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Hay St Market.
10/20

Haymarket’s revamped Paddy’s Markets vowed to be a first-rate food hub. It didn’t deliver

It might serve a very good martini and excellent chips, but Callan Boys chalks it up as another entry on Sydney’s board of missed opportunities.

  • Callan Boys
The signature green, yellow and red negronis.

This New York-style bar serves a negroni in three colours

Like its sibling venues Bar Planet and Cantina OK, this new Campari-hued cocktail bar does one thing exceptionally well.

  • Erina Starkey
Falafel with tahini, pickles and zhoug.
14/20

One of Melbourne’s favourite falafel crosses the river to get to this southside bar

It’s worth coming to cocktail bar Nobody’s Baby for the crunchy-fluffy falafel alone.

  • Dani Valent
Chicken katsu with Japanese gravy.
Critics' Pick

This inner-city terrace serves outrageously juicy katsu and boss-level drinking food

Craft beer hangout Benchwarmer breaks the mould with its brash and bold Japanese snacks.

  • Emma Breheny
The exterior.

The Shop & Wine Bar

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

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Good Measure’s signature mont blanc.

Good Measure

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Cocktails at Indian diner Chapati’s moody upstairs cocktail bar, Daaru.

Daaru

For Indian-inspired cocktails and bar snacks.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The Cashmere cocktail.

This cocktail bar in a former cloakroom offers a tailored experience

Each cocktail is inspired by a different fabric.

  • Erina Starkey
Arbory is a seasonal floating bar on the Yarra River.

Arbory Afloat

Seasonal floating bar for long, boozy lunches on the Yarra.

  • Quincy Malesovas
Outside the Box Hill bar and bottleshop.

Bar Nearby

Neighbourhood bar and bottleshop doing mostly drinks.

  • Tomas Telegramma

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