Is Hay Street Market worth it? At $7 a prawn, it may be hard to stomach

Prawns from Hay St Market

We’re sitting at Little Midden in Hay Street Market, Sydney’s new foodie market in the middle of Paddy’s Market in Chinatown. Beside us, a Malaysian lady and her Australian partner have just been served BBQ skull prawns with eucalyptus butter and desert lime aioli. She doesn’t look impressed. For $14, she has just received two

Sydney Hay St Market: the ultimate guide

Hay St Market in Sydney's Haymarket is the city's hottest food destination. Image supplied.

Hay St Market, the brand-new food hub at the historic Paddy’s Markets, opens today. This expansion has been in the works for three years now, with Sydneysiders pleased to see the space being given a new lease of life. Hay St Market is part of the larger Market City precinct, known for its vibrant shopping

Review of Glass Brasserie

Everyone's asking what's next for Glass Brasserie without Luke Mangan, and the answer is Natalie Murphy. But will she manage to step into the role and lead the way?

Luke Mangan hung up his apron at Glass Brasserie in 2024, ending the 20-year partnership, so what’s next for the Hilton Sydney restaurant? Few expected to see a new Glass Brasserie without Luke Mangan anytime soon. For many years, Luke Mangan and Glass Brasserie were synonymous, so the news that their 20-year partnership was coming

This fine dining experience is inspired by… cannibalism

A red dish from Nel restaurant

Chef Nelly Robinson has built up a solid reputation for doing things differently, sometimes channeling his boundless culinary wizardry into vibrant Disney-inspired degustation menus, while at other times playfully elevating fast food staples like a KFC-inspired fine dining menu. This time, his Surry Hills bunker restaurant, Nel, is getting dark. Very dark. In partnership with

Is Saint Peter doing the best breakfast in Sydney right now?

Breakfast at Saint Peter

It’s been exactly one month since Josh and Julie Niland revealed The Grand National Hotel, their ambitious revamp of a neighbourly Paddington pub dating back to 1890. With the couple’s experimental seafood restaurant now marked as one of the world’s best, the triple-hatted Saint Peter has been translated as a stylish hotel restaurant, elevating the

$60 for stir fried prawns: Golden Century goes for the jackpot at Crown Sydney

Baskets of dumplings on a table

Would you pay $17 for three pieces of scallop and shrimp siu mai? How about prawns stir fry with salted egg yolk—a dish that’d cost you around $28 in Burwood—for the punchy price of $60? When Golden Century announced that Sydney’s most emblematic Chinese restaurant would open at Crown Sydney, years after the chef’s favourite

16 best ramen in Sydney: Where to slurp top noodles

best ramen bowl sydney

There’s nothing more soulful than sitting down to a big bowl of ramen during winter. Thankfully, there are plenty of spots around Sydney where you can do just that, from Chinatown to Crows Nest. Each ramen institution has its own method of creating that flavourful, distinctive broth, but the art also comes down to the