Barangaroo worships the sunset with new Golden Hour festival

Golden Hours Barangaroo is a new three-week-long festival geared towards celebrating the sunset.
25 of Barangaroo’s best venues will offer tempting food and drink deals, including 2 x Aperol Spritz for $30.
Some of Sydney’s best DJs are coming through and there will also be a pop up beauty salon.
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Haymarket isn’t the only precinct surging to life over March and April. While Neon Playground will take over Chinatown, Barangaroo is getting its own three-week-long series of sunset sessions with all sorts of food specials and live entertainment timed for late afternoons.

Golden Hours Barangaroo will thrive each day from 3pm to 7pm from Thursday, March 20 to Saturday, April 5, pulling together 25 of Barangaroo’s best venues including favourites Annamesse, NOLA Smokehouse and Bar, love.fish and CIRQ at Crown Sydney. Each will be toasting to the sunset with various food and drink deals including two Aperol Spritz for $30 and a bunch of menu highlights (that are listed below for your convenience).

Barangaroo isn’t taking this one lightly either. Presented by Aperol Spritz, the sunset-worshipping festival has cobbled together a number of lifestyle offerings, including a luxury hair and makeup salon that’ll pop up at various spots around The Streets of Barangaroo. A rotating roster of DJs will help bring the spaces to life with Andrew Levins, Loosie Grind, Lucy Smith and Pho The Girls taking the decks.

There’s even a free closing party to get involved in. Locked in for Barangaroo House on Saturday, April 5, popular band Return to Rio and Double Touch DJs will lead one last sunset celebration with best-dressed prized up for grabs based in the event’s gold and orange theme.

Keen to head along and watch the sunset bring Barangaroo to life? Here’s all the genuinely tempting food specials that’ll be offered across the three weeks.

Barangaroo is going all out to capture the feeling of golden hour (photo supplied).

Annamese

Sydney Rocks oyster with nuoc cham haisan dressing, green chili, lime and black caviar $7
Crispy rice prawn and chicken cakes, chestnuts with sweet chili sauce $28
Annamese rice paper rolls, bbq chicken, tiger prawns, vermicelli, lettuce, Vietnamese mints with hoisin and peanut sauce $22

Belles Hot Chicken

Two Pounds of Belles’ infamous Original Buffalo Wings and two Aperol Spritz $40
Nashville Spicy Sandwich and Aperol Spritz $25
Double Dip Crinkle Fries and Aperol Spritz $20

CIRQ at Crown Sydney

Octopus and piquillo pepper pintxo, orange aioli, baguette $10
Aperol cured kingfish tartlet, cream cheese, prosecco orange gel, coral tuile $12
Paella arancini, romesco sauce, saffron and carrot emulsion $20

love.fish

Sydney Rock oysters, flying fish roe $6 ea
Salmon ceviche, citrus soy dressing, avocado cream $28
House taramasalata, salmon roe, focaccia $18
Pumpkin, fried sage arancini, taleggio $21
Sweet potato fries, aioli $15

NOLA Smokehouse & Bar

Aperol Spritz paired with Fremantle charred octopus, capsicum salsa and black sesame mayo $28
Aperitivo Hour Menu with snacks paired with Aperol Spritz $55pp (5-7pm)

Sax Bar

Sax Apertivo Spread $35pp including prosciutto wrapped house grissin; gruyère croquettes; salt and pepper calamari; and smoked eggplant dip with pine nuts and olive oil
24m San Danielle prosciutto-wrapped grissini $12
Bread plate house grissini and focaccia $9
Crumbled fetta-stuffed olives $14
Gruyere potato croquettes with truffle mayo $22
Deli plate with prosciutto and cacciatore, pickled cucumber $27
Burrata with parsley oil and pepper $16
Smoked eggplant dip with pine nuts and olive oil $13
Whipped ricotta with preserved lemon and mint $13
Wagyu MBS7+ bresaola with pickled onion $29
Honey ricotta zucchini flowers with 12m Parmigiano Reggiano $26
Grilled octopus with pea and mint puree and pickled red cabbage $27
Calamari fritti with citrus pepper $23
Kingfish crudo with jalapeño, pomegranate, citrus dressing $27