Food beyond the CBD: where Sydney really eats
Sydney's most interesting food culture has long lived in the suburbs. A short tour of the kinds of places worth writing about.
A plate of food at a suburban Sydney restaurant
If you only read about Sydney food from the CBD, you miss most of it. The basin's most distinctive eating has long happened in suburban high streets and community-anchored kitchens.
There are the long-running family restaurants that have defined a suburb for decades. There are the newer rooms that draw on the cooking traditions of migrant communities. There are the bakeries, butchers and grocers that make a strip worth visiting on a weekend.
Good food coverage gives these places room. It treats them as part of how a city actually feeds itself, not as exotic side trips from the CBD.
Our Food & Drink section will be weighted that way: many small dispatches from the suburbs, fewer big set pieces from the centre.
From the desk. Sydney and Surrounds is a practical local newsroom for Greater Sydney. If there is something in your suburb that deserves more attention, we would like to hear about it.
