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The new Sydney restaurants, bars and cafes we got excited about in August

Bronte’s new beachside bolthole, street-food feasts in Strathfield and Texas-inspired barbecue in Penrith – from east to west (and beyond), there’s a table waiting for you.

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Street-food feasts for under $10 a head make Miss ary in Strathfield a winner

  • Lenny Ann Low
Crisp-skinned red mullet on sauce Americaine with fregola.
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New Bronte bolthole Table Manners puts the fun into fine dining

  • Terry Durack
Comedor is a good-looking space set in a century-old warehouse.
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Modern Mexican spot Comedor brings the fiesta to the inner west, and gets a hat straight off the bat

  • Callan Boys
A wall of vending machines at Gacha Cafe.

Getcha self to George St’s Gacha Cafe for snacks that taste just like Japan

  • Lee Tran Lam
Allta’s timber slats arch over diners like a blond wood Hokusai wave.
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Allta Korean fine-dining restaurant is one of Sydney’s best new openings of the year

  • Callan Boys
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How Coogee Wine Room upped its chef cred and got serious about food

  • Terry Durack
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No-waste cake.

Our reviewer visited The Studio by The What If Society four times to try the chef’s tongue-wowing cooking

  • Lenny Ann Low
Bacon and egg roll with spinach.

Little Stevies Shop in Carlton is a trove of home-cooked food treasures

  • Lenny Ann Low
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Japanese business lunch favourite Azuma returns to Sydney CBD in former Continental site

  • Terry Durack
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Shell House is a ‘proper restaurant’ offering bells-and-whistles dining

  • Callan Boys
Passionfruit and raspberry cake.

The Tart Sisters in Ashfield is one of the best bakery shops in Sydney

  • Lenny Ann Low
Ammos.
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Cancel that Greek island resort holiday; come to Peter Conistis’ Ammos instead

  • Terry Durack
Plate 2 with beef brisket, pork belly and fries and hot wings.

Brisket Boys offers smoky, charry Texas-inspired barbecue flavours in Penrith

  • Lenny Ann Low

‘It’s my last restaurant’, Neil Perry vows as he opens 240-seat Song Bird in Double Bay

  • Scott Bolles
Bobbie’s co-owners Linden Pride (left) and Neil Perry.

First Look: Chef Neil Perry opens first standalone bar Bobbie’s with New York bar guru

  • Scott Bolles
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Bistro Grenier has opened in Newtown.

Find casual French fare with a difference at hidden Newtown loft Bistro Grenier

  • Bianca Hrovat
The Bristol, on Sussex Street in the CBD, has been given a head-to-toe redesign

The Bristol Arms is back and it’s nothing like the old Retro you remember

  • Scott Bolles
The Bat and Ball has reopened in Redfern.

The Bat and Ball Hotel in Redfern reopens as budget-friendly homage to classic Sydney pub

  • Bianca Hrovat
Attenzione! in Redfern.

Hot new Italish-ish restaurant and wine bar Attenzione! opens in Redfern

  • Bianca Hrovat
Left to right: Waiwing Lau, Vincent Lim, Howin Chui.

Yum Cha Project opens at Grosvenor Place, serving takeaway dumplings and Peking duck pizza

  • Scott Bolles
From left: Arms Length co-owners Rosie O’Shea and Rebecca O’Shea with head chef Keno Perlas.

Italian-leaning wine bar Arms Length moves from Surry Hills to Kings Cross

  • Scott Bolles