Greek Yum Cha? Yes, it’s a thing
Dulwich Hill’s famous old Aegean Restaurant now has an outpost at Bexley Golf Club. This is Aegean 2.0 and it is serving up bright and simple food.
Kitchen Confidential
Kitchen Confidential is a celebration of all that is tasty, new and juicy on Sydney's food and bar scene. Edited by Karlie Rutherford, it showcases everything from the new foodies on the block to ever-popular institutions, the latest food trends, the places you can't afford not to eat or drink at, restaurant reviews, insights from chefs, industry gossip and the latest about where punters are queuing for more from the CBD to the suburbs.
Award-winning eats for just $12? Find out where in Sydney
Good food doesn’t need to be expensive, and the ClubsNSW Perfect Plate Awards aims to show that. Here are the best dishes in the competition under $20.
The surprise day job of a woman who wants to be Miss Universe
From Mr Potato to pageant queen: Jess Davis put her modelling career on hold to launch a successful business. Now she’s hoping to be the oldest contestant to win Miss Universe Australia.
Is this Sydney’s most surprising new restaurant?
A Surry Hills bar has just reopened itself as no mere gastropub. The White Horse is setting the pace as an honest-to-God fine diner.
Where to spoil mum in Sydney on Mother’s Day
There’s dozens of Mother’s Day deals to celebrate mum this week, as Sydney’s top chefs share how their mums influenced their culinary careers.
Latest casualties as more high-profile restaurants bite the dust
As the cost of living bites, three high-end venues have announced their closure this week, sending shockwaves through Sydney’s hospitality industry.
Can Sydney’s dining population afford to ban children?
Coming in the wake of debate after a mother was asked to remove her baby from a comedy show, The Mouth ponders whether Sydney restaurants have the right to ban children?
Celeb chef’s shock Sydney closure sparks fan Easter rush
A celebrity chef took the hospitality industry by surprise last week when he announced the permanent closure of two of his beloved Sydney restaurants.
Scotch cross buns, Easter egg beer giving the holiday a boozy twist
Sydney gets into the spirit of Easter by adding spirits to their easter treats.
That’s an RSL? Inside the $50m renovation of Gosford RSL
After seven years of planning, and two years construction, Gosford RSL is set to open.
Popular restaurant gets new lease of life after sudden closure
It shut up shop in Potts Point late last year, but it’s back by popular demand, in Sydney’s CBD. “There is no Turkish restaurant like it,” says Izgara founder and chef Efe Topuzlu.
Top Bar owner laments Sydney’s lack of late night dining options
Sick of a lack of places to eat late in Sydney, Raffaele Lombard took matters into his own hands. Luckily, the Bar Conte owner had the perfect venue: his own.
Sydney’s most expensive coffee and croissant
French-trained patissier Khaled Khanji opens his “dream” shop, inspired by the cake houses of Europe. It’s serving up a 1.2kg croissant and three-litre coffee that’s gone viral.
Raising the steaks in hunt for prime cut
It was a high steaks game. The Mouth spent time in Sydney’s steakhouse district, taking notes, sampling steaks. He reveals which ones made the cut.
Why do restaurants turn the music up so loud?
The Mouth left King Clarence starved for a chat: tongue singing, but ears ringing. The food was fabulous. But you have to shout that from the rooftops to be heard.
Meet the power women wowing Sydney’s hospitality scene
Women make up half the the food and beverage industry workforce, but are severely under-represented at leadership levels. Meet the women leading the way to change that.
Defying gravity: Aussie seltzer makes TayTay’s Sydney concert drinks list
Entrepreneur Mick Spencer has been on Shark Tank and written a best-selling book. Having his seltzer served at Accor Stadium during Taylor Swift’s concerts is a milestone he didn’t expect.
Valentine’s Day is for suckers: I choo-choo-choose to stay home
Is there anything less romantic or sexy than some fixed price meal and the obligation to be all loved up? It’s about as much fun as filing taxes, that’s why The Mouth choo-choo-chooses to stay home.
Tay-Tay-tasty: Venues put on Swifty menus ahead of tour
With Taylor Swift mania set to take over Sydney, venues across town are capitalising on the superstar singer’s visit. Kitchen Confidential takes a look at what’s on the menu.
Views and brews: The newest rooftop bars in Sydney
Raise the roof: Summer may be half over, but there’s still time to check out the host of new rooftop drinking holes in Sydney to squeeze out the last of the season.
Sydney’s restaurant scene stung by closures
The cost of living crisis has hit Sydney’s restaurants with many businesses closing their doors for good. Read the list of top notch restaurants who have been caught in a cost of living crunch.
A space to call home: Celebrity caterer opens first restaurant
After catering elite events for the likes of Louis Vuitton and Polo Ralph Lauren, ‘Blonde Butler’ Alex Cadger has opened his own event space, complete with his first cafe restaurant.
Is it cheaper to dine at a restaurant on Christmas Day?
Hosting Christmas at home will cost 10 per cent more this year: an average $249 per person, data shows. But some restaurants are offering it for less. With champagne. And you can bring the dog.
Best and worst of Sydney’s food and hospitality scene in 2023
From Matilda’s Mania to NIMBY’S trying to shut down Sydney’s live music venues, these are the highs and lows of the year in Sydney’s hospitality scene.
