Sydney Cuisine

Other Australian cities hate to admit it, but Sydney- with its multicultural melting pot, abundant fresh produce and geographic assets- has won the food trophy. Adelaide may have the great wines, Melbourne the café culture and Hobart the seafood, but Sydney has it all, and right on Sydney Harbour. 

Restaurants hum, and as inner-city gentrification continues, more and more corner pubs are transforming into brasseries, bookshop are installing expresso machines and locals are finding their own kitchens increasingly wearisome. 

Moder Australian cuisine -Mod Oz- continues to evolve as chefs consult Asia for fusion ingredients and Europe for technique. Cooking focuses on fresh, healthy eating, drawing on rich and diverse migrant-cummunity influences. At the top end, celebrity chefs plate up mini-masterpieces for wealthy corporate crowds. Those on tighter budgets need not despair; thousands of cafés, bistros and restaurants offer innovative, quality meals at moderate prices. 

Most of Sydney's licensed restaurants cant't serve patrons alchool unless they order a meal. many restaurants havea good wine list, pushing Australian product. Restaurant prices are more expensive than in the bottle shops (shops especially to buy alcohol as you cannot buy alcohol in supermarkets). A decent drop will set you back about $30 and up. Wine sold by the glass is also widely available. Many Sydney restaurants advertise themselves as BYO. This means that you can 'bring your own' alcohol though you will generaly be charged a corkage fee (anywhere from $5 to $15 per bottle, sometimes per person). Some licensed places also allow you to BYO, often restricted to bottled wine only. 

Smoking is banned in all restaurants, cafés, pubs and bars. 

Cafés and restaurants are generally open seven days, with many cafés serving food from 7am to 10pm. Most restaurants are open for lunch and dinner, closing typically between 3pm and 6pm, while cafés and patisseries are the best bet for breakfast. 

The Aria restaurant

The Forty One

But Sydney is not only restaurants, it is a succesion of many fast food restaurants, giant food courts where you can seet just like in the canteen. In a word, Sydney has a lot of fast food. Actually, you can eat something wherever or whenever you want, as you can find a lot of fast food restaurants in everystreet. These restaurants are more important in number than other shops, just like clothes shops for example.This seems to me a massive invitation for you to eat some greasy food at any hour of the day. It appears that most Australian people do not have a healthy way of life, eating so much fast food products. The most surprisingly is that this food is really expensive, as you have to buy $10 for a small menu at McDonalds, or $6.50 for a coffee, just like Starbucks one's.