The Top 7 Restaurants Near The Gidley
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Rank 2. Aalia
Middle Eastern
Aalia is a fire-led Middle Eastern restaurant in the CBD that's landed on the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants list, which tells you the grill work is serious even if it doesn't behave like a steakhouse. Ironbark and charcoal do the heavy lifting, layering smoke into Levantine and North African flavours with real control. The crowd is polished but curious, the kind willing to trust the kitchen, which is exactly what you should do.
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A serious steakhouse tucked into the sandstone of The Rocks, where the heritage building does half the work before the food even arrives. The kitchen runs a wood-fired grill with real commitment, aging Australian beef until it actually means something. The crowd skews toward long lunches and occasion dinners, people who know what they want and order confidently. It landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which tracks.
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Rank 7. Gran Torino
Steakhouse Italian
Neil Perry's Italian steakhouse in Double Bay is the kind of place where the beef program is genuinely serious, think rare Chianina and Speckle Park cuts you won't find many places in Australia, but the pasta is good enough to make you reconsider your priorities. The room runs on aperitivo energy, spritzes and Martinis, antipasti doing the rounds, and a crowd that's dressed up just enough to mean it.