Five Dock

• Review
• Izakaya Gaku

‘A treasure hunt’: This new Japanese venue serves 300 glistening rice bowls each week

The latest restaurant from the team behind Darlinghurst’s Gaku Robata Grill will change your mind about rice.

• Helen Yee

• Review
• Izakaya Gaku

Izakaya Gaku

An izakaya where you’re spoilt for choice with umami broths and umeshu infusions.

• Recommended
• Raineri’s Continental Deli

Raineri’s Continental Deli

This venue is a finalist for best sandwich in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

• Erina Starkey

• Sandwich watch

I lined up for 65 minutes for this $15 sandwich, and I’d do it again

There’s no menu at this family-run inner west Italian deli. Instead, let the experts, who’ve been doing it for 43 years, guide your panini adventure.

• Sarah Norris

• Review
• New South Wales

Unico

Pick appetisers from a tree or take your pasta shaken not stirred at this one-of-a-kind restaurant by a Michelin-trained chef.

• Lee Tran Lam

• Review
• Sydney

Bamiyan

It might lie in a dark and sleepy pocket of Five Dock, but even on school nights this place is rocking.

• Review
• Sydney

Himalaya

From a distance, there doesn't seem much to recommend this slightly threadbare room, but it's clear ...

• Review
• Sydney

Bamiyan

Run by Kabul-born restaurateur Haseeb Miazad, this cute cottage is named after the Buddhas of ...

• Review
• Sydney

Gatto Matto Trattoria

Gatto Matto Trattoria

• Megan Johnston

• Review
• Sydney

Himalaya

As Sydney's South Asian restaurants drift upmarket, decor dominated by lurid travel posters and ...