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The Woolly Bay Hotel in Woolloomooloo.

Woolly Bay Hotel

A historic Woolloomooloo pub with a rooftop cocktail bar.

The East Sydney Hotel.

East Sydney Hotel

An iconic inner-city pub with country charm.

Otto’s champagne lobster pasta.
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Otto Ristorante

Famed waterside dining spot continues to deliver.

Gregory Island prawns and lemongrass relish at Viand.
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Viand

Multi-sensory tasting menus brimming with warmth and inventiveness.

Drunken chicken with rice wine sauce and ginger shallot at China Doll.
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China Doll

Dumplings and seafood with a sublime waterfront position.

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Akti’s dining room.

Hellenika chef heads up new Greek restaurant on the wharf

Akti, meaning coast in Greek, is your port of call for charcoal-grilled kontosouvli skewers and bubbling saganaki on the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf.

  • Erina Starkey
Pastries from Flour & Stone.

Flour & Stone

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

The waterfront strip attracts celebrities from around the globe.

Sydney’s king of waterfront restaurant real estate takes over prized seafood venue

Manta at Woolloomooloo Wharf is the latest venue to join the stable of Sydney Restaurant Group.

  • Scott Bolles
Steak frites with Diane sauce.
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Bistro Fitz serves pub dining hits from the '70s, '80s and today

The Old Fitzroy's new chef Toby Stansfield's umami-seasoned chips indicate he wants people to cross suburbs to eat at this backstreet boozer.

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Sticky aged pork surrounded by fresh Thai herbs and leaves.
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Viand is one night in Bangkok, but in Woolloomooloo instead

Chef Annita Potter is bypassing tired cliches and cooking the most thoughtful, uncompromising Thai food in Sydney, reviews Terry Durack.

  • Terry Durack