Dinner - 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
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.
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.
Doughboy Newtown upstairs!
Your favourite dough dealer just got better. They were already frisbeeing crispy bases to hungry mouths from their stores all over town, and now Newtown invites you upstairs to a dedicated pizza party room. Sure, you've done that at Pizza Hut when you were, like, eight. But, they've sweetened the deal further with a record player and the call to bring your own vinyl.
African Feeling
I have these pantaloons. They're high waisted and silk, emblazoned with this African print. Deep mustard, olive and teracotta scenes of elephants, aardvarks and native jungles. Deep right? Anyway, when I wear them, I get this African feeling - like I'm Babtunde Olantunji and we're riding the national groove.
The Winery by Gazebo
The deciduous crowd who turn up whenever anything opens in Sydney turned up here on Friday night. But the opening of a new venture from the Gazebo peeps was always going to see that happen. The remarkable thing is that, over the boorish din, The Winery proved why it's going to be one of the more popular places for a long hot minute.
Mere Catherine
Let's hear it for the cliche! Things old-fashioned and familiar have earned much eye-rolling disdain simply because lots of people have liked them, for lots of time. But like the under-rated Dad joke or candle-lit first date, these tried and tested gems are too good to throw out in the wash, be left by the wayside or [insert other lame cliche].
Half Price Mussels, Belgian Beer Cafe
Every Wednesday eve, on a cobbled laneway commonly trod by balding suits and camera-toting tourists, there's a clandestine gathering of thrifty mollusc-lovers, getting their fill of tasty moules-frites for half the going price. This is a little-publicised affair that the unsuspecting Belgian Beer Cafe patron could risk missing, as you won't get a friendly reminder on arrival.
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