Guidebook for Surry Hills

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Guidebook for Surry Hills

Food Scene

Amazing modern Italian restaurant with constantly evolving blackboard menu. Ricotta Pannacotta with Coffee Caramel Sauce is the most amazing dessert in the world. Wines are great.
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Vini
118 Devonshire Street
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Amazing modern Italian restaurant with constantly evolving blackboard menu. Ricotta Pannacotta with Coffee Caramel Sauce is the most amazing dessert in the world. Wines are great.
This place is owned and run by two friends of ours – Benny and Elvis. They work in front of the grill all night, sweating away, and now they just got a hat.
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Porteño
50 Holt St
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This place is owned and run by two friends of ours – Benny and Elvis. They work in front of the grill all night, sweating away, and now they just got a hat.
Good food, good coffee (most days).
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Baffi & Mo Espresso
94 Redfern St
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Good food, good coffee (most days).
Cute little place with outside seating. Gets afternoon sun. Great bagels too!
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Coffee Tea & Me
93B Redfern St
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Cute little place with outside seating. Gets afternoon sun. Great bagels too!
Nice outdoor seating for those lovely clear blue sky days.
Twig Cafe
357 Cleveland St
Nice outdoor seating for those lovely clear blue sky days.
Friends of ours runs this place too - American diner style menu with a contemporary cuisine twist.
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The Eathouse Diner
306 Chalmers Street
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Friends of ours runs this place too - American diner style menu with a contemporary cuisine twist.
Great coffee but can be busy for takeaways.
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Café Giulia
92 Abercrombie St
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Great coffee but can be busy for takeaways.
Seafood restaurant. The best takeaway fish and chips (or mash) around ($8.50).
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Mohr Fish
116 Devonshire St
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Seafood restaurant. The best takeaway fish and chips (or mash) around ($8.50).
Great coffee. Nice lunch boards. Wine and nibbles.
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Brewtown Surry Hills
536 Crown St
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Great coffee. Nice lunch boards. Wine and nibbles.
The BEST hommous the world has ever eaten. Creamy, garliccy goodness. Get a takeaway tub of hommous and beetroot dips and a loaf of Turkish pide.
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Erciyes Restaurant
409 Cleveland St
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The BEST hommous the world has ever eaten. Creamy, garliccy goodness. Get a takeaway tub of hommous and beetroot dips and a loaf of Turkish pide.
Opened by friends Benny & Elvis, this place has become a bit of a local institution. Great food, fantastic Argentinian and Chilean wines.
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WyNo X Bodega
50 Gladstone St
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Opened by friends Benny & Elvis, this place has become a bit of a local institution. Great food, fantastic Argentinian and Chilean wines.
The best coffee in Surry Hills, possibly in Sydney. Interesting lunch menu. Open Mon-Fri
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Single O Surry Hills
64 Reservoir St
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The best coffee in Surry Hills, possibly in Sydney. Interesting lunch menu. Open Mon-Fri
Pizza and Beer. What more do you need? Delicious pizza. Delicious wines and beers. Dark and moody.
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Pizza Birra
500 Crown St
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Pizza and Beer. What more do you need? Delicious pizza. Delicious wines and beers. Dark and moody.
Try the Eggplant with Miso, Thinly Sliced Kingfish, Baked Salmon, Spider Maki, Spicy Edamame, Morton Bay Bug Tempura and too many other delicious things.
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Toko Sydney
275 Crown St
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Try the Eggplant with Miso, Thinly Sliced Kingfish, Baked Salmon, Spider Maki, Spicy Edamame, Morton Bay Bug Tempura and too many other delicious things.
Best late night Falafel on Crown St
Zeno Restaurant & Pizza
Best late night Falafel on Crown St
Fantastic little pasta restaurant. Amazing fresh pastas, great Osso Bucco, nice wine list or BYO. From memory they don't take dinner bookings...
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il baretto
496 Bourke St
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Fantastic little pasta restaurant. Amazing fresh pastas, great Osso Bucco, nice wine list or BYO. From memory they don't take dinner bookings...
Great Japanese.
Uchi Lounge
15 Brisbane St
Great Japanese.
Thai. Yum. Shortgrain is a new bar downstairs and lunch joint by day.
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Longrain Restaurant
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Thai. Yum. Shortgrain is a new bar downstairs and lunch joint by day.
Abduls, Fatimas both fantastic and classic old school Lebanese. Take-away falafels from both these joints are great. Eat in cushion rooms at Fatimas and Hannibals, belly dancing most nights.
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Fatima's Lebanese Restaurant
296 Cleveland Street
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Abduls, Fatimas both fantastic and classic old school Lebanese. Take-away falafels from both these joints are great. Eat in cushion rooms at Fatimas and Hannibals, belly dancing most nights.
Better pizza than the reviews say. Good, safe late night alternative to Pizza Hut or Dominos.
Lorentto Pizzeria
512 Elizabeth St
Better pizza than the reviews say. Good, safe late night alternative to Pizza Hut or Dominos.
Holt St. next to Vini Restaurant Open Mon-Fri until 3pm Phil makes great coffee and I love the Tuna Wrap (but get them to do it on sourdough if they have it).
Koko Espresso Bar
118 Devonshire St
Holt St. next to Vini Restaurant Open Mon-Fri until 3pm Phil makes great coffee and I love the Tuna Wrap (but get them to do it on sourdough if they have it).

