The Best French Food in Sydney
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The best French food in Sydney, according to the experts: Australian Good Food Guide, The Infatuation, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Restaurant Hubert comes out on top.
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Atelier By Sofitel and Armorica hold the next two places. Australian Good Food Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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Rank 1. Restaurant Hubert
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 31 Best Places To Eat & Stay In Sydney
- Australian Good Food Guide 13/20 · One Chef Hat
- The Infatuation The 31 Best Places To Eat & Stay In Sydney
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Rank 2. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 3. Armorica
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. Berts
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. Bistro Rex
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. L'Heritage
French
A converted Navy drill hall on a Mosman wharf, with national park on one side and harbour on the other, is doing a lot of the heavy lifting before the food even arrives. L'Heritage is a French bistro and brasserie that leans into the classics, escargot, beef tartare, duck à l'orange, dry-aged steak, cooked with Australian produce and served without the stiffness those dishes sometimes attract. The setting alone tends to silence the table.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. Loulou Bistro
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. Porcine
French
Red and white plates, chalkboard menus on burgundy walls, tables worn to a comfortable shine: this Paddington bistro is doing its level best to make Oxford Street feel like the Marais. The menu takes the same unapologetic stance, running pâté en croûte and vol-au-vent alongside veal Rossini with foie gras and truffle. No reinvention, no apology. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 3. Quoi Dining
Modern French
A lakeside dining room tucked beside Norwest Lake in the Hills District, Quoi Dining runs a modern French menu with Australian produce woven through it. The setting is quiet enough that conversation doesn't compete with anything, which suits the careful, technique-forward cooking. It's a fine-dining room that draws the special-occasion crowd, and the Australian Good Food Guide has given it a Chef Hat.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. S’more
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 3. The Charles
French
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat