Barangaroo lures weekend throngs with its stellar location on a formerly industrial, unused slice of the harbor foreshore that has been transformed into a vast green space. Read more.
Eva Galambos has taken Parlour X from an under-the-radar boutique to an incubator for some of the globe’s biggest fashion talent. The new home was renovated by Tobias Partners. Read more.
The Standard Store is an emporium peddling offbeat fashion discovered on trips to Europe and the U.S. Shop for bamboo-handled umbrellas from London Undercover and tees from French brand Maison Kitsuné Read more.
Next-gen tailor P. Johnson is the place to get a lightweight bespoke suit. The atelier offers three cuts, all of which employ a “floating canvas construction.” Read more.
The Intersection is a retail strip in the leafy, upscale Paddington neighborhood that stocks homegrown designers like Bassike and Zimmermann. Read more.
Tucked into a brick-lined laneway, the 31-room hotel is a study in juxtapositions: plush velvet sofas against raw brick walls; 19th-century columns and Japanese-inspired black stained wood floors. Read more.
A 172-room retrofit by architecture firm Woods Bagot with a cavernous lobby featuring red columns made from scagliola—an Italian plaster resembling marble—and a paneled skylight crowning the lobby. Read more.
The 62 rooms feature eye-catching pieces by names like PSLAB, Eloise Rapp, The Rag and Bone Man and artworks by Richard Glover and Jason Loucas. Read more.
The former warehouse’s immense atrium spine is broken up using pavilions that function as a check-in desk, bar, and series of lounges with Thonet sofas and retro video-game tables. Read more.
Expect locally-inspired motifs in the 69 rooms, from the digital artworks by Australian artists Shaun Gladwell and Dean Tirkot to the Bondi-brewed Wild Kombucha in the minibars. Read more.
Architects Luchetti Krelle have transformed the Tilbury Hotel from a classic Aussie pub into an airy ode to Danish modernism. The pastel color scheme is accented by woods and hand-quilted chairs. Read more.
The eight-course tasting menu trips a fantastical trail from sorrel-and-lime sand crab through mushroom agnolotti served in dashi broth, and ending with pineapple tacos. Read more.
Set in a cathedral-like room inside the Sydney Opera House and helmed by acclaimed chef Peter Gilmore, guests can enjoy a three-course set menu spotlighting the country’s best produce Read more.
Most people lucky enough to snag a reservation will be concentrating on the plate, where dishes like wallaby tail braised with black bean and chili show off the toque’s mastery of culinary fusion. Read more.
Architect Nick Tobias created a gorgeous visual backdrop for Euro-Asian dishes prepared over binchotan charcoal and slow-smoked in the Japanese Robata style. Read more.
Diners tuck into salumi and hand-made pasta beneath the beams of the magnificent sandstone John Solomon building. The interior showpiece is sculpture inspired by the swirling crema on an espresso. Read more.
Maurice Terzini is behind the newly minted Dolphin Hotel, a gastropub in the inner-urban suburb of Surry Hills. The heritage building was reimagined by designer George Livissianis. Read more.
Automata became an instant hit for gastronomic eats such as seaweed-wrapped hapuku fillet in a black sauce of cured roe and sea succulents that some joke is Sydney’s least Instagrammable dish. Read more.
For a primer on the country’s contemporary giants, don’t miss a visit to Roslyn Oxley9, a magnet for deep-pocketed collectors since 1982. Oxley has fostered the careers of a cadre of locals. Read more.
Fans of Brett Whiteley, the late enfant terrible of 20th-century Australian art, will thrill to the in-situ authenticity of the Brett Whiteley Studio, the painter’s former workshop and home. Read more.
Positioned at the site of an erstwhile rail yards and blacksmith in Waterloo, Carriageworks is an ambitious multi-arts center whose roster includes talent such as Nick Cave and Francesco Clemente. Read more.
The four-story space, a former Rolls Royce service depot from the 1940s, showcases one of the world’s most significant collections of Chinese contemporary art. Read more.
Circular Quay is home not only to the Opera House, but one of the most important institutions, the Museum of Contemporary Art, which holds a dress circle location overlooking Sydney Harbor. Read more.
There’s a salty, punk-rock swagger to Australia's creative class that makes a visit invigorating, like diving under a wave at Bondi Beach and then emerging, dazed but renewed. Read more.
Bold design has been a hallmark of Sydney since Danish architect Jørn Utzon won the contract to design the Sydney Opera House. Read more.
