Surry Hills

What makes Surry Hills so great? It's a melting pot of Sydney's best cultural clichés - ironic-bogans attend gallery openings with hipster coffee-brewers and art-wankers frequent cafes with boutique-tradies. It may sound pretentious, but Surry Hills is your carefully considered, well-styled friend who can be a little rough around the edges, but somehow oozes a cool that you'll always aspire to. Whether it's meeting with someone to discuss their screenplay at an alleyway coffee shop, or grabbing an artisanal whiskey at a hole-in-the-wall bar, Surry Hills is a place to spend a lazy weekend filling your Instagram with aesthetically pleasing shots to brag about. Plan all you want, but any local will tell you that Surry is best experienced with only a vague idea of where you’re headed - leaving yourself enough space to stumble across that new gallery, or that awesome pub on the corner. So roll up your chinos, and get stumbling.

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Nomad

Address
16 Foster Street
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Nomad has a great logo (just saying). Ok that's the design review out of the way. A place to impress, they serve up a Middle Eastern-influenced set of deliciousness, in a sleek exposed brick, high ceiling, concrete floored warehouse at the hands of Head Chef Nathan Stasi (from Heston Blumenthal's Dinner in London). Owned by Rebecca Littlemore and Al Yazbek, the place has a focus on 'house made' with as much as possible of their menu produced on site. They have a huge array of pickled, fermented cured, and smoked ingredients that all end up on your plate. The entire menu is designed to share, so don't go solo and randomly rock up, even if the name might suggest it. Booze has a local focus – all Australian wines and local craft beers. The 65$ a head set menu is a good option if you want to sample all the things.

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