The Top 100 Restaurants Near Bar Lina
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Rank 1. Bar Lina
Modern Australian
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Art deco prints on the walls, Nina Simone on the speakers, and fresh pasta rolled every morning: Restaurant Santino is a laneway Italian bistro in central Wollongong that holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat. The rotating pasta menu means regulars have an excuse to keep coming back, and the Amaro list and cellar wine selection suggest the kitchen isn't the only thing taken seriously here.
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Rank 3. K.malu Kitchen and Bar
Modern Australian
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Rank 4. Ruby's Mount Kembla
Modern Australian
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Rank 6. SOUTH on Albany
Modern Australian
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Rank 7. Fior
Modern Australian
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Rank 8. Bangalay Dining
Modern Australian
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Rank 9. Eschalot
Modern Australian
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Rank 10. Newmarket Room
Modern Australian
The dining room at this Warwick Farm restaurant sits inside the Inglis bloodstock complex, and the horse-world setting is not subtle. It's a Modern Australian restaurant where the alfresco terrace looks out over riverside stables, which makes for a more distinctive backdrop than most. The menu runs to butter-poached lobster and pressed lamb shoulder, and the cocktail list takes itself seriously enough to earn its own paragraph in the menu.
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Rank 11. Saint Peter
Modern Australian
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Rank 12. Sixpenny
Modern Australian
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Rank 14. Vineria Luisa
Italian
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Rank 15. Maiz Mexican Food
Mexican
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Rank 16. Firepop
Modern Australian
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Rank 17. Sella Vinoteca
Italian
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Rank 18. Osteria Mucca
Italian
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Rank 19. Aalia
Middle Eastern
Open-fire Middle Eastern cooking in the Sydney CBD, where ironbark wood and charcoal from the Blue Mountains do the structural work rather than playing atmosphere. The kitchen pulls from Levantine and North African tradition, including medieval Arabic manuscripts, and the debt shows in the layering of spice rather than any museum-piece earnestness. It landed at number 14 on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, though it behaves nothing like a steakhouse.
- World's 101 Best #14 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 15/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 20. ANTE
Modern Australian
- Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Restaurant Bar
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Rank 21. Cafe Paci
Modern Australian
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Rank 22. Mimi's
Modern Australian
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Rank 23. Osteria Coogee
Italian
A neighbourhood Italian osteria a short walk from Coogee Beach, where house-made pasta and focaccia share the menu with fire-grilled octopus and the kind of seasonal specials that give regulars an excuse to come back. The room leans into trailing ferns and cane pendants, which sounds like a lot but somehow settles into somewhere easy to stay for a long lunch. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 24. Gran Torino
Italian
Neil Perry's Italian restaurant in Double Bay is built around the aperitivo rhythm: Martinis and spritzes arrive first, then antipasti, housemade pasta, seafood, and steak. The beef program leans into rare Australian breeds, including grass-fed Chianina, cooked simply enough that the sourcing does the talking. Ranked 27th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, though the room reads more like a generous Italian trattoria than a temple to beef.
- World's 101 Best #27 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 26. Fontana
Italian
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Rank 27. Attenzione Food & Wine
Italian
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Rank 28. Abhi's
Indian
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Rank 30. Nel Restaurant
Modern Australian
Fine dining that occasionally serves fried chicken and doughnuts without any apparent shame. Nel runs a rotating 11-course degustation in a moody CBD room of exposed brick and open kitchen, where the theme changes entirely and regulars come back to see what the kitchen has cooked up next. The format is unmistakably tasting-menu serious; the attitude is something else. Three Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide.
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Rank 31. Kindred
Italian
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Rank 33. R by Raita Noda.
Japanese
An open kitchen doubles as a stage at this omakase and theater dining restaurant in Redfern, where two chefs work in near-silence while guests sit close enough to hear the knife. The rain-inspired interior tilts quiet and contemplative, which sets the right mood for a meal built around precision and patience. Chef Raita Noda has been running omakase in Sydney for years, and this is his latest, most considered room.
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Rank 34. Wagyuto
Japanese
The restaurant takes its name from the Japanese word for a Western chef's knife, which tells you something about where this place sits, one foot in Japanese tradition, the other in the cooking-obsessed Sydney dining scene. It's a considered, sit-down Japanese restaurant in sleepy Clovelly, and the kitchen leans hard on local produce while keeping the cooking precise and unfussy. The kind of room where people are there to eat, not to be seen.
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Rank 35. White Horse
Modern Australian
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A Victorian terrace on Glebe Point Road that was once a private investigator's office, which may explain why the atmosphere feels like it has something to hide. It's a wine bar and restaurant loosely inspired by Mexican flavours, though the menu roams freely: dry-aged sirloin, barramundi, tres leches cake. Whitewashed walls and open fireplaces keep things easy, and the Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 37. Gildas
Spanish
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Rank 38. ARIA Sydney
Modern Australian
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Rank 39. Chez Beckett's
Modern French
Softly lit and tucked into Chippendale's Kensington Street, Chez Beckett's is a modern French bistro where the industrial bones of the building meet white-tablecloth formality without feeling stuffy. The menu leans into the classics, escargots, tartare, duck, done with Australian seasonal produce threaded through. The wine list is curated and the cocktails are genuinely considered, which the after-work crowd in the corner seems to have figured out already.
