"Discover. Savour. Enjoy". The Greengate's Portico restaurant is a favourite for many clientele…read morealong the North Shore. Situated towards the back of the Greengate Hotel, Portico offers excellent food in a relaxed environment. As an award winning restaurant, Portico books up fast and for a reason. Much more than your average pub grub, Portico boasts succulent Pork Belly, seafood dumplings and plenty more! The staff are friendly and attentive and the food fresh and flavoursome. Portico is great for birthdays and group bookings, but must be booked up early in order to secure a good spot. There is inside and outdoor seating, with heaters available in Winter. We were extra cold one evening- the waitress even provided lap rugs for us! It's always great when someone goes the extra mile to provide top customer service. In summary, Portico is one of our favourite family restaurants and has been for decades! I recommend the following: - Pork Belly - Scallops - Garlic Prawns Hot Pot - Barramundi - Duck Pancakes Everything on the menu is delectable- you can't go wrong at Portico!

I'm going to cut straight to the point, the service is patchy, the decor shabby and the cramped…read moreoutdoor seating can be annoying. The cafe interior could do with a spruce up, even the menus are dog-earned and don;t get me started on the toilet! This well loved cafe would benefit from a refurbishment and a bit of TLC. But I keep coming back to Le Cafe Q for the salads. They are huge! My favourite is the Medterean chicken with sundried tomatoes and goats cheese. There's also a lamb and cous cous salad that is good. The menu also features all the usual sandwiches, wraps and burgers and an all day breakfast menu. With a bit of love this place could be kicking major goals, for now its an ok cafe with a great view.

Stepping into Le Café Q is like stepping into an old-timey French village. Not having a Delorean of…read morecourse, I have never been to an old-timey French village but I'm pretty sure there are still plenty of charming little cafes like this one peppered around the French countryside... From the pretty wildflowers in vases, bottles around the walls and cushions scattered around the room to the blue & white striped awning, Le Café Q is a comforting haven among the whiteness that many of the Bronte Rd cafes are adopting. Take shelter here in any season and enjoy the friendly ambience and a great coffee.

Taste on sussex used to be my go to place for the most delicious mocha ever as it involved melted…read morechocolate. For my ex colleagues , the lure was the range of baguettes. However two years later, all this luxury is gone. Perhaps barangaroo with its dazzling new cafes is to blame as well as the migration of business offices to schnazzy new ones. I came here for brunch on my day out in Sydney telling my fellow travel companions that the hot chocolate and mocha here were to die for. The take away menu advertised smoked salmon scrambled eggs for 6.50 so I was quite excited that Sydney had maintained its low prices in comparison to Melbourne. However the dine in menu was completely different and my smoked salmon eggs Benedict on crusty stale baguette (half a baguette mind you) was 17.50. Ermagerd. The melted chocolate was gone and our waitress could barely speak English. The eggs Benedict were average. Service poor. And price disappointing. Old is not gold people!

Taste on Sussex Lane is six food options in one including a restaurant, cafe, takeaway, bistro, bar…read moreand bakery. It has lots of space and high roofs although the restaurant area is the smallest space in this complex. The decor is Indochinese colonial with wooden chaises, turkish rugs, leather ottomans, colourful empty bird cages hanging from the high roof and overall there is a beautiful ambience which is assisted with the beautiful background music. My colleague and I sit in the cafe area because it looks comfortable, make our orders quickly and within 10 minutes we have our meals. My spanner crab linguine with parsley and lemon is fantastic, the linguine, nice firm pasta tubings. Dessert must be tried after that great start and I opt for a simple lemon tea cake and flat white. The lemon cake is wonderful and containes rind that does not have have too much tang. As we pay our bill we notice all the office workers queueing for their takeaway baguettes, its a busy and buzzing place with a selection of food for everyone. Beacause of its location it is ideal for corporates and international visitors.

Magnificent waterfront views, well-designed interiors, great food and awesome service - roll them…read moreinto one and you'll get a very nice dining experience. Restaurants with one or two things on the list are just typical so finding all those in one place is pure pleasure. And if it's pure pleasure you're looking for, I suggest you try Eleven Kitchen and Cellar in King Street Wharf. Eleven Kitchen and Cellar is a lovely restaurant in a premier waterfront location. The venue is really neat and sophisticated, perfect for business lunches or romantic dinners. They offer great seafood dishes with fine European and Asian touch all over their plates. Eleven Kitchen and Cellar's wine selection is superb. Pass on the cocktails and make way for fine Australian or French wines when you dine at Eleven Kitchen and Cellar. Try it and you'll know why.

