Guidebook for Surry Hills

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Guidebook for Surry Hills

Food Scene

Amazing modern Italian restaurant with constantly evolving blackboard menu. Ricotta Pannacotta with Coffee Caramel Sauce is the most amazing dessert in the world. Wines are great.
25 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Vini
118 Devonshire Street
25 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Amazing modern Italian restaurant with constantly evolving blackboard menu. Ricotta Pannacotta with Coffee Caramel Sauce is the most amazing dessert in the world. Wines are great.
This place is owned and run by two friends of ours – Benny and Elvis. They work in front of the grill all night, sweating away, and now they just got a hat.
110 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Porteño
50 Holt St
110 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
This place is owned and run by two friends of ours – Benny and Elvis. They work in front of the grill all night, sweating away, and now they just got a hat.
Good food, good coffee (most days).
31 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Baffi & Mo Espresso
94 Redfern St
31 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Good food, good coffee (most days).
Cute little place with outside seating. Gets afternoon sun. Great bagels too!
94 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Coffee Tea & Me
93B Redfern St
94 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Cute little place with outside seating. Gets afternoon sun. Great bagels too!
Nice outdoor seating for those lovely clear blue sky days.
Twig Cafe
357 Cleveland St
Nice outdoor seating for those lovely clear blue sky days.
Friends of ours runs this place too - American diner style menu with a contemporary cuisine twist.
56 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The Eathouse Diner
306 Chalmers Street
56 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Friends of ours runs this place too - American diner style menu with a contemporary cuisine twist.
Great coffee but can be busy for takeaways.
43 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Café Giulia
92 Abercrombie St
43 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Great coffee but can be busy for takeaways.
Seafood restaurant. The best takeaway fish and chips (or mash) around ($8.50).
24 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Mohr Fish
116 Devonshire St
24 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Seafood restaurant. The best takeaway fish and chips (or mash) around ($8.50).
Great coffee. Nice lunch boards. Wine and nibbles.
41 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Brewtown Surry Hills
536 Crown St
41 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Great coffee. Nice lunch boards. Wine and nibbles.
The BEST hommous the world has ever eaten. Creamy, garliccy goodness. Get a takeaway tub of hommous and beetroot dips and a loaf of Turkish pide.
20 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Erciyes Restaurant
409 Cleveland St
20 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The BEST hommous the world has ever eaten. Creamy, garliccy goodness. Get a takeaway tub of hommous and beetroot dips and a loaf of Turkish pide.
Opened by friends Benny & Elvis, this place has become a bit of a local institution. Great food, fantastic Argentinian and Chilean wines.
35 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
WyNo X Bodega
50 Gladstone St
35 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Opened by friends Benny & Elvis, this place has become a bit of a local institution. Great food, fantastic Argentinian and Chilean wines.
The best coffee in Surry Hills, possibly in Sydney. Interesting lunch menu. Open Mon-Fri
68 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Single O Surry Hills
64 Reservoir St
68 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The best coffee in Surry Hills, possibly in Sydney. Interesting lunch menu. Open Mon-Fri
Pizza and Beer. What more do you need? Delicious pizza. Delicious wines and beers. Dark and moody.
31 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Pizza Birra
500 Crown St
31 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Pizza and Beer. What more do you need? Delicious pizza. Delicious wines and beers. Dark and moody.
Try the Eggplant with Miso, Thinly Sliced Kingfish, Baked Salmon, Spider Maki, Spicy Edamame, Morton Bay Bug Tempura and too many other delicious things.
74 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Toko Sydney
275 Crown St
74 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Try the Eggplant with Miso, Thinly Sliced Kingfish, Baked Salmon, Spider Maki, Spicy Edamame, Morton Bay Bug Tempura and too many other delicious things.
Best late night Falafel on Crown St
Zeno Restaurant & Pizza
Best late night Falafel on Crown St
Fantastic little pasta restaurant. Amazing fresh pastas, great Osso Bucco, nice wine list or BYO. From memory they don't take dinner bookings...
49 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
il baretto
496 Bourke St
49 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Fantastic little pasta restaurant. Amazing fresh pastas, great Osso Bucco, nice wine list or BYO. From memory they don't take dinner bookings...
Great Japanese.
Uchi Lounge
15 Brisbane St
Great Japanese.
Thai. Yum. Shortgrain is a new bar downstairs and lunch joint by day.
65 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Longrain Restaurant
65 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Thai. Yum. Shortgrain is a new bar downstairs and lunch joint by day.
Abduls, Fatimas both fantastic and classic old school Lebanese. Take-away falafels from both these joints are great. Eat in cushion rooms at Fatimas and Hannibals, belly dancing most nights.
13 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Fatima's Lebanese Restaurant
296 Cleveland Street
13 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Abduls, Fatimas both fantastic and classic old school Lebanese. Take-away falafels from both these joints are great. Eat in cushion rooms at Fatimas and Hannibals, belly dancing most nights.
Better pizza than the reviews say. Good, safe late night alternative to Pizza Hut or Dominos.
Lorentto Pizzeria
512 Elizabeth St
Better pizza than the reviews say. Good, safe late night alternative to Pizza Hut or Dominos.
Holt St. next to Vini Restaurant Open Mon-Fri until 3pm Phil makes great coffee and I love the Tuna Wrap (but get them to do it on sourdough if they have it).
Koko Espresso Bar
118 Devonshire St
Holt St. next to Vini Restaurant Open Mon-Fri until 3pm Phil makes great coffee and I love the Tuna Wrap (but get them to do it on sourdough if they have it).

