The best boozy brunches in Sydney
FANCY a side of bubbles with your bacon? A growing number of Sydney restaurants and bars are offering New York-style bottomless brunch menus. Here’s out pick of the best.
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WITH the rise of the boozy brunch, a growing number of Sydney restaurants and bars now are offering New York-style bottomless brunch menus.
Diners can have unlimited French champagne with their confit duck, ocean trout tartare or wagyu sliders.
Ex-fine dining chef Justin North worked on Hotel Centennial’s brunch menu, which launched two weeks ago, for 2½ years.
“There’s an abundance of really good cafes that do good breakfasts, but in terms of a really nice restaurant feel, there wasn’t anything like that and we kept getting requests from locals,” he says.
Hotel Centennial’s dishes include confit duck waffles and a tuna sashimi bowl, as well as cafe favourites such as omelets, and eggs and soldiers. The full menu runs from 10am to noon, with a limited menu from noon to 3pm.
Drinks include a breakfast martini with marmalade, mimosa and spiced Bloody Mary.
Dead Ringer in Surry Hills kicks off its brunch menu tomorrow. After running the front of house for Broadsheet’s restaurant pop-up last year, director Rob Sloan spotted a gap in the market.
“We had a breakfast menu, but it wasn’t what people were after. They didn’t want just bacon and eggs,” he says.
“It’s a recovery session, something to do when you don’t have plans for the rest of the day.”
The menu includes tomato and ricotta tart, blood sausage omelet, ocean trout tartare and the cocktails are just as thought out as the food.
“Drinks are a bit more bespoke, they’re made with more consideration and balance,” Sloan says.
“We’re making sure the drinks are less about alcoholic strength and more about complexity. We want them working with food options rather than overpowering them.
“Often people don’t want to get smashed at midday, they want a bit of hair of the dog.”
SYDNEY’S BEST BRUNCH ROOMS
EL CAMINO CANTINA, THE ROCKS
On Sundays, from 11am-3pm, you can choose a dish for $14 or spring $29 for an hour-long beverage package, including margaritas, beers, largaritas and more.
EL CAMINO CANTINA, THE ROCKS
On Sundays, from 11am-3pm, you can choose a dish for $14 or spring $29 for an hour-long beverage package, including margaritas, beers, largaritas and more.
CUCKOO CALLAY, NEWTOWN
You don’t have to wait until the weekend, this place serves up a boozy brunch seven days a week.
ACME, RUSHCUTTERS BAY
A set brunch menu, $50, is offered on Saturdays. It changes every week. Cold drip coffee is an option, but you really want to go the cocktails, from spritzers to a Korean Michelada.
THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM, SURRY HILLS
In The Winery’s upstairs space, you can have three courses and three hours of bottomless bellinis, for $70. It’s on every weekend and includes porcini arancini, champagne scones and wagyu sliders.
ICEBERGS DINING ROOM & BAR, BONDI
Can’t afford dinner here? Swing by for Sunday brunch from 10am-11.30am and drink in that view while enjoying a three-course brunch with bottomless prosecco for $75.
COOGEE BAY HOTEL, COOGEE
Brekky by the Sea cocktails are available every day, think the French kiss with Chambord and sparkling wine, sugar syrup and lemon juice to go with your baked ham with poached eggs, Brussels slaw and smoked almonds.
SAINT PETER, PADDINGTON
At this hotter-than-hot seafood restaurant, your scrambled eggs come with yabbies, crumpets are topped with briny sea urchin and the full wine list is also available at weekend brunch.
KENSINGTON STREET SOCIAL, CHIPPENDALE
An interactive cocktail trolley, with spirits, mixers and garnishes that change each week, lets you create your own cocktail. Every weekend from 11.30am-3.30pm.
MR CAFE AND BAR, BALMAIN
You can go a mimosa, spiked juices or Bloody Mary, but why not ditch the latter for an espresso martini and order the homemade breakfast doughnuts filled with ricotta and served with a grilled peach and maple syrup.
EFENDY, BALMAIN
A grazing breakfast banquet of more than 30 Turkish dishes are available on weekends from 9am-2pm for $32. Plus Turkish wines, beers and cocktails such as their version of a Bloody Mary with pickled red carrot shalgam are available.
THE PROVINCIAL, ROZELLE
A new Friday-Sunday brunch menu pairs with lighter spritzer options, $15, including cassis and plum.
DARLO COUNTRY CLUB, DARLINGHURST
Saturdays from 11.30am-2.30pm, a six-course set menu with drink on arrival is $65, with bottomless NV Chandon for $85 and bottomless Moet & Chandon for $105. Once a month, the St-Germain Brunch Club has a 1920s Parisian theme.
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