Surprise new venue to host celeb Sydney New Year’s Day party
Bondi Icebergs, Catalina call time on New Year’s Day event, Bobby’s steps into the breach
Is it worth climbing 17 floors to eat atop Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Climb the 200 steps up the Sydney Harbour Bridge to chef Luke Mangan’s restaurant, and you’re met with a glass of bubbles for your troubles. This is literally high end dining. Does it stack up?
First look: CBD Italian restaurant gets second life in Balmain
After Fabbrica Pasta Bar’s abrupt departure from the pub, CBD restaurant Secolo Dining has opened at The Exchange Hotel in Balmain. And they have plans to open more venues.
Popular Sydney bar named best in the world
A Sydney bar inspired by the 1950s Rat Pack has been named the most influential bar in the world at an event in Paris.
The most luxurious racing events in Sydney to catch the Cup
From lunch with Real Housewives to a $30k hotel suite, here are Sydney’s most luxurious Melbourne Cup/The Big Dance events for those who can’t make it trackside on Tuesday.
Fast food: Steak, martini and a ‘f**k off’ dessert in an hour
It’s fast food, but not as you know it. New Sydney steak restaurant Alfie’s is packing fresh new punch into the power lunch.
You Oltra try it: Correct weight for station pizza joint
At the ‘charming bit’ out the front of Central Station, The Mouth found the perfect place to bust his diet. New York style. By the slice.
Top nosh: We reveal NSW’s 17 best burgers
The AHA’s Best Burgers in the state have been announced – and they could well be worth a road trip to sample them all. See if your favourite hotel made the list.
A $15 steak in Bondi? The nine best cheap eats in NSW pubs
The steaks are high. The best pub meal under $15 is one of the most hotly-contested titles at the annual Australian Hotels Association’s awards. Here are nine mouth-watering finalists.
One of city’s best chefs reveals new move after shock departure
For the past 18 months, Sydney’s culinary world has been asking what would top chef Danielle Alvarez do next after leaving critically acclaimed Merivale restaurant Fred’s. Now we finally have an answer.
Iconic Kings Cross nightclub set for grand return
Five years after it shut its doors due to Sydney’s strict lockout laws, Kings Cross late night venue World Bar is set to return.
Popular Sydney restaurant group’s expansion plans
Find out about the hottest restaurant openings across Sydney including big changes to The Boathouse Home and a plan to take it further than the Northern Beaches.
Famed Hollywood Hotel publican’s apartment open for the first time
It’s a secret slice of Sydney punters thought was gone forever when Hollywood Hotel legend Doris Goddard died. But the pub’s new owners are preserving and showing off its history.
Where to get Sydney’s best restaurant food, cheap as chips
From $15 dumplings to specials on Champagne, top restaurants are offering budget deals to tempt cash-strapped customers. We broke down some tasty deals for every day of the week.
Playboy posters, ‘porn chic’: The bar rejecting political correctness
Patrons can’t get enough of this Sydney CBD hotel with an unashamedly “70s porn chic” aesthetic, furry walls and risque, tongue-in-cheek cocktails like ‘The Full Bush’
‘Vegan Maccas’ burger chain makes its move into Sydney
It has similar branding and packaging. It even has “frowny meals”, but you won’t find any all-beef patties at Mr Charlies. Dubbed “the vegan Maccas’ on TikTok, it’s opening in Redfern.
CBD country and western bar Jolene’s plans to win the west
Popular CBD country and western bar Jolene’s has plans to take their southern hospitality to western Sydney.
Melbourne: The food’s great. The side of grunge isn’t
Several years of pandemics, lockdowns, and lousy government have not been kind to Moscow-on-the-Yarra, says The Mouth. The food still tastes OK, but the city has lost its shine.
Taste of the Everest: Cuisine collides with richest race on turf
Already the world’s richest horse race on turf, The Everest is now setting the pace in the food stakes, with 25 top chefs and a Taste of Turf food festival to light up Randwick.
Izy.Aki: The pop-up where not just the miso is unmissable
At chef Darren Templeman’s 20-odd seat Japanese-ish diner in The Rocks, The Mouth finds the party isn’t just in the mouth as diners are served up some of the best cooking in town.
Mexican on the move: Ricos Tacos finds a new home
After closing its Chippendale venue in August, food truck turned cult restaurant Ricos Tacos will have new permanent digs in nearby Redfern.
The Italian restaurant that gave a tiny village its soul back
With a population of just 270, Carcour isn’t an obvious choice on the foodie map. Or it wasn’t, until Paolo and Kelly Picarazzi started Antica Australis, and diners began coming in droves.
‘If a pub dies, a town dies’: Matt Moran on saving a country pub
Celebrity chef Matt Moran’s next move is to open a bakery in Bathurst after saving The Rockley Pub.
Same, same but different: Bar and restaurant opens on site of Bel & Brio
Hidden bar Cardea and Italian restaurant Bottega Coco opens on site of Bel & Brio in Barangaroo, after former restaurateur Mark locked over failure to pay more than $1.8 million in rent.
Popular hospitality team to open new Sydney steakhouse
North Sydney’s food scene is getting another injection of class with a new bar and grill set to open in September.
Perfect plate: The luxe club dish voted the best in NSW
A decadent combination of pork belly and lobster tail has been voted the best Club dish in NSW. But you’ll never believe where you’ll find it!
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