Nomad is a cellar door in the city where the food and wine showcase the best local produce grown and raised by Australian farmers, grape growers and wine makers. Nomad’s menu draws on the flavours of the Mediterranean using local Australian ingredients to create a dynamic and seasonally driven menu.

Wind your way down the stairs into the cavernous glory that is Hubert – home to good times and the much-worshipped chicken fricassée. Take a right at the bottom, and you’ll come to the two intimate private dining rooms, which are a world of their own. The Swillhouse team (Baxter Inn, Shady Pines, Frankie’s and Alberto’s) know their way around a bar, and the cocktail and wine choices impress just as much as the food. Get your people together, grab a room, and toast to one of Sydney’s grandest dining destinations.

Osteria di Russo & Russo pays homage to the influence of these new arrivals to Australia, and re interprets the Italian restaurants of their era, with a Mamma in the kitchen cooking things from scratch, a napkin folded into a swan on the table and a maitre D’ who remembers your wife’s birthday. Their food involves classic Italian flavour combinations, but rarely uses imported ingredients and is informed more by seasons and modern cooking techniques rather than traditional recipes. The restaurant is styled on the classic Italian trattorias of the 1970s, but serves intricate share plates, offers bar dining and doesn’t play Andrea Bocceli.

Chin Chin Sydney is housed in the historic and heritage listed Griffiths Tea Building on the corner of Wentworth Avenue and Commonwealth Street in Surry Hills. Chin Chin lives by the philosophy that eating and drinking should be fun and relaxing . The extensive menu offers a selection of Asian dishes all blended with a mix of freshness, spice, heat and exotic herbs.