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…
Must-see shopping in City Centre & Haymarket
City Centre & Haymarket
Easily central Sydney's best bookshop, Abbey's has many strengths. It's good on social sciences and has excellent resources for language learning,…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
Cavernous, thousand-stall Paddy’s is a covered market of mostly low-quality mass-produced tat, including stall after stall flogging cheap souvenirs –…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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 …
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
This shell-shaped shop sells lustrous pearls farmed along uninhabited coastline, from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Dampier in Western Australia…
City Centre & Haymarket
Heavy on the bestsellers, this mammoth, mainstream bookshop has more than 250,000 titles spread over three floors (including a helluva lot of Lonely…
City Centre & Haymarket
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.
City Centre & Haymarket
Japanese-born Australian designer Isogawa produces meticulously tailored women's ensembles, featuring gorgeous fabrics.
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
Oroton's wallets, handbags, belts, shoes, cufflinks and Jackie O–style sunglasses all have the air of instant classics. There are other branches at…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
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…
City Centre & Haymarket
Step into this fun, fruity palace of fancy, where flirty, frilly, flimsy fabrics are made into floaty dresses and bordello-style boudoir ornaments. Loud…
City Centre & Haymarket
An international success story, this plant-based skincare range from South Australia is a decadent treat. There's another branch in Westfield Sydney.
City Centre & Haymarket
The new principal store of the New York jewellery chain has further boosted the profile of this section of King Street, which also has a couple of other…
City Centre & Haymarket
Classy, classy, classy. Sparkly things for a touch-and-go proposal or a night at the opera? This long-established Sydney jewellery shop is a byword for…
City Centre & Haymarket
Some excellent Aboriginal art is for sale at this gallery near Wynyard, and staff are knowledgable and helpful. They can also arrange packing and postage.
City Centre & Haymarket
Like a tractor beam, Kings drags in fans of the genre in with its collection of comics, manga, graphic novels, toys, collectibles and apparel.
City Centre & Haymarket
Decorative art pieces, antique jewellery and high security. On the ground floor of the QVB.
City Centre & Haymarket
Overseas luxury brands compete with branches of Leona Edmiston and others in this handsome space under an office tower.
City Centre & Haymarket
This large shopping centre above Paddy's Markets includes a big food court, heaps of discount fashion outlet shops (cheap Converse, anyone?), a…
