Dining

Sydney offers more than 80 restaurants serving a lot of dining options from fish and chips to top seafood to its travelers. You will find that cafés in Sydney serve breakfast menus from as early as 6am until 11am. Lunch starts at about noon and continues until about 3pm while the dinner commences from 5:30pm onwards.

Sydney is a marvelous multi-cultural city and the range of food is huge and isn't as expensive as compared to other places. You can stop at street corner take-away kiosks, five-star restaurants, gourmet dining spots and budget eateries to gorge on the each of the specialties served by them.

In Sydney, food is served in restaurants, bistros, cafés and wine bars. From Chinese, Vietnamese, North African, Italian, to Greek and Lebanese to Indian, you will come across all the cuisines in Sydney.

Sydney is well known world wide for its excellent combination of talent, expertise and high-quality chefs that prepare the most excellent cuisine that is irresistible. Each of these restaurants has its own individual feature with its distinct ambience. Sydney restaurants offer an assortment of endless range of flavors that include tasty dishes, other specialties, dessert, brasseries, tearooms, ice cream parlors, open-air cafés, and pubs.

A. Top Restaurants

Restaurant Balzac

The beautiful two-storey sandstone building resides majestically at the end of the Randwick strip, housing one of Sydney's best value-for-money restaurants.

You will find that the menu changes regularly and varies according to the seasons' flavors and availability of the highest quality produce that are used. In order to experience the nine course seasonal meal visit this restaurant on the last Sunday of every month. Restaurant Balzac can supplement any particular dietary necessities if informed in advance.

141 Belmore Rd

Randwick NSW 2031

Cuisine: French, Modern French

License: Fully Licensed (no BYO)

Chef: Matthew Kemp

Tel: 02 9399 9660

Fax: 02 9399 6929

For main menu try the following dishes:

- Blue Eye with Pomme Boulangère, Sauce Borderlaise, Baby Leeks and Bone Marrow for $32.00.

- Fillet of Pink Snapper, Fondue of Fennel and Mud Crab with a Shellfish Jus for $32.00.

- Braised Veal Breast with Roast Loin, Green Olives and Roman Beans for $32.00.

- Confit of Duck with Herb Spatzle, Brussel Leaves, Lyonnaise Onions and a Marsala Jus for $32.00.

For the most awesome desserts try some of these:

- Bread and Butter Pudding with Pain d'Epice Ice Cream for $16.00.

- Warm Chocolate Fondant with Rice Milk Ice Cream for $16.00.

- Warm Apple, Cinnamon and Raisin Tart with Caramel Ice Cream for $16.00.

- Strawberry Bombe Alaska with Navel Oranges and Passionfruit for $16.00.

Astral Restaurant in Star City

This restaurant is especially designed for people who enjoy dining out as an experience and for those who wish to relish the very best Australian cuisine. Astral menu includes a delicious selection of the most excellent seafood and meat.

Astral offers a extensive selection of Australian and international wines which complements the extraordinary and innovative menu created by chef, Sean Connolly and his team of talented cooks.

Astral is one of Australia's best fine-dining restaurants that offers modern French cuisine and specially selected wines in the most sophisticated atmosphere.

80 Pyrmont Street, Pyrmont,

Sydney, NSW 2009 Australia

Tel: 02 9657 7552

Fax: 02 9657 7561

Email. RestaurantSales@starcity.com.au

Location: Level 17 Hotel Tower

Capacity: 90 seating

Open: Breakfast 6am - 10am, 7 days

Dinner: Tuesdays to Saturdays from 6pm onwards.

Dress Code: No blue denim, running shoes or sporting uniforms to be worn.

Reservations: 1800 700 700

For starters, you have a choice of oysters, baby watercress, and beetroot jelly or a blue swimmer crab salad, with almonds, grapes, and cucumber. They always have a variety of starters laid out, so you won't be disappointed.

For the main course, you have a choice of Rock lobster, crispy snappers, spring lamb, roasted pheasant, and a whole lot more delicious fares. Don't forget to wind up with a passion fruit tart as dessert, or some marmalade soufflé .

Some of the finest restaurants in Sydney:

1. In Chinatown you can order for a Yum Cha, which is an entire meal comprising of many small dishes. You can also order for the starters such as Dim Sum.

2. Eat Chinese in the city's Haymarket area and the famous restaurant you will find over there is Qing Jin.

3. Eat Thai in one of the many low priced Thai outlets in Newtown's King Street in the Inner West.

4. You can feast on the Italian cuisine in one of the restaurants in Leichhardt's Norton Street in the Inner West. Benvenuto is an ideal choice.

5. For Portuguese cuisines head straight to Petersham in the Inner West where a place called Bom dia, is quite popular amongst foodies.

6. You can also choose to eat Indian recipes in one of the many restaurants in Sydney or Outer West suburb of Parramatta. They offer all types of Indian cuisines (North Indian, South Indian, Vegetarian). ‘Namaskar' is a restaurant in that locality that serves some of the best Indian dishes.

7. You can eat Nepalese in Glebe Point Road, Glebe, which is in the Inner West.

8. For Lebanese food visit the Cleveland Street in South Sydney.