Hills

Surry Hills · sudamericano

A roaster with a Latin soul in an old mechanic's shop: baleadas, eggs and serious filters.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

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Competition coffee

Artificer Coffee

Surry Hills · micro-lotes

A bar of coffee nerds: different micro-lots every week and espresso dialled to the gram.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

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Perfect flat white

Sample Coffee

Devonshire St · Surry Hills

Small and precise, right by Central: the flat white the city's baristas drink.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

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Iconic brunch

Paramount Coffee Project

Commonwealth St · brunch

Brunch in the old Paramount Pictures building: giant hotcakes and rotating specialty.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8 / Central

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Classic roastery

Toby's Estate

Chippendale · roastery

The original Chippendale roastery: barista courses and freshly roasted beans to take home.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 / Redfern

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Nordic + Japanese

Edition Coffee Roasters

Darlinghurst · japo-escandinavo

Nordic filters and Japanese breakfast: the miso hotcake is the most ordered thing here.

🚇 Museum — T2/T8 / Kings Cross — T4

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CBD specialty

Pablo & Rusty's

CBD · Castlereagh St

The city specialty for people with a meeting: serious espresso in the financial district.

🚇 Gadigal — Metro M1 / St James — T2/T8

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Coffee in an arcade

Gumption by Coffee Alchemy

The Strand Arcade · 1892

Competition-grade coffee inside Sydney's prettiest Victorian arcade. Perfect combo.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8 / Wynyard

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Sausage roll #1

Bourke Street Bakery

Surry Hills · desde 2004

The bakery Australia exported to the world: sausage roll, ginger brulee tart, queue on the corner.

Tip: Order the sausage roll and the ginger brulee tart. Get there before 11 AM.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L2/L3

Featured in: Institución 2004

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Globally viral cake

Black Star Pastry

Newtown · watermelon cake

The watermelon and strawberry cake the NYT called Australia's most Instagrammed dessert.

Tip: They sell single slices: no need to buy the whole cake. Sold out by midday.

🚇 Newtown — T2

Featured in: Viral · NYT

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Lamington 2.0

Tokyo Lamington

Newtown · lamington japo

The Australian lamington crossed with Japan: yuzu, matcha and hojicha. Flavours rotate.

🚇 Newtown — T2

Featured in: Viral TikTok

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Cult bakery

Flour and Stone

Woolloomooloo · panna cotta lamington

Nadine Ingram and the panna cotta lamington: the bakery every chef recommends.

Tip: Go early: the panna cotta lamington sells out before midday.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4 / St James — T2/T8

Featured in: Culto pastelero

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Founding brunch

Bills Darlinghurst

Desde 1993 · Bill Granger

The communal table that gave the world ricotta hotcakes and those scrambled eggs.

Tip: Order the ricotta hotcakes with banana and the scrambled eggs: these are the originals.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4 / Museum — T2/T8

Featured in: Histórico 1993

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Mega brunch

The Grounds of Alexandria

Ex fábrica · jardines

A 1920s factory turned garden, farm and cafe. Basically a brunch theme park.

Tip: Come on a weekday: weekends run an hour's wait. Kevin Bacon, the pig, lives here.

🚇 Green Square — T8

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Micro gem

Room Ten

Llankelly Place · Potts Point

A tiny cafe in the prettiest laneway around: sandwiches and coffee made with care.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4

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Australia's #1 gelato

Gelato Messina

Darlinghurst · sabores rotativos

The gelato Australia obsesses over: five new special flavours every Thursday.

Tip: Check the week's flavours before you go: they change Thursdays and there's always a queue.

🚇 Kings Cross — T4 / Museum — T2/T8

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Shopping in Sydney: where to shop

Prettiest shopping

Queen Victoria Building

1898 · QVB

An 1898 Romanesque palace with stained glass, the hanging clock and 180 shops over three levels.

Tip: Watch the Great Australian Clock on the hour: the history scenes move.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8

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Australian design

The Strand Arcade

1892 · galería victoriana

Sydney's last original Victorian arcade: Australian designers and old-school tailors.