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Rank 40. Allta
Korean
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Rank 41. SOUL Dining
Korean
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Rank 42. arthur
Modern Australian
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Rank 43. The Blue Door
Modern Australian
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Rank 44. Bastardo
Italian
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Rank 45. LuMi Bar & Dining
Italian
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Rank 46. Nour
Lebanese
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Rank 47. Armorica
French
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Rank 48. Ito Restaurant
Japanese
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Rank 49. Jane
Modern Australian
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Rank 50. Haco
Japanese
Charcoal grilling and tempura in the same omakase menu sounds like a contradiction until you sit at the counter and watch the chef make it feel inevitable. Haco is a compact Japanese fine dining room in the Sydney CBD, built around a single tasting progression you watch unfold in front of you. The name means theatre in Japanese, which the room leans into without apology. It holds two Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide.
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Rank 51. Atelier By Sofitel
French
South of France cooking in a Darling Harbour hotel, with wine racks lining the walls and a menu that leans on local produce shaped into something unmistakably French. The kitchen uses coal and char alongside classical technique, so there's smoke and richness alongside the bright, coastal flavors you'd expect. A polished, unhurried kind of dinner, the sort where you dress up a little and nobody feels self-conscious about it. The Australian Good Food Guide awards it two Chef Hats.
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A Surry Hills spot where Australian and Asian cooking get folded into each other in ways that feel less like fusion and more like a genuine point of view. The menu shifts familiar territory into something harder to categorize, which is either exciting or unsettling depending on your mood. The room is small enough that the kitchen's curiosity feels personal. It holds a Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide.
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Rank 55. Civico 47
Italian
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Rank 56. Bar Copains
Modern Australian
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Rank 57. Bessie's & Alma's
Modern Australian
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Rank 58. Restaurant Ka
Modern Australian
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Rank 59. Shaffa
Middle Eastern
Sandwiched between two heritage sandstone buildings down a Surry Hills laneway, Shaffa is a Middle Eastern restaurant and bar built around shared plates and a deliberately festive mood. The space pulls from the energy of a bazaar, all bold spices and low lighting, and it suits a long table of friends more than a quiet Tuesday. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 60. Prefecture 48
Japanese
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Rank 61. Restaurant Garaku
Japanese
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Rank 62. Ennui
Modern Australian
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Rank 63. Yoshii’s Omakase
Japanese
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Rank 65. Kuro Bar & Dining
Japanese
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Rank 66. PELLEGRINO 2000
Italian
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Rank 67. Nomad Sydney
Middle Eastern
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Rank 69. Yellow
Vegetarian
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Rank 70. Fred's
Modern Australian
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Rank 71. Amuro
Japanese
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Rank 72. 10 William Street
Italian
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Rank 73. Porcine
French
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Rank 75. BTWN
Modern New American
Darling Harbour views frame every table at this theatrical modern Australian share-plates restaurant inside W Sydney. The menu leans on local growers and coastal producers, with wild-caught seafood making a strong case for itself as the room fills and the energy climbs toward something noticeably louder than dinner. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 76. Sokyo
Japanese
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Rank 77. Ursula's Paddington
Australian New American
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Rank 78. Omakase by Prefecture 48
Modern Australian
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Rank 79. Ibushi Robata Grill
Japanese
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Rank 81. Bennelong
Modern Australian
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Rank 83. Franca Brasserie
Mediterranean
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Rank 84. Takam
Filipino
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Rank 85. Kiln
Modern Australian
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Rank 86. Palazzo Salato
Italian
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Rank 87. Sydney Common
Modern Australian
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Rank 88. Matkim
Korean
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Rank 89. Clarence and V
Modern Australian
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Rank 90. Esteban
Mexican
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Rank 91. Lana
Italian
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Rank 92. Infinity at Sydney Tower
Modern Australian
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Rank 93. Sala
Italian
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Rank 96. Viand
Thai
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Rank 97. The Charles
French
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A neon-lit basement off York Street designed to feel like a gambling den, which sets the mood pretty squarely. Hustlers. Syd is a shared-plates Asian restaurant built for late nights, with a menu that roams across the continent and a cocktail list that keeps pace. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat. Come with people you like sharing with, and don't schedule anything early the next morning.
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Rank 99. Figo Restaurant & Bar
Italian
Velvet booths, wine racks floor to ceiling, and exposed concrete that somehow pulls it all together: Figo is an Italian restaurant and cocktail bar in Rushcutters Bay doing the kind of old-school Roman trattoria thing Sydney never tires of. Pappardelle with osso buco ragu is the move, and the tiramisu arrives exactly as it should. A One Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide keeps the regulars feeling quietly smug about their standing reservation.
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Rank 100. Eleven Barrack
Modern Australian