Book Now: First Events Revealed for Dine Out, Broadsheet's Debut Food Festival
If you missed it, Broadsheet is launching a flash new annual food festival. Dine Out is the week-long, city-wide celebration of Sydney’s dining scene – and it’s going to be big.
In partnership with Mastercard and Square, we’re staging 40 events across the city, featuring Sydney’s best chefs, restaurants, bars, bakeries and more. There’ll be restaurant swaps, left-field collabs and special menus worth crossing town for. Our brightest hospo talents are getting ready to flex their passion and creativity.
Today we’re sharing the first round of venues and dishes – with more to come soon. All tickets are available at dineout.broadsheet.com.au.
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The starry Bar Planet is becoming The World’s Dirtiest Martini Bar for one night only – and you’re in charge. The team’s signature briny serve is ripe for the filthiest of garnishes: anchovies, chilli-stuffed olives and pickled onions are the start.
At Ama, the Hot-Listed Surry Hills joint, the Chansiri sisters are honouring the “lost dishes” of Thailand with week-long specials – that’s noodles for lunch and dessert. The cold, coconutty hard-to-find knom jeen sao nam is all zinged up with pineapple and house-made fermented rice noodles. Then there’s salim, the sweet, bright mung bean noodles topped with salted coconut milk, chestnut pearls and shredded young coconut.
In the CBD, Melbourne pasta institution Tipo 00 is jetting in for one night – and it’s a night not to miss. Executive chef Andreas Papadakis is flying up to join Alejandro Saravia in his Morena kitchen. The pair will cook through Italy and Argentina’s history, serving up pasta and asado aplenty. After a suitably Italo start there’ll be eggplant escabeche and a zesty crudo, then a share-style feast that includes a whopping veal Milanesa with chimichurri.
Then just around the corner is perhaps the shortest bar crawl in history: a back-to-back happy hour at Cantina OK and Herbs Taverne. Slide into the micro mezcal bar from 4pm for an hour of $14 Margs, then slink down the stairs for an hour of $14 Negronis and $7 house-made digestifs at Herbs. All week long.
The recently resurrected Freda’s dance floor’s already hot – and for Dine Out the team’s inviting its Pizza Oltra pals to party. Ben Fester will be firing up the Gozneys – with a free slice for everyone – then firing up the decks with his electronic mixes.
In Chatswood find the left-field collab we’ve been missing: northern Chinese meets the Anglo-Indian flavour of Derrel’s founder Brendy King. BYO favourite Derrel’s burst onto Parramatta Road with exceptional curries and a funky fit-out. The chef returns to the brief with The Lamb Lab’s Simon Jing (who’s behind the “super lamb soup” at Shang Lamb in Hurstville). Expect a one-off, all-day menu that brings it all together.
Tabasco is turning big Redfern boozer The Bat & Ball into a Creole tavern. As Southern funk plays there’ll be buck-a-shuck oysters, and Cam Votano’s pub grub’s getting spicy. There’ll be Nashville-style burgers with blueberry and fermented chilli, gumbo chicken parmies and a lasagne on the jambalaya train. Plus, Cajun crocodile po’ boys and shellfish boils.
Chips are getting stacked for an exclusive poker game in The Gidley’s secret poker room. First there’ll be a Balvenie whisky tasting in the bar, then a pro hosts your match. That juicy Gidley burger – which some think is the best in Australia – is your nightcap. Nearby in Barangaroo, NYC Chinatown knockout Chinese Tuxedo is cruising into Rekodo for three nights.
The accessory of the week is Pantry Story’s croissant handbag, which you can take to The Duke’s record fair where there’ll be $15 Bloody Marys to fuel the hunt. The Old Fitz is welcoming back the dish that glows in neon lights in the corner of the bistro: the laksa that’s a beloved part of the pub’s 150-year history.
A bunch of venues are putting on special drinks, dishes or entire menus for Dine Out: Yellow, Ricos Tacos, Tokyo Lamington, Kosta’s Takeaway, Wildflower, Good Ways Deli and Maybe Sammy. Plus, Danielle Alvarez is hosting a supper club.
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Broadsheet’s Dine Out festival debuts in Sydney, from August 11 to 17, 2025, after its run in Melbourne from August 4 to 10, 2025. There are 80 events across the two cities.
Ama
Bar Freda’s
Bar Planet
Cantina OK!
Chinese Tuxedo (NYC)
City Oltra
Continental Deli
Good Ways Deli
Herbs Taverne
Kosta’s Takeaway
Maybe Sammy
Morena
Pantry Story
Rekodo
Ricos Tacos
The Bat & Ball
The Duke
The Gidley
The Lamb Lab
The Old Fitz
Tipo 00 (Melbourne)
Tokyo Lamington
Wildflower
Yellow
