I like... museums, rad bars, delicious food, exercise/hiking, modern art, and... uhh... nature? Architecture?
Isn't Sydney at least as big as Singapore?
...oh, hm, I guess not.
Still! I bet there's fun things.
Hiking is pretty easy; Sydney is literally surrounded by national parks. Blue Mountains generally has the coolest views though. Recommend the walks around Katoomba, Leura and Wentworth Falls. In terms of beaches everyone knows about Bondi but Manly, Coogee, Maroubra and Cronulla beaches are also nice (as well as like twenty others in Sydney) and there's also the Central Coast.
In regards to delicious food, um, can you be more specific?
In regards to bars and restaurants and shops overall, Newtown and Surry Hills have heaps of cool bohemian stuff, there's some glitzy ones around Circular Quay and The Rocks and some generally awesome shit between Central and Wynyard overall including Chinatown.
Chatswood is now an Asian food borg cube of deliciousness, a terrifying yet beautiful apex of cuisine that threatens to swallow us whole. Can we swallow it first? Only you can help us.
I like... museums, rad bars, delicious food, exercise/hiking, modern art, and... uhh... nature? Architecture?
Isn't Sydney at least as big as Singapore?
...oh, hm, I guess not.
Still! I bet there's fun things.
I'm out at the moment but I've got a few good recommendations.
Unfortunately the best bar in Sydney and an almost perfect guarantor of a good time closed down a bit ago.
But there are some real lovely places, Sydney has a pretty good small bar scene, considering the circumstances.
Which bar was that bar?
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I have pretty wide parameters for foods that I enjoy! I don't need to eat Asian food, just because uhhh... it's everywhere around me... but on the flip side I love it a lot so I'm not anti eating it either.
This is the craziest thing I've ever said, I think, but I could go for a real solid hamburger. I haven't had one in months.
Is there... is there like, New Australian like there's New American cuisine?
Thanks y'all, I am very excited! Except for the work which I expect will be very stressful!
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I have pretty wide parameters for foods that I enjoy! I don't need to eat Asian food, just because uhhh... it's everywhere around me... but on the flip side I love it a lot so I'm not anti eating it either.
This is the craziest thing I've ever said, I think, but I could go for a real solid hamburger. I haven't had one in months.
Is there... is there like, New Australian like there's New American cuisine?
Thanks y'all, I am very excited! Except for the work which I expect will be very stressful!
It's pretty similar here to the US, where more modern Aussie cuisine is really just kind of a melting pot of all different fusions of flavour profiles and techniques.
Modern Australian food is everywhere (and one of my favorite cuisines) but it mostly found in cafes.
Your best bets for burgers are normally cafes and pubs, but there are also some great ones in the city, like the takeaway place that @Seguer introduced us to
Quoting directly from a friend so excuse the profanity
Baxters for whiskey
It's the 7th best ranked bar in the world
Worth it even if you don't like whiskey
Ivy if you want to club, or if you want coke.
The Newtown bars have the best 'bar' feel
Get into the townie or the courtie.
Stitch is also cool, but it's another whiskey bar, lots of ardbeg.
I like the Ramblin' Rascal.
It has a kind of speak easy vibe to it
Plus you can get Mary's burgers there
Their chicken burgers are the fuckin tits
I have pretty wide parameters for foods that I enjoy! I don't need to eat Asian food, just because uhhh... it's everywhere around me... but on the flip side I love it a lot so I'm not anti eating it either.
This is the craziest thing I've ever said, I think, but I could go for a real solid hamburger. I haven't had one in months.
Is there... is there like, New Australian like there's New American cuisine?
Thanks y'all, I am very excited! Except for the work which I expect will be very stressful!
Bar Luca.
I went there for lunch today and got one of these:
(They're not always that big, they have a different special burger each week as well as some regular ones.)
We're also open to any recommendations for nice things to do
What kind of nice things were you wanting to do?
If you want to see some art you could go to the Ian Potter Centre or ACMI, they both usually have some good free exhibitions going.
Having lunch in the botanical gardens would be pretty good too atm considering the current weather.
Lovely
We've got some museums and shopping in mind (as well as finding about 4 places to go for food already) but having some nice free or cheap activities to do would be great
This exhibition brings together presentations of work by a broad range of Indigenous women artists, whose practice is unbounded by convention. It includes bold statements that explore colour and assert the politics of identity. Customary woven objects and modern works will jostle in the same space, with digital, synthetic and organic materials alternating unexpectedly. The poetics of mourning will oscillate with paintings of wondrous joy and photographs that expose Indigenous disadvantage and repugnant instances of institutionalised racism.
