Best Restaurants & Bars for Vivid Sydney

by OpenTable Australia

Updated June 11, 2022

Looking for the best way to enjoy this year's Vivid Sydney? From Vivid-inspired menu to the best spot to enjoy the lights with amazing food and cocktails. Check out some of our favourite dining experiences for Vivid Sydney this year.

Mode Kitchen & Bar

4.4

4.4 (529)

$40 and under

Breakfast

The Rocks

About the restaurant

Mode Kitchen & Bar continues to perfect modern Australian cuisine embracing different cultural influences creating uncomplicated menu with delicious flavours. A modern Australian restaurant offering breakfast, lunch, aperitivo and dinner.

Top review

Alan

Dined on Oct 6, 2024

Outstanding food wine and service from all the staff. Birthday occasion was made to very welcome and special.

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Squire’s Waterfront Restaurant

4.2

4.2 (1444)

$41 to $100

Modern Australian

Sydney CBD

About the restaurant

Squires Waterfront Restaurant is THE spot for a night out, a special occasion, or a casual hang with mates. Our menus marry unique modern Australian flavours, with inspiration from the legend himself, James Squire. Nestled on the Sydney Harbour, the waterfront views certainly enhance the ambiance of Squire's Waterfront Restaurant.

Bookings are available for the Restaurant. If you have 8 or more guests, a set menu and 10% gratuity apply. For non-exclusive parties of 8+ please enquire through our website. for our Brewhouse and Forecourt areas please contact our events team on 8014 5663

10% surcharge applies on Sundays. 15% surcharge applies on public holidays.
All Minors must be accompanied by a legal guardian or parent at all times across the whole venue.

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Dale

Dined 3 days ago

Fabulous experience, love it every time we come up from Melbourne

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Experience

Captain's Window Experience for 4

Experience

First Mates Addition Menu

Experience

Melbourne Cup Restaurant experience 2024

The Dining Room by James Viles

4.4

4.4 (866)

$101 and over

Modern Australian

Sydney CBD

About the restaurant

Located right on the edge of Sydney Harbour with the Opera House just beyond your fingertips…it doesn’t get any more Sydney than The Dining Room.

Our produce-driven menu is paired back, sustainable and unmistakably Australian, and shares center stage with unrivalled harbour views. Relaxed and elegant, enjoy the freshest of
seafood, seasonal Australian ingredients, and a selection of fine wines and locally crafted beers and spirits.

Lunch and dinner reservations are highly recommended. Our popular window tables are available at a surcharge when booking and subject to availability. Dress code is smart casual.

Top review

BigJ

Dined on Feb 23, 2024

Experience was generally quite good. Couples should be placed away from family and group tables. We were place inboard having to look over groups commanding the best view. This was despite the groups spending more time inwardly focused with conversation. Being inboard takes away from the ambience and experience. More considered and thoughtful table placement for a couple would have been appreciated. The restaurant had quite a few children in it, which took away from us as a couple having a child free moment. Decor and environment is tasteful and as you would expect for a Hyatt.

The Living Room, Park Hyatt Sydney

4.3

4.3 (212)

$41 to $100

Modern Australian

The Rocks

About the restaurant

A complement to Park Hyatt Sydney's signature restaurant The Dining Room, the stylish and glass-walled Living Room and Bar is the restaurant’s all-day dining option ideal for casual meals, coffee and cocktails.

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MiguelZ

Dined on Feb 10, 2024

It was OK but we expeted much more, still would visit again

Hurricane's Grill - Circular Quay

4.2

4.2 (580)

$41 to $100

Steakhouse

Australia

About the restaurant

Hurricane’s Grill Circular Quay is a modern, fresh and relaxed steakhouse situated in the Gateway building, located at Sydney’s iconic Circular Quay. Business lunches or catch up dinner it’s the perfect place to meet and greet and make an impression that won’t disappoint. Famous for our delicious Ribs and Steaks Hurricane’s Grill continues to be an Australian favourite with all who dine.

Please note: Additional 10% surcharge on Sunday’s and Public Holidays. Additional 1.5% surcharge for AMEX transactions. Cakage: $3 p.p. (capped at $30).

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OpenTable Diner

Dined on Jan 1, 2023

Absolutely fresh & delicious and amazing service all round

Helm Bar & Bistro

4.3

4.3 (269)

$40 and under

Gastro Pub

Sydney CBD

About the restaurant

Helm Bar and Bistro and the Cockle Bay Yacht Club is Darling Harbour’s best roof top and open air bars to enjoy delicious, fresh food and mouth-watering cocktails whilst soaking up our stunning harbour views that really are second to none.

We have an impressive capacity of 600 people meaning we can cater to groups of all sizes. We are highly experienced in organising an array of memorable events including birthdays, engagements, farewells, corporate events and many more.

You now have the choice of dining in our brand new venue Cockle Bay Yacht Club situated on the ground floor next door to Helm Bar and Bistro.
Minors must be accompanied by their parent or a legal guardian.

Our food is made fresh and each dish is sent to the table when ready, this does mean that at certain times that all dishes will arrive at the table at different times.

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Zoey

Dined on Aug 6, 2022

Such a nice view, the cocktails were pretty good, the food was yummy. A really nice spot to have some lunch and drinks on a sunny day!

love.fish - Barangaroo

4.5

4.5 (1772)

$41 to $100

Seafood

Barangaroo

About the restaurant

How many restaurants offer premium Australian seafood and waterfront dining at an everyday price point? love.fish is a casual Australian seafood restaurant located on the waterfront in harbour-side Sydney. Now in its thirteenth year, the love.fish Barangaroo restaurant takes Sydney seafood and our founders passion for authentic, accessible seafood dining to the next level. With a 17 metre harbour frontage and 175 seats, we offer a wider selection of Australia’s best locally-sourced oysters, raw fish, whole fish, platters, and crustaceans. All in a world-class waterfront location with the soul and values of a family owned restaurant. Our Barangaroo restaurant offers the provenance and quality of Australian seafood in a relaxed waterfront setting. We’re all about sustainable, local seafood that doesn’t cost the earth, because it doesn’t need to!

Top review

Sue

Dined 4 days ago

A great lunch venue for a get together. The food & service were excellent.

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Popular dish

Australian Seafood Platter

Popular dish

Flash Fried Brussel Sprouts

Experience

'FEED ME' menu at love.fish

BORN by Tapavino - Barangaroo

4.4

4.4 (1295)

$40 and under

Spanish

Barangaroo

About the restaurant

BóRN is the 3rd venue in the Tapavino stable and takes its cue from the tapas bars & restaurants in & around El Born, Barcelona. Located on the waterfront in Barangaroo, We take inspiration from the Spanish classics but with a modern twist.

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Larissa

Dined 2 days ago

Everything was perfect! I loved the food specially the octopus

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Experience

Bottomless Brunch $99

Experience

Melbourne Cup 2024

Kinhboy

4.8

4.8 (146)

$41 to $100

Vietnamese

Barangaroo

About the restaurant

Vietnamese with attitude. Authentic flavours with locally sourced ingredients. Great Cocktails, Asian Beers & and extensive Wine List.

Top review

JayY

Dined on Jul 25, 2024

This is the 2nd time we have had the Feed Me menu for $69 per person which has an abundance of mouthwatering deliciousness on every single plate . Definitely does not disappoint. Such great value for money. Unfortunately due to rent increase, we were told that they were closing down and Saturday is the last day. So sad. So get there asap!!

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