City Centre & Haymarket
Descend the stairs and you'll think you're in a 1970s pizzeria, complete with plastic grapevines, snapshots covering the walls and tasty pizza slices ($6)…
Must-see nightlife in City Centre & Haymarket
City Centre & Haymarket
We love the dark romantic opium-den atmosphere of this small bar secreted away in a basement by a shirt shop. It's an atmospheric spot for anything from a…
City Centre & Haymarket
A fully formed 18th-century English pub, complete with overstuffed armchairs, roaring fireplace and portraits of blue blooded noblemen. The chatty bar…
City Centre & Haymarket
Down a lane off George St, Ivy is the HQ of the all-pervading Merivale Group. It's a fashionable complex of bars, restaurants – and even a swimming pool…
City Centre & Haymarket
Slip in to this cheerfully colourful and atmospheric warren on the edge of Darling Harbour and bump hips with the kids. There are bars, pool tables, a…
City Centre & Haymarket
Yes, it really is down that dark lane and through that unmarked door (there are two easily spotted bars on this courtyard, but this place is through a…
City Centre & Haymarket
Credited with boosting energy, detoxifying, and assisting concentration, Matcha‑ya’s bright-green matcha powder is sourced direct from Japan. But the…
City Centre & Haymarket
Built for a staggering £32,000 in 1893 as part of the Adams Hotel on Pitt St, this ornate underground bar is one of the best places in town for putting on…
City Centre & Haymarket
A self-consciously hip member of Sydney's speakeasy brigade, this 'legitimate importer of bracing tonics and fortifying liquid' attracts a cashed-up,…
City Centre & Haymarket
The cocktails at this 47th-floor revolving bar aren't cheap, but they're still substantially cheaper than admission to Sydney Tower – and it's…
City Centre & Haymarket
Billing itself as a 'retrosexual haven of cosmopolitan kitsch and faded granny glamour', Grandma's hits the mark. A stag's head greets you on the stairs…
City Centre & Haymarket
Seemingly designed for one-time grungsters turned stockbrokers, this pleasant covered rooftop bar – it gains substantially when they retract the roof on…
City Centre & Haymarket
Don’t worry, this bar doesn’t sell wine to actual bambini – it’s a very grown-up, European affair. The tiny, dark-wood-panelled room is the sort of place…
City Centre & Haymarket
Establishment’s cashed-up crush proves that the art of swilling cocktails after a hard city day is not lost. Sit at the majestic marble bar or in the…
City Centre & Haymarket
No, it's not a themed bar but a real barber's. Walk on past the blokes getting a short-back-and-sides and you'll find a seductive spot peddling gin,…
City Centre & Haymarket
On hot summer nights, Ryan’s outdoor courtyard is packed with after-workers and travellers launching their evenings. Sexy anticipation laces the air, put…
City Centre & Haymarket
With great craft beers available in a regularly rotated tap selection, this place should keep you off the streets for a while. Pull up a stool and work…
City Centre & Haymarket
Ride the Hilton escalators up to Zeta, which captivates a chic young city crew with its plush lounges and clubroom-style decor. Here you can sip grilled…
City Centre & Haymarket
This three-storey art-deco hotel has a smooth and snappy ground-floor bar doing a nice line in Greek pub grub, a Laotian restaurant upstairs and a club in…
City Centre & Haymarket
A fine example of Sydney's penchant for fake speakeasys, Stitch is accessed via swinging doors at the rear of what looks like a tailor's workshop. Hidden…
City Centre & Haymarket
This dark and easygoing basement bar is curiously combined with a record shop, so you can browse the vinyl (if the shop part is still open) with a drink…
City Centre & Haymarket
This is pure Sydney excess: a gentlemen's-club vibe with a whiff of Ottoman Empire opulence. Melt into a deep, leather chair, order a cocktail and wait…
City Centre & Haymarket
This sumptuous, multistorey heritage building (1836), which was once the School of Arts, has an attractive main bar, a restaurant and wine lounge upstairs…