Drinks & Nightlife

Young crowd, good cocktails, cold beer, fantastic bar food (Mexican-style, try the deep-friend pickles with ranch dipping sauce). Nice beer garden out back, pool tables and darts upstairs.
90 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Annandale Hotel
17 Parramatta Rd
90 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Young crowd, good cocktails, cold beer, fantastic bar food (Mexican-style, try the deep-friend pickles with ranch dipping sauce). Nice beer garden out back, pool tables and darts upstairs.
Good food too.
90 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Freda's
107-109 Regent St
90 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Good food too.
Commonly called the Shakey by locals, good cheap pub grub.
53 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Shakespeare Hotel
200 Devonshire St
53 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Commonly called the Shakey by locals, good cheap pub grub.
Our favourite pub.
34 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The Cricketers Arms Hotel
106 Fitzroy St
34 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Our favourite pub.
An institution. So much to be said but what can I say. Art deco and simple and wonderful and never-changing.
19 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Hollywood Hotel
2 Foster Street
19 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
An institution. So much to be said but what can I say. Art deco and simple and wonderful and never-changing.
Wine bar and vegetarian restaurant (though not openly so). A less pretentious joint than Millevini or Tokonoma.
66 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Yulli's
417 Crown St
66 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Wine bar and vegetarian restaurant (though not openly so). A less pretentious joint than Millevini or Tokonoma.
Wine bar and Enoteca (Italian Bottle Shop)
30 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
121BC
50 Holt Street
30 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Wine bar and Enoteca (Italian Bottle Shop)

Arts & Culture

One of the most interesting and highly-regarded playhouses in Australia. www.belvoir.com.au
84 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Belvoir Street Theatre
25 Belvoir St
84 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
One of the most interesting and highly-regarded playhouses in Australia. www.belvoir.com.au
Hollywood and blockbuster films. http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Entertainment_Quarter.aspx?type=
132 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The Bavarian Entertainment Quarter
212 Bent St
132 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Hollywood and blockbuster films. http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Entertainment_Quarter.aspx?type=
Independent and foreign cinema with a large amount of Bollywood films http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Cinema_Paris.aspx?type=
132 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
The Bavarian Entertainment Quarter
212 Bent St
132 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Independent and foreign cinema with a large amount of Bollywood films http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Cinema_Paris.aspx?type=
Independent and foreign films http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/
139 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Palace Verona
17 Oxford St
139 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Independent and foreign films http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/

Everything Else

Five brand-new Plexicushion hardcourts. Open until 11pm every night. (FYI Office is around back) Bookings: www.jensenstennis.com.au
City Community Tennis
Five brand-new Plexicushion hardcourts. Open until 11pm every night. (FYI Office is around back) Bookings: www.jensenstennis.com.au
Surry Hills institution. Huge line-ups here on the weekend for the finest baguettes, croissants and coffee. Eat-in if you can score a table outside or in.
324 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Bourke Street Bakery Surry Hills
633 Bourke St
324 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Surry Hills institution. Huge line-ups here on the weekend for the finest baguettes, croissants and coffee. Eat-in if you can score a table outside or in.
Saturday until 1pm. Organic growers markets and other nice foods.
276 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Carriageworks
245 Wilson St
276 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Saturday until 1pm. Organic growers markets and other nice foods.
Golf course open daily. Largest driving range in the Southern Hemisphere open late.
12 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Moore Park Golf House
Cleveland Street
12 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Golf course open daily. Largest driving range in the Southern Hemisphere open late.
Apparently the best local yoga. Though there are others around.
19 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
BodyMindLife Surry Hills
432 Mary St
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Apparently the best local yoga. Though there are others around.
Vintage clothing, knick knacks, gozleme, fun atmosphere. Get there early. First Saturday of every month. http://www.shnc.org/markets/
25 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Surry Hills Market
Crown Street
25 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Vintage clothing, knick knacks, gozleme, fun atmosphere. Get there early. First Saturday of every month. http://www.shnc.org/markets/
On Crown St. These guys will do bulk-billing. Not sure how late they're open.
201 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Surry Hills
201 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
On Crown St. These guys will do bulk-billing. Not sure how late they're open.
Bus, Train and Ferry info & trip planning www.131500.com.au/
489 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Central Station
Eddy Avenue
489 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Bus, Train and Ferry info & trip planning www.131500.com.au/

Essentials

Open until 10pm daily.
117 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Woolworths Redfern
261-265 Chalmers St
117 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Open until 10pm daily.
Open until 10pm. Parking out the back. Access via Cooper/Marriot or Baptist Sts.
91 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Coles Surry Hills
Baptist Street
91 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Open until 10pm. Parking out the back. Access via Cooper/Marriot or Baptist Sts.

Entertainment & Activities

Or 'Lido' for the English. Brand-new 26 million dollar pool renovation just opened and free until Nov 2013!
272 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Prince Alfred Park
Chalmers Street
272 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Or 'Lido' for the English. Brand-new 26 million dollar pool renovation just opened and free until Nov 2013!