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Cracking Christmas catch-ups spots for Sydney 2017

"We must catch up before Christmas," you say. Relaxed, buzzy, and easy for quick escapes: here's where's good for groups from 2 to 20.

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Go-to dish: Green curry with grilled fish wing, pea eggplant and baby corn.
Good Food hat15/20

Chin Chin: A high-energy party palace that will leave your ears ringing

  • Terry Durack
Shrimp-brined fried chicken, soy and syrup.
14.5/20

Paper Bird a Potts Point hotspot in full flight

  • Terry Durack
Hubert's new mezzanine: Bridge Bon Appetit.

Triple-threat Hubert adds fourth treat with Bridge Bon Appetit

  • Myffy Rigby
The Vicious Virgin.

Tiki theme 'Peaks' for taste

  • Myffy Rigby
The classic cocktail, Coffee & Cigarettes at The Gretz in Enmore.

Liquor lords: Sydney's 20 best bars of 2017

  • Myffy Rigby
The spectacular seafood platter is enough for three or four to share.
14/20

No piggy, but Grounds of the City delivers the lot

  • Terry Durack
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Roasted cauliflower comes with Chinese pancakes.

Bad Hombres is coming in hot, heavy and entirely vegan

  • Myffy Rigby
Romanesco, chilli and ricotta pizza.

Pizza Madre's vegetarian discs get Marrickville's tick of approval

  • Myffy Rigby
(Fish)head-to-tail: Snapper with its liver, asparagus and broad beans.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Fish-focused Saint Peter is quite a catch in Paddington

  • Terry Durack
Hand-rolled rabbit casarecce pasta gets its magnificent green from the peas and nettles.
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Why Merivale's new restaurant Fred's is the hottest in Sydney right now

  • Terry Durack
Boudin slider at The Butler.
14/20

The Butler offers confident Kings Cross' party vibe

  • Terry Durack
The Rozelle venue is lifting the lid on its redesign.

New menu and redesign for 3 Weeds in Rozelle

  • Scott Bolles
Chicken cotoletta, peas, broccolini and lemon parmesan cream.
14.5/20

Digging up treasure at Parramatta's Husk & Vine

  • Terry Durack
Sweet and savoury: mini doughnuts filled with rock lobster, tom yum mayonnaise and sweetcorn and lemongrass salt.
14/20

Lobster doughnut burgers hit Dural

  • Terry Durack
Trifle with vermouth-soaked sponge and hibiscus jelly.
Good Food hat15/20

Banksii digs deep into the botanical garden

  • Terry Durack
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LP's seafood sausage

Wyno a small bar, big on flavour

  • Myffy Rigby
George Poulos with his son Nik in Summer Hill. George served his customers dressed in a suit and tie every day.

Summer Hill's Rio milkbar opens as small bar

A dish worth sharing: deep-fried prawns.
Good Food hat15.5/20

David Thompson fires up the Sydney outpost of Long Chim

  • Terry Durack
Warren Turnbull's booming Chur Burger has opened at the sprawling Rooty Hill RSL complex.

Chur Burger and Pasticceria Papa open at Rooty Hill's Made by the Hill

  • Scott Bolles

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