Bonus: it's free.
Also you should check out That's Melbourne, which has a free events section. (Beware there's a lot to wade through as it even captures such incredible events as... Millionaire Hot Seat Studio Audience. )
I have pretty wide parameters for foods that I enjoy! I don't need to eat Asian food, just because uhhh... it's everywhere around me... but on the flip side I love it a lot so I'm not anti eating it either.
This is the craziest thing I've ever said, I think, but I could go for a real solid hamburger. I haven't had one in months.
Is there... is there like, New Australian like there's New American cuisine?
Thanks y'all, I am very excited! Except for the work which I expect will be very stressful!
Mary's, either the store front on Castlereagh or the unmarked pub in Newtown in the old Masonic hall.
Charlie & Co in the Westfield Sydney food court is pretty good too.
Or Burger Project in World Square.
There's a small cafe near my work called Livelo that do decent enough burgers but probably the greatest thick cut fries I've ever had.
Edit: God damn it @MrFuzzbutt I'm on a diet, I can't be finding out about these things.
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Oh man. You guys rule. And I've decided to go out to the blue mountains with my coworker on Sunday.
I don't know if I'll have any real free time apart from dinner, or how much the people I'll be with from work will want to do with me, AND I know it's leading up to Australia Day, but if anyone wants to meet up and isn't a murderer, it's possible that I'll have free time! (I am also not a murderer.)
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I'm attending a wedding in Gloucester on the 21st and certain surrounding days, but I should be free most of the time.
If you do want to experience more nature, the Sydney coastal walk is also incredibly beautiful. You don't have to do all of it, but anywhere between Coogee and Bondi is absolutely stunning.
We're also open to any recommendations for nice things to do
What kind of nice things were you wanting to do?
If you want to see some art you could go to the Ian Potter Centre or ACMI, they both usually have some good free exhibitions going.
Having lunch in the botanical gardens would be pretty good too atm considering the current weather.
Lovely
We've got some museums and shopping in mind (as well as finding about 4 places to go for food already) but having some nice free or cheap activities to do would be great
Being outdoors will also be real nice
Fitzroy Gardens is really nice, especially the Conservatory. And Cooks Cottage is interesting. It's also cheap as chips to get there by tram and into the cottage.
EDIT: it's actually free to get to Fitzroy Gardens if you get off the tram at stop 8 and walk the hundred or so metres from there. The free tram zone gets you around most of the shopping and eating in Melbourne CBD.
I like... museums, rad bars, delicious food, exercise/hiking, modern art, and... uhh... nature? Architecture?
Isn't Sydney at least as big as Singapore?
...oh, hm, I guess not.
Still! I bet there's fun things.
I'm out at the moment but I've got a few good recommendations.
Unfortunately the best bar in Sydney and an almost perfect guarantor of a good time closed down a bit ago.
But there are some real lovely places, Sydney has a pretty good small bar scene, considering the circumstances.
Which bar was that bar?
Ko & Co. The Korean and Mexican fusion bar that had amazing soju and some of the best fried chicken in Sydney.
Also the bartender was an incredibly friendly and charismatic dude.
I never heard of that bar.
My go to bars in Sydney CBD are Harts Pub (next to the rocks, good burgers and great beer selection) and Frankies Pizza By The Slice (looks like a pizza joint when you walk in, but go through the back doors and it's a rock/metal bar with also a great beer selection. Monday night is karaoke night with a live band). In Newtown I like The Union (again for beer and food).
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I have been very drunk in the inner city throughout my 20s but I've never once barfed. Not out of respect for it's fine streets, it's just never happened. Plenty of my friends have decked the halls tho
I am getting sudden memory stirrings of the HofBrauHouse and how merrily and gay I decorated the place. *shudder*
I was young and stupid. Well, younger and stupider.
In terms of nice Sydney places, King St Newtown is worth a visit. Oxford St is great too, but it's getting pretty gentrified these days.
Circular Quay is good for a visit, as is the Botanic gardens when it's not stinking hot. The Rocks is nice but obscenely overpriced and is a total tourist trap.
Don't bother crossing the Harbour bridge, unless you want to visit Manly Beach (Better and far less crowded than Bondi- forgive me @Lalabox). I may live up that way, but up here is snobby white privileged rich suburbia. Avoid like the plague unless you want to visit me..
