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Chinatown is back, but not as you remember it (and here are five new spots to try)
From the city’s largest Korean barbecue restaurant to its first kakigori shop, here’s why diners are queueing for Chinatown eateries.
- Bianca Hrovat
Attenzione! There’s a hot new Italish-ish restaurant and wine bar to try in Redfern
Forget about the burrata - the Fabbrica alumni are going off script with an experimental menu.
- Bianca Hrovat
King Street is about to get its first French restaurant, and it’ll be cooler and cosier than most
Odd Culture Group has announced plans to open Bistro Grenier, serving lesser-known French classics in a cosy converted loft.
- Bianca Hrovat
Nearly 50 Chinese restaurant closures forces change by next generation
The lazy Susans have ceased spinning at some of Sydney’s best-known Chinese restaurants. But young operators are shunning tradition and charting a new path.
- Scott Bolles
The Unicorn calls last orders, ending an era for the pokie-free ‘proper Aussie pub’
Fans of its wing-on chicken schnitzel and Jatz with French onion dip still have time to visit the Paddington boozer before the operators finish up.
- Sarah Norris
French chef with Michelin star cred opens wine bar in an unlikely location
The 60-seat Georgie mixes marble, velvet and touches of gold on the ground floor of the Mantra 2 hotel.
- Scott Bolles
Five years in the making, Josh Niland’s revamped Saint Peter opens at the Grand National Hotel
Josh and Julie Niland have transformed the Paddington pub into a plush hotel, bar and restaurant. The ambition? To be a ‘world-class’ dining destination.
- Bianca Hrovat
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Clayton Wells joins Merivale’s empire, as CBD expansion rumours swirl about
The former Automata and A1 Canteen chef was spotted at several Justin Hemmes venues, prompting the question: is he about to helm a new Merivale restaurant?
- Scott Bolles
Australia’s first women’s only sports bar to open on Oxford Street
The Ladies League is a game-changing new two-storey Sydney bar screening exclusively women’s games, live and loud.
- Bianca Hrovat
Team behind Paddy’s Markets revamp vows project won’t be just another food court
The developers of the Haymarket precinct insist the venture will ‘cater for everyone’, as construction begins on 47 new food outlets.
- Scott Bolles