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Good Weekend Sydney restaurant reviews 2022

Catch up on Callan Boys' reviews, as published in Good Weekend on Saturdays.

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Go-to dish: Red-braised bird might be a half chicken with a gnarly foot to nibble on.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Don't miss the namesake dish at Redfern's swish new Chinese restaurant, Redbird

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Wagyu with frilly radicchio chips.
Good Food hat15/20

For a hotel restaurant, The Gantry is a lot of fun

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Go-to dish: Core fried chicken with caviar.

The secret's out about Sydney's fanciest fried chicken bar snack

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Hunan-style tiger prawns.
14.5/20

The Chairman drops the Mao, but retains the Hunan heat

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Go-to dish: Ceviche clasico.
14/20

Join the pisco party at Peruvian restaurant Warike

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"Sea treasure" ball presented in a wooden birdcage.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Gaku Robata Grill becomes a fun omakase party

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Go-to dish: Murray cod with Jerusalem artichoke and samphire.
14.5/20

Review: Is Sydney's Cottage Point Inn worth the Trip?

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Go-to dish: Baked tiger prawns with vermicelli.
Good Food hat15/20

Is Porkfat Sydney's best Thai restaurant? Quite possibly

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Must-order dish: Raw tuna with tomatoes, cucumber, tahini and garlicky chilli oil.
Good Food hat15/20

Rafi's raw tuna is one of Sydney's best dishes of the year

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Hong Kong-style French toast with butter, condensed milk and maple syrup.
13/20

Kowloon Cafe is a little bit of Hong Kong Disneyland in Burwood

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Go-to dish: Mafaldine with tiger prawns and fermented chilli butter.
14.5/20

Bar Que Sera is a city-style wine bar in NSW's best-kept holiday secret

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Heritage meets corporate hotel: Inside Dixson & Sons.
13/20

Heritage meets corporate hotel at Dixson & Sons

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Go-to dish: Farinata with anchovies, mascarpone and herbs.
Good Food hat15/20

Everything is in its right place at 10 William St

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Go-to dish: Alubias, jamon broth, pipis and manzanilla sherry.
Good Food hatGood Food hat16/20

Gildas is as good as Spanish dining in Sydney gets

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A selection of mezze including saj (bread), eggplant fatteh, fattoush, hummus, kingfish and kofta.
14.5/20

Bayti's Lebanese banquet is ludicrously generous

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The menu, and it's opening "Snack Attack", changes weekly.
13.5/20

The Blue Door's menu is a revolving door

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Go-to dish: The duck for two's roasted breasts and confit thighs are presented separately.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Don't miss the duck at this well-heeled Woollahra pub

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A sunny Saturday lunch is the ticket at Fontana.
Good Food hat15/20

Swaggering spirit at Fontana in Redfern

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Go-to dish: Blue fin tuna otoro.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Lo and behold, Kuon Omakase's perfect piece of sushi is 10 seconds of bliss

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Go-to dish: Iskender - shaved lamb backstrap with capsicum sauce, pide bits and yoghurt.
14/20

Skip the steaks - it's all about the lamb iskender at Izgara in Potts Point

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Steak frites with Diane sauce at Bistro Fitz.
14.5/20

Bistro Fitz serves pub dining hits from the '70s, '80s and today

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Anchovy and parmesan custard Danish pastry.
14.5/20

Humbug represents the best of Newcastle dining right now

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Spicy tan tan black ramen with pork broth.
14.5/20

Go beyond the noodle at Senpai Ramen in Chatswood

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Sixpenny in Stanmore. Jerusalem artichoke tart with black truffle. 19th June 2022. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH Good weekend food
Good Food hatGood Food hatGood Food hat18/20

Sixpenny's new tart is the Sydney snack of the year

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Peak truffle: Linguine with truffled fried egg, truffle butter sauce and shaved truffle.
14.5/20

More is more at Sam Young's Sydney bistro S'more

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Paneer tikka jaffle with mint and tamarind chutney.
14/20

Indian street-food and jaffles at Flyover Fritterie and Chai Bar

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Bring a bunch of your favourite people and order as much of the Spanish-influenced menu as possible.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Long live local spirit at Bistro Livi in the Northern Rivers

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Go-to dish: "Chardonnay from fresh to frozen".
Good Food hat15.5/20

'Progessive experience' Ele is a movable feast in the former Momofuku site

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Wagyu rib cap with fermented black bean sauce, pencil leek and native pepper.
Good Food hatGood Food hat17.5/20

If you're a wine enthusiast saving for a big night out in Sydney, Bentley is the one

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Go-to dish: Reuben with hand-sliced pastrami on rye.
14/20

'A sandwich for dinner and house wine at pub prices? I'll have what they're having'

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A schooner of session lager suits the retro Australian-Chinese cuisine.
14/20

Chinese bistro Lucky Prawn might be Sydney's most popular new restaurant

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Pan tomate (left) and anchovy churro.
Good Food hatGood Food hat16/20

Tapas and tapestries at Parlar in Potts Point

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Go-to dish: Focaccia con porchetta.
Good Food hat15/20

This Bondi restaurant revival is a must-visit for pork fans Sydney-wide

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Kids can build their own banana split at the bar.
14.5/20

Feed the whole family at Totti's Rozelle

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Battered fish and chips.
14.5/20

Fish Butchery Waterloo is home to Sydney's best fish and chips

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Lauren Eldridge's rhubarb, yoghurt and Davidson plum dessert was the NSW Good Food Guide magazine cover star.
Good Food hatGood Food hat16/20

Is Berowra Waters Inn worth the pilgrimage?

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