City Takeover: Sydney Guide
Sydney days have a way of stretching out - coffee after a swim, long lunches, harbour walks, and somehow one drink before dinner never stays at one. With that easy surf-city energy, these are the places we’d take a friend for a very good day.
Mornings Start Over Coffee
We’d start at Paramount Coffee Project, because coffee here is serious business. Order breakfast, settle in, and let the morning unfold. It’s the kind of place where no one seems in a rush, which feels very Sydney.
For Long Afternoons
We’d spend part of the day at the Art Gallery of NSW, especially 'The Tank' - an old wartime oil bunker turned exhibition space that feels unlike anywhere else in the city. If the Biennale is on, even better.
Then lunch at Pieno, ideally outside in the courtyard. A long lunch, a little people-watching, maybe another glass of something cold. Sydney does afternoons well.
When Day Turns Into Evening
As the sun drops, we’d head to Ace Hotel Sydney for a drink in the lobby bar - especially when there’s a DJ on. It has that easy, social energy the city does so well.
Dinner is Pellegrino 2000. Classic Italian, buzzing tables, the kind of place where ordering “for the table” is always the right move.
And if no one’s ready to call it, El Primo Sanchez for margaritas. Because in Sydney, one place is rarely the last stop.
There’s an ease to Sydney we always come back for - good coffee, long lunches, late dinners and plans that stretch. These are our saved places, the ones we’d text you before your flight lands.