Tip: Look for Zimmermann, Dion Lee and chocolatier Haigh's on the ground floor.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8 / Wynyard — T1/T9

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All under cover

Westfield Sydney

Pitt St Mall · lujo

The CBD's premium mall, linked to Sydney Tower and the level 5 food court.

🚇 Gadigal — Metro M1 / St James — T2/T8

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Since 1838

David Jones Elizabeth St

Desde 1838

The world's oldest department store still trading under its original name.

Tip: The basement food hall has oysters, cheese and Australian wine to take away.

🚇 St James — T2/T8 / Gadigal — Metro M1

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Giant bookshop

The Galeries · Kinokuniya

George St · librería XXL

Australia's largest bookshop, with manga, Japanese stationery and armchairs to read in.

🚇 Town Hall — T1/T2/T8

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Cheap souvenirs

Paddy's Markets Haymarket

Desde 1834

A thousand stalls of souvenirs, fruit and knick-knacks: the city's oldest people's market.

Tip: Open Wednesday to Sunday. For real souvenirs, haggle upstairs.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8 + light rail L1

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Night market

Chinatown · Dixon Street

Haymarket · night market

A pedestrian street with dragon gates and the Friday night market full of food stalls.

Tip: The Friday Night Market runs 4 to 11 pm with Asian street food stalls.

🚇 Central — T1/T4/T8

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Cradle of AU design

Paddington Markets

Sábados · desde 1973

150 stalls where Zimmermann and Dinosaur Designs started out. Saturdays only, 10 am to 4 pm.

Tip: Saturdays only. Afterwards walk east along Oxford St for the boutiques.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333/440

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Indie design

William Street Paddington

Boutiques independientes

One block of independent Australian designers: jewellery, tailoring and hats.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333/440

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Global AU label

Zimmermann Paddington

Flagship · Glenmore Rd

The flagship of Australia's most exported label: summer dresses and embroidered lace.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333/440

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Design souvenir

Dinosaur Designs

Oxford St · resina

Objects and jewellery in impossible resin colours: the Australian design souvenir.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333/440

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Vintage hunting

Glebe Markets

Sábados · vintage

Cheap vintage, vinyl and hippie food on a school lawn. Saturdays, 10 am to 4 pm.

Tip: Saturdays only. Then head up Glebe Point Rd to Gleebooks, the best second-hand bookshop.

🚇 Glebe — light rail L1

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Sunday in Bondi

Bondi Markets

Domingos · frente al mar

Emerging designers and second-hand clothes in the Bondi school playground.

Tip: Sundays 9 am to 1 pm for the farmers market, 10 am to 4 pm for fashion and vintage.

🚇 Bondi Junction — T4 + bus 333

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Local craft

The Rocks Markets

Sáb y dom · George St

Craft, certified Aboriginal art and food stalls under the white marquees of the old town.

Tip: Only buy Aboriginal art with a certificate of authenticity from the artist.

🚇 Circular Quay — T2/T8

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Farmers market #1

Carriageworks Farmers Market

Sábados · Eveleigh

Sydney's most serious producers' market, inside an 1880s railway workshop.

Tip: Saturdays 8 am to 1 pm. Come hungry: hatted chefs run the breakfast stalls.

🚇 Redfern — T1/T2/T4/T8

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Inner West cool

King Street Newtown

2 km de vintage y vinilos

Sydney's most alternative strip: clothes by the kilo, vinyl, tattoos and bookshops.

Tip: Start at the station and walk south: the best op shops are past Egan St.

🚇 Newtown — T2

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Australian boot

R.M. Williams

George St · botas

The Craftsman boots, stitched from a single piece of leather: the real Australian classic.

Tip: Try the B and C lengths: the Australian last is narrower than it looks.

🚇 Wynyard — T1/T9 / Town Hall

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Fresh seafood

Sydney Fish Market

Pyrmont · el 2° más grande

The southern hemisphere's biggest fish market: buy it raw and eat it on the wharf.

Tip: Get there before 10 AM. Watch the gulls on the terrace: they will take anything.

🚇 Fish Market — light rail L1

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