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Splitting a matcha flavoured daifuku with a piece of string at Sydney Daifuku Store.

Split your mochi with a piece of string at this hidden Japanese cafe

Our reviewer has never encountered a more expansive offering of these squishy pastry desserts than at this spot. It’ll cure your wish-I-was-in-Japan blues.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Ned pictured with Son of a Baker pastries and Zest coffee at Baba G’s.

Sydney’s best dog-friendly venues now serve ‘puppitini’ cocktails and pooch-only high teas

“We’re BYO human”: Cafes are embracing four-legged friends like never before.

  • Bianca Hrovat
The gamjatang soup is pretty much the only menu item at Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.

This slow-simmered Korean pork bone soup is best split with friends

Even the small size of gamjatang – priced at $40 – feeds two to three people, or go the large for $70 for groups of four or more.

  • David Matthews
Stairway to Heaven.

On omakase restaurant in Redfern that turns dinner into a show

There’s a new rendition of Stairway to Heaven. You’ll find it at R by Raita Noda, a 15-seat Japanese fine diner on Redfern’s Wunderlich Lane.

  • Erina Starkey

Rockpool team to open restaurant serving only steak frites

Plus a salad and cheesecake tart, making it arguably Sydney’s smallest menu.

  • Scott Bolles
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Olympus Dining’s retractable oculus glass ceiling.

Sydney’s most exciting openings of the year so far

From CBD grills and hatted Italians to destination sandwiches, these are the new venues to tick off as we head into the second half of 2025.

Shanghai Chinese is a soft-lit capsule of longevity symbols, floral wallpaper and red lanterns.
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This old-school regional Chinese restaurant is a delicious time-warp to the 1970s

Prawn toast, fried ice-cream and red lanterns abound at a Southern Highlands institution still going strong after 50 years.

  • Callan Boys
Poodle Bar & Bistro’s crab profiteroles.

Filet-O-Fish and salt & vinegar onion rings: a French dinner inspired by a Happy Meal

For one night, Melbourne’s hatted Poodle Bar & Bistro comes to Sydney. Expect mini burgers, savoury profiteroles and “cheeky, decadent” dishes.

  • Erina Starkey
The dakdoritang, a signature featuring aged kimchi, is pure comfort.
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This popular soup chain has 95 sites in Korea. Now its first global outpost is in Sydney

Since opening in February at the former BBQ King site, the line has hardly let up at Jiho Hanbang Samgyetang, which is known for its restorative ginseng and chicken soup. 

  • David Matthews
The Alexandria premises of Pino’s Vino e Cucina in its original.

Restaurateurs locked in ‘custody battle’ over venue name

The sale of a popular Italian restaurant in Alexandria has prompted a stoush over the use of its moniker.

  • Scott Bolles

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