Restaurant / Bar - 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
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 COMMONS Local Eating House
A lot of things can disappoint your family. The time you passed out on the front path at 7am - for instance - or the time you drank bore water. For me, it was my inability to embrace eating LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE THING THAT COMES OUT OF THE OCEAN. Well ha! I ate a killer fish chowder at THE COMMONS Local Eating House, so look out family Christmas.
Doctor Pong
Sup, Burton Street? Oh nothing, just opening another bar. First we had Pocket, then The Pond arrived the other week, and now we have Doctor Pong. Occupying the spacious, airy room that was once Chicane, Doctor Pong wholly embraces the unfussy concept of the Berlin original - on a larger scale.
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.
Fico
Those passing 544 Bourke Street during the recent months would have noticed the masked windows offering a glimpse into the site's newest incarnation, Fico. The windows remain closed over, disguising the intimate, softened mood within. It comes courtesy of supple, the same crowd responsible for Il Baretto's interior - not surprising, given the Il Baretto peeps operate Fico.
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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