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Pyrmont

Beetroot rosette filled with oyster braudade and lime.
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LuMi Dining

Immensely creative tasting menu inside a stylish glass box.

Prop up at the sushi counter for an omakase-style experience.
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Sokyo

High-rolling restaurant continues on a path of excellence.

Spaghetti carbonara with house-made guanciale at Salumeria Norcino.
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Salumeria Norcino

Salumeria with Roman roots and all-star cast of cured meats.

Sala in Pyrmont.
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Sala

Upscale Italian where the food eclipses the view.

Honey toast.

This Japanese snack started out as karaoke fuel. Now you can try it at this Sydney bakery

Japanese bakery Akipan specialises in shokupan that’s flavoured with matcha, miso or transformed into honey toast.

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Rhubarb and pear danishes.

Pioik

This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Porchetta pizzetta.
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‘The best sandwich I’ve eaten all year’: Meaty spot enlivens a dead patch of Pyrmont

I’m a big fan of everything Salumeria Norcino – jack of all trades, master of salumi – is trying to do.

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Another smart Italian seafood restaurant by the sea? Go on, then.
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Sala serves seafood by the sea in Pyrmont

Another smart Italian seafood restaurant by the sea? Go on, then.

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Go-to dish: "Chardonnay from fresh to frozen".
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Ele is a movable feast in the former Momofuku site

Sydney's hallowed dining ground is now home to a "progressive experience" from talented chefs Karl Firla and Federico Zanellato.

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Katsuo (bonito) ramen, with egg.

Self-taught master behind Sydney's most surprising ramen bar

Umami Dojo Ramen Bar is run by a former IT engineer who developed his own recipes by "testing and tasting" over and over again.

  • Candice Chung