haymarket

Royal Palace Seafood Restaurant

Restaurant

In the old Golden Century site, this 400-seat Cantonese diner is ushering in a new era for Chinatown. The seafood tanks are full, the yum cha trolleys are back in action and late-night dining runs until 3am.

Porkfat

Restaurant

A Long Chim alumnus is behind this 30-seat Chinatown restaurant, where you’ll find punchy takes on classic Thai street food and home-style cooking. Think deep-fried barramundi with mango salad, Phuket-style curry with tiger prawns and betel leaves, and a refreshing coconut ice-cream with roasted peanuts and candied pumpkin.

Ho Jiak Haymarket

Restaurant

Char kway teow noodles with jumbo prawns, Hainan chicken rice and a signature wok-fried crab are the highlights at Junda Khoo’s nostalgic Malaysian diner.

City Oltra

Restaurant

Two gun pizzaiolos have teamed up with inner-west distillery Poor Toms to create the ultimate inner-city hangout – with not-quite-New York pizzas, chunky square pies, plates of gabagool and a riff on a legendary Perth sandwich. But it’s here for a good time, not a long time.

Chat Thai Haymarket

Restaurant

A trailblazer in Sydney’s Thai restaurant scene. When the late, great Amy Chanta opened it in Darlinghurst in 1989, it brought Bankgok flavours that were then-unknown to Sydney diners. The Thai street food here is fine-dining quality, served at very reasonable price points. Today, it’s a super-popular chain with stores all over Sydney.

Dodee Paidang Haymarket

Restaurant

Thai food that pulls no punches.

Dopa Donburi and Milk Bar

Cafe

A former Zumbo pastry chef is behind the elaborate desserts at this Japanese cafe and milk bar by the Devon team. It’s one of the few places in Sydney you’ll find popular Japanese date-night dessert, Kakigori, along with cheeseburger-inspired rice bowls, curries and more.

Edition Coffee Roasters Haymarket

Cafe

Traditional Japanese mountain houses were the inspiration behind Edition’s flagship cafe. Enter this astounding space for fine-dining level breakfasts fusing Scandi and Japanese flavours, and some of the best coffee in Sydney.

Dulcet Cakes and Sweets Haymarket

Cafe

Subtly sweet French pastry with an Asian flair.

Matcha-Ya

Cafe

A Japanese matcha house with curries, sundaes, lattes and more, made with powder from the mountains of Shizuoka.

Kusuka

Cafe

A cafe with a dual identity: Western cafe staples plus Indonesian mee goreng and coffee.

Banchō

Bar

A flash cocktail bar in a dingy Chinatown alley that comes with fried things on sticks, including … spaghetti.

Kakigori Kaiji

Shop

Kakigori Kaiji is Sydney’s first shop dedicated to the iconic dessert – but it’s also the first to use Kuramoto Ice, a tasteless, slow-melting ice from Kanazawa in Japan.