Sydney Brunch with a View

Sydney brunch in 2026 isn’t where it was a year ago.

The list of obvious spots – the ones every visitor already knows, the ones with a queue out the door by nine – has quietly stopped being the list locals actually use.

The better version of a Sydney brunch is the one a few streets back. Newer, smaller, run by people who cooked somewhere else for years and decided this was the year to do their own thing.

Start close to home.

Celsius, Kirribilli Wharf

@celsiuscoffeeco

Glass walls right on the ferry wharf, harbour at the table, a small kitchen turning out chilli-buttered eggs and balsamic-glazed eggs that punch well above their size. The kind of place locals don’t really want written about.

Across the bridge, the East has had a busy year.

Bistro Bondi

@loxinabox

The Lox in a Box team’s first proper restaurant. Bagels, natural wine, the kind of weekend room that gets messaged about rather than tagged. Their full HQ takes over 178 Oxford Street mid-year – the old Infinity Bakery building with the deep green facade – and it’s the opening Bondi is most quietly excited about.

Besa, Hall Street

@besabondi

Opened in February by the Aalia crew. Spanish, coastal-leaning, already the hardest weekend table in Bondi.

Brandon’s, Paddington

@brandonspaddington

Hides behind a small door on Comber Street. Iced matcha with its own following, toasties pressed on focaccia, regulars who guard the address.

Noon, Manly

@noonmanly

The move off the Corso. The brekkie roll – Pioik focaccia, Peats Ridge eggs, Whole Beast bacon – is the order. Retro-leaning room that opens onto the street.

Bronte Road Fish

@bronteroadfish

New, in the old Bronte Road Bistro space. If the morning ran long, reverse the Bondi-to-Bronte walk and it lands at exactly the right time – the kind of lunch that’s still really brunch.

The pattern, if there is one, is that the best mornings in Sydney aren’t on the lists. They’re a few streets back from the ones that are.

Which is the point of where you stay.

TAS apartments sit inside these pockets – Kirribilli, Mosman, Neutral Bay and Cremorne on the Lower North Shore, the beach end of town at Manly and Bondi, the inner-city laneways of Paddington and Surry Hills. A short walk to Celsius. Around the corner from Bistro Bondi. Down the street from Brandon’s.

A great Sydney brunch starts the moment you step out the front door.

That’s what TAS is built for.

 

Author: Neil Sturdy

Published: 29/05/2026