Sydney! So great! So expensive! So many good places to swim and good pastries to eat! For our first snack-sized ep of Season Two, we go long on our ideal inner-Sydney days (assuming traffic doesn’t exist, the weather is perfect and budget is no issue). If you haven’t already, click below to hear all the places SoMo likes to go for her sour beer hit, and the ocean pool where you’re pretty much guaranteed to run into SoRo if you’re there on the weekend before 9am.
SoMo’s Sydney Day
Breakfast - Brickfields Bakery in Chippendale, for croissants, broccoli sandwiches and other delicious treats. Check Flour & Stone too if you’re a 🥐 fiend!
Facial - Luna Beauty & Apothecary in Surry Hills to get that Sydney glow ✨
Coffee - Artificer Coffee in Surry Hills to refuel and people watch.
Swim - Camp Cove in Watson’s Bay for a calm, harbour dip.
Lunch - Sean’s Panaroma for an understated, decadent long lunch (BYO too!)
Shop - Incu in Paddington for those tie dye t-shirts (and other goodies) that SM loves.
- Koskela in Rosebery if you want to lug home a rug, or a nice couch, or some fancy ceramics.
Snack - Jarern Chai Grocer and Boon Cafe for duck noodles (if you want a second lunch) or delicious Thai snacks from the grocer.
Drink - Love, Tilly Devine, in Darlinghurst for natural Australian wine by the glass and great snacks.
- 10 William Street for pasta, wine and eavesdropping on the fancy locals.
- Wildflower Brewery in Marrickville for beers brewed with indigenous yeasts.
- The Grifter in Marrickville for the beers and because it’s a ‘dog party town’
- Yulli’s Brewery in Alexandria for our favourite - the Dolly Aldrin sour!
Dinner - Bella Brutta in Newtown for the clam and mortadella pizza, and the anchovy menu 🍕🍕🍕
Fancy Dinner - Cured and Cultured Bar at Bennelong, because you need to visit the Opera house at least once
Late night - Golden Age Cinema for a movie and nightcap 🍸
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SoRo’s Sydney Day
Breakfast - Iggy’s in Bronte for perfect 🥐
Swim- McIver’s Baths in Coogee (women only) & Mahon Pool in Maroubra to experience the joy of Sydney’s ocean pools.
Coffee - Neighbourhood Coffee in Surry hills to pick up a flat white on the go.
Gallery - Sainte Cloche in Paddington to browse some of Sydney’s emerging artists.
Lunch - The Old Fitz in Woolloomooloo for a great pub lunch in a Sydney classic.
Shop - Zoo Emporium in Surry Hills to play dress ups 👗
Snack - Ciccone & Sons Gelateria in Redfern for a scoop or three of yuzu, black sesame or rose water gelato.
Drink - Arcadia Liquors in Redfern for the perfect first date.
Dinner - Emma’s Snack Bar in Enmore and order extra garlic sauce.
- Don Peppino’s in Darlinghurst for groups, for couples or for a solo bowl of pasta at the bar. 🍝🍝🍝
Fancy Dinner - Ester in Chippendale because it is perfect.
Late night - The Unicorn Hotel in Paddington, for natural wine and dancing.
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Extra Time
Aaaaallll our Season One recommendations (Linking them all here was driving us crazy, so we’ve made you a handy google map! We’ll keep updating this.)
BARS
Cantina OK, CBD.
RESTAURANTS
Lankan Filling Station, East Sydney.
Sang by Mabasa, Surry Hills.
Yurripi Yakitori, Crows Nest.
Otto Ristorante, Woolloomooloo.
Sagra, Darlinghurst.
CAFES
Room 10, Potts Point.
Fleetwood Macchiato, Erskineville.
Cornersmith, Marrickville.
Crumpets by Merna at Carriageworks Market.
SHOPS
Faros Bros Seafood, Marrickville.
Harris Farm, various locations.
THINGS TO DO
Art Gallery of NSW Film Series, Sydney.
China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills.
Scout Pilates, St Peters.
Nah Mate Pokes Tattoos, Woolloomooloo.
And finally, for all our distant listeners, here’s some of our favourite, books, movies and TV shows that will let you love Sydney from afar:
Harp in the South by Ruth Park, Booktopia
Sydney by Delia Falconer, Booktopia
Grace Cossington’s Artwork, Art Gallery of NSW
Two Hands | Youtube
Love My Way | SevenPlus
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What are you doing still sitting here? Go eat a croissant in the sun somewhere!
S&S