Sydney Travel Guide has made sure you’re all set with the best Sydney Mardi Gras events and parties, plus a game plan for the big parade, but you’re also going to need to know where to eat when you’re strutting around town in your most fabulous Mardi Gras costumes.
Bottomless brunch, anyone? Mardi Gras is always the best time for it. So we’ve rounded up all the best food and drink specials that’ll be popping off around town over the next few weeks for the duration of Sydney Mardi Gras, which begins on Friday, February 14 and ends on Sunday, March 2.
Where to eat and drink for Sydney Mardi Gras
1. Stamp your Margarita Passport
ESCA Group and Orendain Tequila have had a little love affair as of late. And the power couple is flirting through Mardi Gras with one of February’s most playful drink offerings. The Margarita Passport is your chance to sip and soiree at the same time, with all of the group’s Sydney venues— AALIA, Nour, Lilymu, Ito, Joji and Henrietta—offering seven unique margaritas inspired by love, pride and the irrepressible energy that blankets the city each year in February.
There’s a bit of a game here. Go around and pick up your passport at any of the above venues and collect a stamp for each margarita you try. Five stamps will get you a $100 voucher to spend at any of Esca’s venues. But you might as well go another round, right? If you’ve got the stamina, pick up a sixth stamp and you’ll get a $250 voucher with free entry to the Mardi Gras Party at Joji on Friday, February 28. Now that’s a game we can get across.
Where: All ESCA Group venues
When: From Friday February 14
Price: Menu prices
2. Chin Chin Disco Sessions
Head on over to Chin Chin in Surry Hills where each weekend during Mardi Gras will turn into a day party with drag queen performances and signature dishes like crispy duck pancakes and drink specials like Mardi Gras magnums. The event and set menu costs just $109pp and is available from 1pm to 3pm, only on weekends. For the price you’ll get a Tommy’s Margarita on arrival and bottomless craft beer, wine and cocktails.
Considering bottomless brunches in Sydney are pretty much a rite of passage during Mardi Gras, we’re expecting these sessions to book out fast.
Where: 69 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
When: Weekends only from February 14 – March 2, 2025
Price: $109pp
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3. Mardi Gras Bottomless Drag Brunch
If you’re looking for the iconic Dean’s Diner on Kellett Street, you’ll be looking forever. It doesn’t exist anymore. Instead replaced by the equally inviting Arms Length, which is dipping into their first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with a good ol’ fashioned Mardi Gras bottomless brunch.
Head along the converted terrace on Saturday, March 1 from 12pm and you’ll get a bottomless brunch with a side of drag entertainment. The menu on offer features dishes like pork chop with yuzu mustard greens and tuna tartare with mandarin ponzu. The $110pp menu features bottomless tap beers and house wines, but you can also fork out an extra $25 to add cocktails to the equation. And given That’s just about the price of one cocktail these days, you’d have to be pretty strapped not to take the bait.
Where:7 Kellett St, Potts Point NSW 2011
When: Saturday, March 1 from 12pm
Price: $110pp ($25 cocktail add-on)
4. Karaoke Drag Brunch
Slip down the narrow little Pennys Lane and make a beeline for Luc-San. The mod-Asian restaurant is welcoming Drag Queen Hollywood from RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under as the host of the ultimate drag karaoke brunch, with Mardi Gras cocktails on arrival and a 90-minute unlimited drinks package on offer while plates of tempura oysters and dangaku eggplant are whisked around the well-dressed venue.
Where: Pennys Ln, Potts Point NSW 2011
When: Sunday, February 23 at 12:30pm
Price: $120pp
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5. Spot Drag Brunch
Cheeseburger spring rolls taste better during Mardi Gras. Merivale’s perennially popular Ms G’s is busting out an epic three-hour drink package with an Asbolut cocktail on arrival for those wise enough to attend. For $125pp, you’ll get all the Ms G’s favourites lifted by all-day DJ sets and drag performances from renowned queens like Kalin Klein and Coco Jumbo. All tickets also include a donation to the Bobby Goldsmith foundation and ACON, which is an organisation that supports people living with HIV.
Where: 155 Victoria St, Potts Point NSW 2011
When: Saturday, February 22 + Sunday, February 23 from 11:30am
Price: $125pp
6. Darlo’s Big Drag Brunch
You knew The Taphouse would be going big for Mardi Gras. The iconic Darlinghurst corner pub is throwing Darlo’s Big Drag Brunch on Saturday, February 22, offering a 2.5-hour drinks package with a Four Pillars cocktail on arrival. Dominique Topp and Jackie Daniels are playing host for the afternoon with hours of entertainment while guests pick at plates of wagyu beef and egg noodles with mushroom XO sauce and other signatures from The Taphouse menu.
Where: 122 Flinders St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
When: Saturday, February 22, 12pm – 3pm
Price: $99pp
7. The Rook’s Mardi Gras Big Gay Brunch
Bettie Blackheart and DIY mimosa bar? Say no more. The Rook is hosting one of the ultimate bottomless brunches for the Sydney Mardi Gras with a six-course sharing menu and a two-hour drinks package. And yes, cocktails are included. Plus you’ll get to add on whatever you’d like from said mimosa bar.
Where: level 7/56-58 York St, Sydney NSW 2000
When: Saturday, March 1, 2pm – 4pm
Price: $79pp
8. Mardi Cha
Yum cha, but make it Mardi Gras.
Lucky Prawn, at Marrickville’s quirky Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre, is getting involved in the Sydney Mardi Gras this year with a new concept, offered across two days from 11am to 4pm. It’ll be a rowdy yum cha session on Sunday afternoon with a relaxed, hangover-friendly vibe with DJs spinning lo-fi tunes from 4pm to late.
Where: 8/12 Sydney St, Marrickville NSW 2204
When: Sunday, March 2, 2025
Price: Usual pricing
Keen for more Sydney Mardi Gras magic? Read more
- Your ultimate guide to the 30 best Sydney Mardi Gras events
- Here’s everything you need to know about the Sydney Mardi Gras parade
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