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

Bar Julius is a vibrant new European diner in Surry Hills

Bar Julius in Surry Hills, Sydney

Details have been released for the hotly anticipated EVE Hotel in Surry Hills as well as its signature restaurant, created by the same team behind world-renowned steakhouses The Gidley and Bistecca.ย  Bar Julius will open at the spirited 102-room property, aligning on the hotel’s playful design with a colourful mural ceiling, by Dinosaur Designs co-founder

Is Sydney finally on track to become a 24-hour city?

The notorious Kings Cross nightlife district was once decimated by Sydney's lockout laws

It looks like things are starting to really pick up for Sydney’s night-time economy, if the latest plan from the City of Sydney Council is anything to go by. Announced this morning, Sydney’s new 24-hour entertainment precinct plans will make it possible for clubs, pubs, nightclubs and even cafes and retail shops to extend trading

Surry Hills set for sweeping change as Wunderlich Lane is revealed

Wunderlich Lane will be Sydney's newest precinct

Sydney’s impressive growth spurt continues in the coming months with a brand new precinct, Wunderlich Lane, wedged between Redfern and Surry Hills. Before the final curtain closes on 2024, Wunderlich Lane will rise up as one of Sydney’s most transformative and exciting lifestyle precincts with a slick new boutique hotel and a broad strip of

Surry Hills favourite Nour enters a new era

Ibrahim Kassif and owner Ibby posing in front of Surry Hills restaurant Nour

It’s been 8 years since Ibby Moubadder made Middle Eastern food cool again with his ferociously popular Surry Hills restaurant, Nour. Now, the restaurateur hopes to take his modern Lebanese diner into a new era with ex-Stanbuli chef Ibrahim Kasif. I’m seated in Nour’s private dining room, one curtain lift away from a bustling dining