Sydney Restaurants and Bars - Eat Drink
From morning to midnight and back again, EAT/DRINK is TwoThousand's guide to cafes, bars and restaurants in Sydney. We know the best coffee because we drink 20 a day (each), we know the good restaurants because we can't cook, and we'll tell you where to find hidden bars and other places that still let you smoke so that we can ask you for a cigarette when you get there. EAT/DRINK is as voracious as our appetites and a much better filter than our livers, which stopped working a long time ago. Email your EAT/DRINK suggestions to: talk@twothousand.com.au
Mizuya Restaurant & Karaoke
The touch screen guy tipped us off. He'd just installed an impressive amount of premium screens at a Japanese restaurant and karaoke bar in the CBD. On this basis we were convinced that Mizuya would be just like Shinjuku; the electric lights, the hidden restaurants, the sweaty microphones. Happily, it's not far off.
Almond Bar
From time to time, you stumble upon a restaurant so mind-bendingly good you feel compelled to tell your friends, treat your folks and start a Facebook group extolling the virtues of this sanctum of culinary gold. Almond Bar is exactly this type of establishment with one exception; I don't want to tell anyone.
Shady Pines Saloon
An oft-had discussion in my house goes like this:
"Seriously, there are no bars here like American bars."
"I know, where it's all dark, and you sit at the bar and just shoot the shit."
"Exactly - let's just open one."
"Well why not?" Etc.
That conversation has now been shot.
Fratelli Fresh and Cafe Sopra Walsh Bay
Unless you have been living under an especially large rock for the past few years, you've probably noticed the sudden abundance of swanky grocers dotted around the city. And hell, I'm all for it, because quite frankly, I don't want eat an apple that was picked six months ago and has been sitting in a deep freeze ever since.
Bloodwood
"It's like if Thailand made a pasta sauce." This was by way of a compliment, perhaps abstracted, so enamoured was a drinking companion of the Bloody Mary at Bloodwood. I tried it: it was incredible, and I'm not usually a huge fan of the drink. So, while she writhed and poured forth proclamations of love for the cocktail artist behind the concoction, we got stuck into some food and wine.
The Corner House
The Corner House isn't a house at all, any more than the Animal Collective is a group of cats and pigeons with silly stage names. In fact, the whole place is like a helpless tsetse fly snagged in a sticky web of deceit.
Inside, the 'kitchen' is actually a well-stocked wine bar. The 'dining room' is a full-service restaurant, with a delectable baby beetroot salad currently on special.
The Lord Wolseley Hotel
I was down in Pyrmont to check out a new joint which opened with zero fanfare and no net presence, which is a rarity. And it was good, but being only a week old, they wanted to stay under the radar. Because we're not entirely ruthless scoop-whores I had to respect that.* Somewhat deflated, I kicked rocks back towards Fernside.
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