Must see shopping in City Centre & Haymarket

Constructed in 1891, the beautiful Strand rivals the QVB in the ornateness stakes. The three floors of designer fashions, Australiana and old-world coffee…

Easily central Sydney's best bookshop, Abbey's has many strengths. It's good on social sciences and has excellent resources for language learning,…

The magnificent QVB takes up a whole block and boasts nearly 200 shops on five levels. It’s a High Victorian neo-Gothic masterpiece – without doubt Sydney…

Cavernous, thousand-stall Paddy’s is a covered market of mostly low-quality mass-produced tat, including stall after stall flogging cheap souvenirs –…

DJs is Sydney’s premier department store, with high-quality clothing and a highbrow food court. A revamp has added a flashy new designer shoe floor on…

Partners of music freaks beware: don't let them descend the stairs into this shop unless you are prepared for a lengthy delay. The shelves are stocked…

Got a cold or wet head, or a serious case of the Crocodile Dundees? Strand Hatters will cover your crown with a classically Australian Akubra bush hat …

The centre's behemoth shopping centre is a bafflingly large complex gobbling up Sydney Tower and a fair chunk of Pitt St Mall. The 5th-floor food court is…

This shell-shaped shop sells lustrous pearls farmed along uninhabited coastline, from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Dampier in Western Australia…

Heavy on the bestsellers, this mammoth, mainstream bookshop has more than 250,000 titles spread over three floors (including a helluva lot of Lonely…

This long-established spot is Sydney's best music store for metal of all genres and hard rock. Horns up! The entrance is on Bathurst St.

Japanese-born Australian designer Isogawa produces meticulously tailored women's ensembles, featuring gorgeous fabrics.

Urban cowboys and country folk can’t get enough of this hard-wearing outback gear. It’s the kind of stuff politicians don when they want to seem ‘fair…

Run by hobbyists for people who take toys seriously, Hobbyco's aisles fill with excited kids (big and small) effusing over slot cars, Meccano sets, train…

At seven storeys, Myer (formerly Grace Bros) is one of Sydney’s largest stores and a prime venue for after-Christmas sales. It’s marginally less swanky…

The old Anthony Horden & Sons department store on this site was demolished in the '80s, and it took 20 years for World Square to emerge in its place. City…

Oroton's wallets, handbags, belts, shoes, cufflinks and Jackie O–style sunglasses all have the air of instant classics. There are other branches at…

Among all the posh chocolate and glitzy threads of the over-the-top Queen Victoria Building, it's refreshing to find this upstairs hobby shop dedicated to…

This outpost of the Japanese chain is the largest bookshop in Sydney, with over 300,000 titles. There's an excellent comics and magazine section and a…

Step into this fun, fruity palace of fancy, where flirty, frilly, flimsy fabrics are made into floaty dresses and bordello-style boudoir ornaments. Loud…