Sydney Restaurant Tips by iandsmith

Restaurant Name: Northern Suburbs Restaurants

Upstairs/downstairs - there's a world of difference between the two. On top you'll want to make sure your credit card isn't near its limit, downstairs is your basic fish and chips with a salad on the side and make sure you keep brushing the flies away on a summer afternoon.
Still, the ambience is hard to beat. Water lapping the quayside and an array of boat styles in the foreground playing to a backdrop of sandstone cliffs and gum trees.

Favorite Dish: Let's be honest, the food downstairs was basic. Nothing to write home about but it did fill my stomach.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: Cuneo Cafe and Restaurant

Hunters Hill is one of my favourite Sydney suburbs. The splendid sandstone buildings of yesteryear have not been torn down. Nay, in some cases they have been embellished and the "Hill" sits on a peninsula jutting into the western reaches of the harbour. It truly is a lovely place and both this restaurant and the one immediately across the road have a history attached.
This place was actually an old butcher's shop but that mode is totally unrecognizable today and the daddo boards beneath the historical photos on the walls lend an air to this place that we all found immensely satisfying.

Favorite Dish: Of the four dishes we tried, the overwhelming favourite was the angel hair pasta; which is not to say that the rest were poor, just that this one stood out.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: 9879 4204
Address: 35 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill
Directions: North west of the CBD on the other side of the harbour.

Restaurant Name: Doyle's Restaurant

This is where I got religion. I'm now a practicising decadent. Of course, you have to have money for this and, though I'm a long way from being loaded as they say, I don't mind the occasional indulgence.
Doyle's is unquestionably Australia's best known restaurant. Others may try and lay claim but, when you've got 122 years of history behind you (as at the time of writing) and you're still going strong, it's a safe bet that you're doing something right.
That something is seafood. Nestled beside a protected beach in the inner harbour of Sydney, people would come here for the views alone, so the food is almost a bonus. But, what a bonus. This is seafood as it was meant to be served up. I'm salivating as I write just thinking about my mixed meal of scallops, prawns, salmon and fish fillets while casting glances across at Rosemarie's choice of John Dory, one of the finer eating fish found in Australian waters.
They have an extensive quality wine list to go with the food so connoiseurs will be well catered for in that department also.
Cheap is not a word used here so you can expect around $35 to $40 per main but I would have no qualms about returning.
As a bonus, you get a ferry trip across the harbour to get there. On a warm spring day, life doesn't get any better.

Favorite Dish: I can honestly say that just about anything you order will have you drooling though I will lean on this occasion to the John Dory fillets that Rosemarie had and I shared. Fish as it was meant to be served.

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Theme: Seafood
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$31-40  » Currency Converter
Address: Watsons Bay by the pier