A very, very welcome addition to Marrickville. It's a pub you actually want to spend time in!…read more They've done a good job with the layout. It's large, spacious, very open-feeling. There are stools at high tables, lower ones for small and large groups, and lounge-y low chairs and tables in the back if you want a bit more seclusion. Everything's still very new and clean, and is a mix of industrial/shabby-chic (think old luggage trunks for tables, glued-together Jenga blocks for menu holders, and tin buckets for your cutlery). Parts of it seem almost trying a bit too hard to be funky, but it's not overbearing. The food is mostly familiar pub items (schnitzel, burger, fish and chips) but with a few nice additions. The pulled pork roll is excellent. And their chips are delicious across the board, with lots of rosemary salt making them a cut above the average. They have lunch specials. They often have live music in the evenings. Their wine menu is small but better than pub average (Mudgee barbera, anyone? Yes please!). The only thing I find a bit annoying is that they have segregated counter areas for ordering food and drinks. I'm kinda disappointed to be leaving Marrickville now that the Ritz is here.

New! It must be a brand new pub. There was never a pub here before…read more.. Turns out, after some research, that the Ritz holds the license from the old owners of the Henson Park hotel. I was curious and It had to be looked up because they have a huge Pokie room here. Which, in our times, the license for is hard to get, let alone a license for a brand new pub. I liked the vibe. A two level pub, still under construction, there is an upstairs area that I snuck a look at. Perhaps a restaurant upstairs soon, and it's own rooftop parking. A good idea considering the traffic will probably spill over into local residential areas otherwise. Marrickville council staff had booked out the entire front section for their Xmas party, truth be told. ( Had me wondering about all the approvals and red tape, just for a laugh...) They were partying hard to the live music act, which sounded good up the front, but the speakers in the back eating area, did no justice to the sound. Volume was wrong. Could do with a better ambient sound system to even out the chat/music ratio. The decor I found to be pretty naff. The big light bulb lit "RITZ" looks cool from the street, but inside, the mix of old barrels which were really awkward to try and eat food on, to the old cable spool, smaller round tables seemed mismatched to the brand new tiling and the pre-print "vintage newspaper" wallpaper. Along with an attempt at rustic, with a mix of old lounge chairs and stuff that looked like it was picked up at council clean up, and brand new upholstered chaise style lounges, to me it was having a bit of an identity crisis. Down to the grit, the food here is really good. I had the Pumpkin and goats cheese Ravioli with some guilty pleasure, Butter and Walnut sauce. The Burger is also pretty tasty. Although I think some places do not understand the need for an actual plate when you order a burger, and that those wooden boards do not work. They have a good selection of Salad choices too. I was torn between a pulled pork roll and the Prawn and chorizo salad or the pasta. In the end I flipped a coin between the pork and the ravioli. I just couldn't choose. Thanks to "heads" I was pretty happy with my meal. They have some really good Wine choices, for a reasonable by the glass price. Beer on tap included Fat Yak. Cool for over 30s crowd. Was pretty packed for a Friday night. Parking is currently hard to get. A good edition to an ever gentrified Marrickville.

After a disastrous start, and offensive treatment by one of the waiter girls resulting in us…read moreleaving, the manager stepped up and saved the evening with his kindness and adequacy. Dedes is a very nice place, at the waterfront, with great views and comfortable cozy setting. The food was great minus one colder than lukewarm side dish, and service (after the aforementioned start) was good. All in all a recommend if you're in Sydney and want to eat outside by the waterfront away from happy hour tourism -- the pier area is nice for a stroll afterwards as well. (The seating indoor is not as great)

Best place in Sydney? Under the Harbor Bridge, across from the Marriott Autograph, you get a…read morecomfortable, fresh, view of water, Luna Park, and the Sydney Harbor Bridge, all a short walk into real Sydney. All that would be enough, but the service and menu, the great wine and fresh food make this the next hottest spot. Great people watching who jog from the surrounding neighborhood. Ask for Danny and make your stop the best one in Sydney.

Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with this particular pub, but then again I suspect that this…read moreparticular pub is probably not trying to appeal to people like me. I guess it is because I found it to be a little fancier than what I tend to appreciate when it comes to such place. Okay, the service was nice, but really, when it came to the atmosphere, it honestly wasn't all that great. Since there are some rather decent pubs in and around North Sydney, this is a place I'd certainly pass by in the future.

Had a nice lunch here. It does get very busy - it appears…read moreto start at 12pm on the dot! So if you can start lunch earlier I'd recommend it. We had a table of 12 seated in front of us (we were 2) so it was quite loud. Menu is limited - I had the steak sandwich and my friend had the roasted pumpkin and chicken salad. Steak sandwich was good - a lot of bread but a nice amount of steak too. Lots of onions, so make sure you grab a mint on your way out! Not a cheap lunch but it's nice to sit down - I can see why it's a good place for a business lunch. I sat inside, but if I returned I'd have a glass on wine on the patio outside. Would recommend and will return.

This great place is in the heart of the city of Sydney! The staff was wonderful and attentive. The…read morefood was delicious and the drinks were tasty!

I love the coffee here and the staff here is always lively and friendly. I have also heard from my…read moreco-workers that their soup + toast (from lunch menu) is to die for. Two thumbs up!