The Saturday Glebe Point markets are far better than the Rocks markets, and imho are better than the Paddington markets and Glebe Pt Rd is a great walk to take through the inner city community.
Surrey Hills has good drinking places and good eating places.
I am not a murderer but I am a flake.
I work in town on a normalish schedule if we organise dinner one night?
I can't really do bars unless the doctor tells me it is okay again next week though.
If you walk pasta Gelato Messina and there isn't a huge queue grab something.
It is pretty good, overrated and not worth lining up the length of 3 stores, but pretty good (also it seemed to be reasonably priced but I can't remember).
I'm fond of The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst (bordering Surry Hills).
Don't bother crossing the Harbour bridge, unless you want to visit Manly Beach (Better and far less crowded than Bondi- forgive me @Lalabox). I may live up that way, but up here is snobby white privileged rich suburbia. Avoid like the plague unless you want to visit me
Don't bother crossing the Harbour bridge, unless you want to visit Manly Beach (Better and far less crowded than Bondi- forgive me @Lalabox). I may live up that way, but up here is snobby white privileged rich suburbia. Avoid like the plague unless you want to visit me
I have been very drunk in the inner city throughout my 20s but I've never once barfed. Not out of respect for it's fine streets, it's just never happened. Plenty of my friends have decked the halls tho
I wasn't drunk, I had a horrible gastric bug that hit me right after my interview at the US consulate.
I like... museums, rad bars, delicious food, exercise/hiking, modern art, and... uhh... nature? Architecture?
Isn't Sydney at least as big as Singapore?
...oh, hm, I guess not.
Still! I bet there's fun things.
There's a ton of museums, etc. I can give you the heads up on shopping and eating, though I don't spend enough time up there to really go 'out' out, but yes take the cliff walk south of bondi - it's gorgeous (and quite nature-y).
I'll see if one of my friends is playing any gigs that week, his stuff is always worth checking out.
Manly was my favorite beach to swim at when we used to spend summers in Sydney. But I don't think I've ever been to the north shore otherwise, except once accidentally because of one-way street systems.
Don't bother crossing the Harbour bridge, unless you want to visit Manly Beach (Better and far less crowded than Bondi- forgive me @Lalabox). I may live up that way, but up here is snobby white privileged rich suburbia. Avoid like the plague unless you want to visit me
Oh don't worry I'm a maroubra convert these days
Braboyzzzz!!!
I've spent the past year and a half of living in maroubra wondering if the bra boys still exist and apparently they don't really so much
Manly was my favorite beach to swim at when we used to spend summers in Sydney. But I don't think I've ever been to the north shore otherwise, except once accidentally because of one-way street systems.
Apart from me, there's nothing much here. And trust me- I'm not worth it.
Also the great burger place in the CBD is North Sandwich Cafe (and the burger stand that's part of it). It's only open for lunch but they are pretty much some of the best burgers I've had
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Hiking is pretty easy; Sydney is literally surrounded by national parks. Blue Mountains generally has the coolest views though. Recommend the walks around Katoomba, Leura and Wentworth Falls. In terms of beaches everyone knows about Bondi but Manly, Coogee, Maroubra and Cronulla beaches are also nice (as well as like twenty others in Sydney) and there's also the Central Coast.
In regards to delicious food, um, can you be more specific?
In regards to bars and restaurants and shops overall, Newtown and Surry Hills have heaps of cool bohemian stuff, there's some glitzy ones around Circular Quay and The Rocks and some generally awesome shit between Central and Wynyard overall including Chinatown.
Chatswood is now an Asian food borg cube of deliciousness, a terrifying yet beautiful apex of cuisine that threatens to swallow us whole. Can we swallow it first? Only you can help us.
Which bar was that bar?
This is the craziest thing I've ever said, I think, but I could go for a real solid hamburger. I haven't had one in months.
Is there... is there like, New Australian like there's New American cuisine?
Thanks y'all, I am very excited! Except for the work which I expect will be very stressful!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/07/an-introduction-to-modern-day-australian-food.html
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2008/07/01/about-modern-australian-food
It's pretty similar here to the US, where more modern Aussie cuisine is really just kind of a melting pot of all different fusions of flavour profiles and techniques.
Ko & Co. The Korean and Mexican fusion bar that had amazing soju and some of the best fried chicken in Sydney.
Also the bartender was an incredibly friendly and charismatic dude.