Drinks & Nightlife

Young crowd, good cocktails, cold beer, fantastic bar food (Mexican-style, try the deep-friend pickles with ranch dipping sauce). Nice beer garden out back, pool tables and darts upstairs.
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Annandale Hotel
17 Parramatta Rd
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Young crowd, good cocktails, cold beer, fantastic bar food (Mexican-style, try the deep-friend pickles with ranch dipping sauce). Nice beer garden out back, pool tables and darts upstairs.
Good food too.
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Freda's
107-109 Regent St
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Good food too.
Commonly called the Shakey by locals, good cheap pub grub.
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Shakespeare Hotel
200 Devonshire St
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Commonly called the Shakey by locals, good cheap pub grub.
Our favourite pub.
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The Cricketers Arms Hotel
106 Fitzroy St
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Our favourite pub.
An institution. So much to be said but what can I say. Art deco and simple and wonderful and never-changing.
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Hollywood Hotel
2 Foster Street
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An institution. So much to be said but what can I say. Art deco and simple and wonderful and never-changing.
Wine bar and vegetarian restaurant (though not openly so). A less pretentious joint than Millevini or Tokonoma.
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Yulli's
417 Crown St
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Wine bar and vegetarian restaurant (though not openly so). A less pretentious joint than Millevini or Tokonoma.
Wine bar and Enoteca (Italian Bottle Shop)
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50 Holt Street
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Wine bar and Enoteca (Italian Bottle Shop)

Arts & Culture

One of the most interesting and highly-regarded playhouses in Australia. www.belvoir.com.au
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Belvoir Street Theatre
25 Belvoir St
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One of the most interesting and highly-regarded playhouses in Australia. www.belvoir.com.au
Hollywood and blockbuster films. http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Entertainment_Quarter.aspx?type=
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The Bavarian Entertainment Quarter
212 Bent St
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Hollywood and blockbuster films. http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Entertainment_Quarter.aspx?type=
Independent and foreign cinema with a large amount of Bollywood films http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Cinema_Paris.aspx?type=
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The Bavarian Entertainment Quarter
212 Bent St
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Independent and foreign cinema with a large amount of Bollywood films http://www.hoyts.com.au/Cinemas/locations/Cinema_Paris.aspx?type=
Independent and foreign films http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/
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Palace Verona
17 Oxford St
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Independent and foreign films http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/

Everything Else

Five brand-new Plexicushion hardcourts. Open until 11pm every night. (FYI Office is around back) Bookings: www.jensenstennis.com.au
City Community Tennis
Five brand-new Plexicushion hardcourts. Open until 11pm every night. (FYI Office is around back) Bookings: www.jensenstennis.com.au
Surry Hills institution. Huge line-ups here on the weekend for the finest baguettes, croissants and coffee. Eat-in if you can score a table outside or in.
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Bourke Street Bakery Surry Hills
633 Bourke St
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Surry Hills institution. Huge line-ups here on the weekend for the finest baguettes, croissants and coffee. Eat-in if you can score a table outside or in.
Saturday until 1pm. Organic growers markets and other nice foods.
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Carriageworks
245 Wilson St
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Saturday until 1pm. Organic growers markets and other nice foods.
Golf course open daily. Largest driving range in the Southern Hemisphere open late.
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Moore Park Golf House
Cleveland Street
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Golf course open daily. Largest driving range in the Southern Hemisphere open late.
Apparently the best local yoga. Though there are others around.
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BodyMindLife Surry Hills
432 Mary St
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Apparently the best local yoga. Though there are others around.
Vintage clothing, knick knacks, gozleme, fun atmosphere. Get there early. First Saturday of every month. http://www.shnc.org/markets/
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Surry Hills Market
Crown Street
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Vintage clothing, knick knacks, gozleme, fun atmosphere. Get there early. First Saturday of every month. http://www.shnc.org/markets/
On Crown St. These guys will do bulk-billing. Not sure how late they're open.
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Surry Hills
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On Crown St. These guys will do bulk-billing. Not sure how late they're open.
Bus, Train and Ferry info & trip planning www.131500.com.au/
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Central Station
Eddy Avenue
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Bus, Train and Ferry info & trip planning www.131500.com.au/

Essentials

Open until 10pm daily.
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Woolworths Redfern
261-265 Chalmers St
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Open until 10pm daily.
Open until 10pm. Parking out the back. Access via Cooper/Marriot or Baptist Sts.
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Coles Surry Hills
Baptist Street
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Open until 10pm. Parking out the back. Access via Cooper/Marriot or Baptist Sts.

Entertainment & Activities

Or 'Lido' for the English. Brand-new 26 million dollar pool renovation just opened and free until Nov 2013!
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Prince Alfred Park
Chalmers Street
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Or 'Lido' for the English. Brand-new 26 million dollar pool renovation just opened and free until Nov 2013!