Chinatown is throwing its own festival of light, music and food with Neon Playground 2.0

Chinatown's epic Neon Playground festival will return in 2025

Did you miss Vivid Sydney earlier this year? Not to worry, Chinatown will have its own festival of light, music, art and entertainment in March 2025 with the return of Neon Playground 2.0. The multifaceted lifestyle and arts festival will return for its second year after a successful debut in 2022 saw Dixon Street washed … Read more

Four of Australia’s top chefs will curate special dinners at Sydney Opera House this month

Sydney Opera House has brought back its winter dining series, Chefs of the House.

Four of Australia’s top chefs have come together for Sydney Opera House’s winter dining series, ‘Chefs of the House.’ Taking place in the underused Yallamundi Rooms, which sit towards the back of the Sydney Opera House, the winter dining series is scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights throughout August, each edition bringing in a new … Read more

Belvedere Vodka is hosting a luxurious pop-up cocktail bar at Zephyr

Zephyr Sky Bar and Belvedere Vodka have launched a new pop-up bar for August.

One of Sydney’s most picturesque open-air spots, Zephyr Sky Bar at the Hyatt Regency Sydney, has been chosen as the site for an exclusive month-long pop-up bar curated by Belvedere Vodka. Fans of luxurious dining and drinking should flock to this spot before it pops down at the end of August, given the limited range … Read more

The USA’s legendary Buffalo Trace is hosting Australia’s largest whiskey tasting in August

Buffalo Trace is hosting Australia's largest whiskey tasting

The world’s most awarded distillery, Buffalo Trace, is coming to Sydney to host “Australia’s biggest whiskey tasting” on a football field at the end of this month. A 100-metre table has been set up at Henson Park in Marrickville for the large-scale tasting, which takes place just days before Father’s Day and follows the Newtown … Read more

ATTENZIONE! Redfern’s new modern Italian wine bar is an ode to the good life

ATTENZONE! Food & Wine opens in Redfern

Some of Sydney’s most reliable hospitality stars have come together to open a new modern Italian restaurant and wine bar in Redfern. ATTENZIONE! Food & Wine is the latest venture from Felix Colman, Toby Stansfield, Toby Davis and Dexter Kim, pitched as a European-style wine bar, reflecting the world-building swagger of the Mediterranean’s finest enotecas. … Read more

Paski’s new monthly dining series will take you on a tour of regional Italy

Paski is one of the best Italian restaurants in Darlinghurst.

Paski Vineria Poplare, one of the best Italian restaurants and wine bars in Darlinghurst, has launched a new monthly dinner series called ‘Lunedi Regionale,’ dedicated to exploring the diversity of Italy’s regional cuisines. From Lazio to Sicily, Paski’s kitchen will become a nomadic showcase of the world’s most famous boot once a month until early … Read more

Chinatown now has Sydney’s largest all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ buffet

Butcher's Buffet is now the largest Korean BBQ restaurant in Chinatown

A total of 60 Korean BBQ stations have arrived in Chinatown for the opening of Sydney’s fifth, and largest, Butcher’s Buffet. Butcher’s Buffet has been one of Sydney’s most popular Korean BBQ restaurants since 2019, with several outposts across Sydney. This new Chinatown edition, however, measures at 500-square-metres with capacity for 200 diners at a … Read more

Champagne Lallier is coming to Sydney for a special one-night-only dinner at Rockpool

It’s been a while since Sydney splurged on an upscale dinner hosted by a historic Champagne House. Yet we’re only weeks away from a special collaborative event from historic Grand Cru label Champagne Lallier and one of Australia’s most consistent fine dining brands, Rockpool. With events also happening in Melbourne and Perth on the same … Read more