Where to find Sydney’s best crepes
08 Feb 2023
08 Feb 2023
Looking for dining inspiration? Check out some of the latest restaurants added to Dish Cult.
Every month, we add restaurants to the Dish Cult family. Here we highlight some of our favourites:
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In the heritage-listed Arrow Marine building at Pyrmont, right on the harbour’s edge, you’ll find Revy Food and Wine.
Drop in for a Mediterranean-leaning breakfast or lunch from Wednesday to Saturday, or book a private dining space and enjoy a set menu which includes mushroom arancini with truffle and Taleggio, buttermilk fried chicken with house pickles, slaw and potato crisps, and Sicilian cannoli.
Add a classy cocktail or two from a sophisticated drinks’ list, and that’s your event more than sorted.
If it’s a pub classic in a family-friendly environment you’re after, you should head straight to the Narellan Hotel.
One of the oldest pubs in Sydney’s south west, the crew here know a thing or two about old-style hospitality. Enjoy lunch or dinner in the Narellan’s bistro and choose from a menu that includes everything from chicken korma skewers and a salmon sushi bowl to pizza, burgers, steak and a dedicated schnitzel menu with heaps of variations.
What’s more, if you’ve got kids, this could be your ticket to a stress-free night out. The Narellan has a kids menu, with the option to include an activity pack as well as a drink and ice-cream, plus the dream of every parent who wants to eat out – a playground which will keep them busy while you sit back and relax with another drink. Go on, you deserve it!
Woodblock Bar & Grill
American, Steak, Pizza
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Heading to the Central Coast anytime soon? While you’re there check out Woodblock Bar and Grill for low and slow smokey barbecue pork ribs, crispy chicken wings, sensational steaks, pizza and more-ish burgers.
That’s dinner sorted, but you can also pop in for breakfast on the weekends, where you’ll find Woodblock’s famous buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup, strawberries and powdered sugar, as well as a classic big breakfast, heaving with bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms, grilled tomato and hash brown all served with toasted Turkish bread.
So what are you waiting for? You’ll find Woodblock inside the Grand Hotel and Studios, a boutique hotel in the heart of Wyong.
July
In the heart of Newtown, you’ll find Missony – a recently opened restaurant that celebrates the dining cultures of the Mediterranean and puts them directly on your plate. Not only will you find a range of delicious pasta dishes such as linguine marinara and spaghetti primavera, you’ll also discover plates from the less highlighted parts of the Mediterranean including Moroccan prawns and quinoa tabouli.
In classic generous Mediterranean style, the team at this stylish restaurant is offering you a 25% discount on your meal here until August 31. So there’s no better time to taste the flavours of this sunny part of the world, especially while we all get through another Sydney winter.
Osso
Steakhouse
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If you’re serious, and we mean really serious, about steak you need to get yourself to Osso. Located in both Rouse Hill and Penrith, these guys do not muck around when it comes to meat and proudly serve the highest quality beef from Australian suppliers.
In surroundings reminiscent of an old school butcher shop, expect sensational steaks from a verified Black Angus lazy aged sirloin to a pasture fed, hormone free fillet mignon, as well as seafood, chicken, pasta and oysters to start. If you’re not sure what to order, go for the butcher’s board for two, which features an excellent cross-section of everything Osso has to offer.
Harris Park is full of great places to eat, but Chulho stands out for its way with Nepalese and Indian cuisine. The menu gives equal billing to vegetarian and meat-friendly options, and you’ll find a great range of curries, thali and street food favourites.
Speaking of favourites, we can’t go past the momos. These bite-sized bundles of joy are the Nepalese version of dumplings and they are just delicious. They come in a multitude of ways, to suit your mood, whatever that might be. Pan-fried or steamed, with a chicken or vegetable filling, with heaps of chilli or in a tomato soup, in great quantities, to make up your entire meal, or in a small number, so that you can sample them before moving on to your mains. Whatever way you choose to try them, there’s no need to worry, because you really can’t go wrong!
June
Feel like you’re sitting in a Greek taverna, but without leaving Bondi Beach! Topikós has opened its doors at the old Bondi Public Bar site on Campbell Parade and offers a menu based on traditional Greek classics made with high quality Aussie produce. Expect all-day meze, house-made pita bread and cocktails with an Aegean twist.
If you don’t live in the Shire, it’s worth crossing town to get to Hazelhurst Cafe, in the grounds of the local community arts centre at Gymea. This cafe is bright and buzzy with a menu that has earnt it a berth in the SMH Good Food Guide in 2022. You’ll find delicious cocktails and all day options from tiramisu french toast or a Beirut BLT for breakfast through to a crispy duck salad or Moroccan pastilla pie for lunch.
Experience the Basque region much closer to home at Sebastian, the Spanish-inspired restaurant at Spicers Tower Lodge in the Hunter Valley. At Sebastian, pintxos, the Basque version of tapas, can include dishes such as West Australian marron with herb omelette and Koji mayo or venison backstrap with black barley and charred leeks. It all goes best with liberal amounts of txakoli, the lightly sparkling white wine you would find in one of the culinary capitals of the world, San Sebastian.
Naples is of course famous for being the birthplace of pizza, but this southern Italian city has much more to offer and you can taste it at DeVita in Manly. The pizza is, as you’d expect, made to exacting standards and cooked in an oven imported from Naples, built with stone from the nearby Amalfi Coast. You can also taste the seafood of this coastal region in dishes like polpo affogato, baby octopus cooked in a Neapolitan sauce with black olives, and for dessert, the mighty pastiera Napoletana, a traditional Easter cake made with ricotta, wheat berries and candied fruit.
Da Orazio Pizza + Porchetta
Italian, Porchetta, Pizza
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There are many reasons to head to Bondi Beach to eat at Da Orazio. Acclaimed chef Orazio D’Elia is at the helm, so you know it’s going to be good, and the pizza is made with the “biga” method, which produces a lighter and fluffier dough. But it’s the porchetta that is the ultimate show stopper. If you’ve never had porchetta alla Romana, a deboned Taluka Park Berkshire pork, slow roasted and cooked in the traditional Italian way, you should correct that as soon as you can. But if pork isn’t your thing, you can’t go wrong with silky linguine paired with blue swimmer crab and heirloom cherry tomatoes.
