11 great restaurant specials running during Sydney Festival

A spread of dim sum and dumplings in Sydney.

Help take the pressure off the finances this Sydney Festival with these exclusive restaurant deals. With Sydney Festival currently underway for yet another year, a number of restaurants have popped up offering specials to help punters eat well for less. There are a total of eleven restaurants forming part of Sydney Festival’s “Festival Feasts” program,

Turf war: explaining the cabana debate dividing Australians

Beach cabanas crowd an Australian beach

A fierce debate over our favourite patches of sand has emerged as Australia’s best beaches shoulder a quintessential summer. Beach cabanas are not a new sight. Over the past ten years, at least, you’d have expected to see at least a few cabanas at every beach from Bondi to Cottesloe. But it’s been a bit

What’s open on New Year’s Day?

Woolworths pick up

What’s open and closed on New Year’s Day? Are supermarkets open on New Year’s Day? Yes. All Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets will be open on New Year’s Day. When it comes to IGA, they are operated independently so all individual stories choose their own hours. Don’t worry, if you need a box of Pizza

Sydney’s favourite Christmas burger is back for one week only

A massive Christmas burger from BL Burgers in Sydney

Sydney has its very own Christmas burger this week, with the latest special from the inventive BL Burgers geared towards the festive season. The Netflix show Ugly Delicious springs to mind when we think about the constant weekly specials over at the small-but-mighty chain of burger shops. BL Burgers has been at this game for

Sydney’s Christmas Day weather forecast is “perfect”

Christmas Day weather in Sydney is looking perfect

The Christmas Day forecast is in for Sydney and it’s all-round good news for anyone wanting to dial in that quintessential Harbour City lifestyle. All signs indicate that we’re in for a beautiful Christmas Day. Accuweather has reported “abundant sunshine” for December 25, 2024, making it highly probably Christmas Day in Sydney this year will

Sydney celebrates as Shark Beach reopens after three long years

Shark Beach in Nielsen Park, Sydney

Sydneysiders have let out a sigh of relief as the beloved Shark Beach at Nielsen Park in Vaucluse officially reopened on Thursday, December 12. The popular harbour beach, defined by its placid, protected waters and gentle shores, was inaccessible for the past three summers, shuttered in 2022 by the National Parks and Wildlife Service after

Relax: The Argyle closing doesn’t mean Sydney’s nightlife is dead

The Argyle in Sydney

Sydney is dead” has become a mindlessly repetitious slogan for cynical ex-partygoers who don’t actually go to nightclubs anymore. While the city’s night-time economy still has a long path to recovery from the sad sludge of misguided lockout laws, the pandemic and an inescapable cost-of-living crisis, significant efforts have been made to stop the doom

Sydney set for a huge 1000-square-metre Scandi bathhouse

A modern bathhouse with Scandinavian design

Historically, Australia’s most elaborate bathhouses and spas can be found along the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria and up in Queensland. But there’s been a trend of the country’s best wellness hubs creeping into Sydney lately, assumedly because everyone wants a slice of the city’s rapidly changing lifestyle scene. We already know that Queensland’s famous Soak

Athens is on the menu as Olympus arrives in Sydney

Olympus dining in Redfern, Sydney

Sydney’s new $500 million lifestyle precinct dances on the edges of Redfern and Surry Hills. Wunderlich Lane is part of a final wave of impressive high-profile openings bookending a transformative year for Sydney’s hospitality scene. Multi-coloured Asian noodle bar Island Radio has already opened, and now, just days after we’ve been gifted a new Greek