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Your best bets for burgers are normally cafes and pubs, but there are also some great ones in the city, like the takeaway place that @Seguer introduced us to
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Bar Luca.
I went there for lunch today and got one of these:
(They're not always that big, they have a different special burger each week as well as some regular ones.)
Following on from Apoc, Ian Potter Centre has what sounds like a really cool exhibition, Who's Afraid of Colour?
Bonus: it's free.
Also you should check out That's Melbourne, which has a free events section. (Beware there's a lot to wade through as it even captures such incredible events as... Millionaire Hot Seat Studio Audience.
Mary's, either the store front on Castlereagh or the unmarked pub in Newtown in the old Masonic hall.
Charlie & Co in the Westfield Sydney food court is pretty good too.
Or Burger Project in World Square.
There's a small cafe near my work called Livelo that do decent enough burgers but probably the greatest thick cut fries I've ever had.
Edit: God damn it @MrFuzzbutt I'm on a diet, I can't be finding out about these things.
I don't know if I'll have any real free time apart from dinner, or how much the people I'll be with from work will want to do with me, AND I know it's leading up to Australia Day, but if anyone wants to meet up and isn't a murderer, it's possible that I'll have free time! (I am also not a murderer.)
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs.
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I'm attending a wedding in Gloucester on the 21st and certain surrounding days, but I should be free most of the time.
If you do want to experience more nature, the Sydney coastal walk is also incredibly beautiful. You don't have to do all of it, but anywhere between Coogee and Bondi is absolutely stunning.
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Fitzroy Gardens is really nice, especially the Conservatory. And Cooks Cottage is interesting. It's also cheap as chips to get there by tram and into the cottage.
EDIT: it's actually free to get to Fitzroy Gardens if you get off the tram at stop 8 and walk the hundred or so metres from there. The free tram zone gets you around most of the shopping and eating in Melbourne CBD.
You can trust me because I'm from Melbourne and legally obliged to bag out Sydney folks.
I never heard of that bar.
My go to bars in Sydney CBD are Harts Pub (next to the rocks, good burgers and great beer selection) and Frankies Pizza By The Slice (looks like a pizza joint when you walk in, but go through the back doors and it's a rock/metal bar with also a great beer selection. Monday night is karaoke night with a live band). In Newtown I like The Union (again for beer and food).
I am getting sudden memory stirrings of the HofBrauHouse and how merrily and gay I decorated the place. *shudder*
I was young and stupid. Well, younger and stupider.
In terms of nice Sydney places, King St Newtown is worth a visit. Oxford St is great too, but it's getting pretty gentrified these days.
Circular Quay is good for a visit, as is the Botanic gardens when it's not stinking hot. The Rocks is nice but obscenely overpriced and is a total tourist trap.
Don't bother crossing the Harbour bridge, unless you want to visit Manly Beach (Better and far less crowded than Bondi- forgive me @Lalabox). I may live up that way, but up here is snobby white privileged rich suburbia. Avoid like the plague unless you want to visit me..
The Saturday Glebe Point markets are far better than the Rocks markets, and imho are better than the Paddington markets and Glebe Pt Rd is a great walk to take through the inner city community.
Surrey Hills has good drinking places and good eating places.
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I work in town on a normalish schedule if we organise dinner one night?
I can't really do bars unless the doctor tells me it is okay again next week though.
This just makes me want to go to El Loco and drink tecate.
It took me so long to train my phone to not do that autocorrect!
It is pretty good, overrated and not worth lining up the length of 3 stores, but pretty good (also it seemed to be reasonably priced but I can't remember).
I'm fond of The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst (bordering Surry Hills).
Oh don't worry I'm a maroubra convert these days
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*popcorn*
Braboyzzzz!!!
I wasn't drunk, I had a horrible gastric bug that hit me right after my interview at the US consulate.
There's a ton of museums, etc. I can give you the heads up on shopping and eating, though I don't spend enough time up there to really go 'out' out, but yes take the cliff walk south of bondi - it's gorgeous (and quite nature-y).
I'll see if one of my friends is playing any gigs that week, his stuff is always worth checking out.
I have no strong opinions on the matter except that maroubra is lovely and the ferry ride to manly is lovely but o don't think i've ever swim there
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I've spent the past year and a half of living in maroubra wondering if the bra boys still exist and apparently they don't really so much
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Apart from me, there's nothing much here. And trust me- I'm not worth it.
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"Manly Beach" as a name always makes me giggle
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This is how the cool kids talk, right?
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why won't this cringing stop