Top Restaurants in Kingsford
Top Things to do in Kingsford
Best European food near Kingsford, Randwick, New South Wales
Find out what European restaurants to try in Kingsford including Cafe de France, Moxhe Restaurant, La Spiaggia, Bishop Sessa, Mamma Teresa Italian Restaurant, bibo Wine Bar, Claires kitchen at le Salon, Corner 75 Restaurant, Gavroche Chippendale, Caffe Amici
Things to do in Kingsford
10. Caffe Amici
Overall Ratings
4 based on 196 reviews
Here at Caffè Amici in Sydney you find a casual and friendly environment where you can taste the best Italian recipes cooked with the finest and fresh ingredients and enjoy imported Italian wines and beers. Since 2009 Stefano and Tania welcome you for bre
Reviewed By Peter A
Based on high TA ratings we pre-booked this small but popular caffe for an early dinner.Our food choices were well cooked traditional pasta and meat dishes and the support of locals was obvious, including take-away service. By Sydney pricing standards the food was very good value and overall we had a very good experience.
9. Gavroche Chippendale
Overall Ratings
4 based on 229 reviews
The menu of Gavroche Chippendale pays homage to Parisian Bistrots. With an array of classic dishes that capture the Parisian spirit, and a wine list with a mix of hand-selected French and Australian wines, youâve got the buzz of Paris in the heart of Sydn
Reviewed By liland10
Whole John Dory did not have a lot of bones apart from the ones in the middle, donât know how they did it! Duck leg was tasty. Chicken liver pate was so tasty, we wanted to lick the jar. Crepe Suzette was epic with the fire display and tasty too. Friendly staff. Beautiful decor and lighting. Enjoyable!
8. Corner 75 Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 85 reviews
Reviewed By Greg B
Let me conform at the outset that Hungarian food is acclaimed for its wonderful flavours worldwide, and in the tradition of the classic Hungarian restaurant, the Corner 75 menu has an enormous range of Hungarian and European dishes. For starters you should savour the amazing Goulash soup, the Matzo Dumpling Soup or one of my favourites Lecho with Frankfurters.For the mains you MUST dip into the Paprika Schnitzel (very Hungarian) or my favourite the Gipsy Roast (Lean pork fillets in garlic sauce and crispy bacon). But wait, no Hungarina meal is complete with some very flavoursome sides such as Hungarian Red Cabbage or Cream of Spinach and add to that some really good Lángosh (Hungarian Garlic Bread).There is also the ever popular Crispy Duck which my wife loves, or if you like taste the Eye Fillet, the Veal Fillet with Lecho Salsa, or Veal "Brassói (Pan fried veal strips with garlic, onion, bacon and herbs, tossed with sautéed potatoes).To top it off, the restaurant is BYO or if you prefer try the wonderful range of pálinkas; pure fruit brandies imported from countries including Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro and France. The host is Paul Varga who is a native of Hungary with over twenty years experience in Hungarian, Russian, Polish and Modern Australian cuisine. A must visit if you desire authentic Hungarian meals in a warm, casual and friendly environment.
7. Claires kitchen at le Salon
Overall Ratings
4 based on 373 reviews
French born Marc Kuzma AKA Claire de Lune, has created a traditional French Brasserie menu with a few modern twists. Claire has decorated the venue with fabulous imported wall papers, antiques and chic furniture. Business partner, Valentin has hand picked
Reviewed By Jackie M
Thereâs a collective intake of breath in the intimate dining room when everyone opens their menus. Fanning out like piano accordions, each menuâs glowing white light captures guestsâ faces in a state of childlike wonder as they scratch their heads and wonder what it is theyâre meant to eat. Eat the pages of the menu? Itâs rather absurd, but then so is the nonsensical and satirical movement Le Salon DadA is based upon. Being familiar with Marc Kuzmaâs work at El'Circo at Slide, I entered Claireâs Kitchen at Le Salon with a fair idea of what to expect. In this setting Kuzma (who is also known as Claire de Lune) has kicked things up to the next level using a City of Sydney night-time diversification grant. These monies are all about local council trying to restore some of Sydneyâs faded night-time glory, decimated by Gladys Berejiklianâs lockout laws. It's a perverse situation of local government giving what the state government has taken away.But I digress⦠Kuzmaâs resulting night, (which will set you back $140/head) is based upon Cabaret Voltaire, a Swiss enclave of artists escaping the First World War. DadA was anti-establishment, anti-reason and anti-logic. DadA was the antidote to the bourgeois capitalist interests that the artists believed had led people into war in the first place. Following this line, our first course takes curative form as a wartime first aid kid with tongue depressor, bandages and a petri dish containing a smooth French mushroom parfait topped with sauternes jelly. Scraped onto crackers, itâll sustain you through your cocktail construction â the recipe and ingredients are in your bucket.With shiso leaf-infused vodka, nettle liqueur and pomegranate cordial, itâs a tangy, slightly more sophisticated Cosmopolitan with little blasts of sweetness when the pearls of passionfruit and lime pop on your tongue. The rest of your boozing is done in the usual fashion, with many wines - including the 2017 Cave de Turckheim Pinot Blanc ($70/bottle) we selected - available by glass, carafe and full bottle. The fresh, dry white wine proves easy to enjoy through some on-stage art that sees a semi-nude model enhanced with the f-holes from a cello, and some at-the-table card tricks. Itâs a multimedia affair, with German expressionist film, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), playing on screens placed throughout the dining room. Seen through the eyes of an asylum patient, the film may leave you wondering whatâs real and whatâs not.Contortionist Jade Twist continues our surrealist descent by wearing a black zentai suit with eyes and lips in all the wrong places. Tying herself in knots until she looks like a human pretzel, Twist makes it hard to know which way is up, and which direction way is forward. It's a perfect segue to a course based upon The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably Salvador Daliâs most famous surrealist work. From the edge of a martini glass, his melting pocket watch drips in cracker form to accompany a well-spiced cold capsicum and tomato soup. Your soup is poured from a vessel that is itself a nod to Daliâs 1972 piece, Marilyn Monroe, shown up on the screens.Itâs this attention to detail that makes Kuzmaâs night so intellectually rich for art-lovers, with clever details like Marcel Duchampâs Bicycle Wheel (1913) in the stairwell on the way up to the dining room. Even the table setting is done in the style of DadA, down to a DadA print cloth serviette. Without wanting to give it all away, the next course â the only hot course - a rainbow trout roulade, is a nod to Joan Miró. Everything on the splattered abstract plate is edible, down to the crisp fish bones.On the stage, the inimitable Shauna Jensen is clad in a thematic âsinging fishâ (one of Miroâs recurring motifs) kaftan, as she belts out Ella Jenkins' Wade in the Water. Jensen returns later in the evening with This Is Me from The Greatest Showman. It's guaranteed to leave you uplifted â from her talented lips the power balladâs lyrics sound inspirational rather than twee. Kuzma has been booking cabaret acts for decades and has a real eye for talent, as youâll no doubt discover across the night.Le Salon DadA is a rich and punny, multimedia experience that will appeal to all of your senses. âJust like the painting, there is no confusion, it is designed to put in your mouth,â Kuzma finishes.Le Salon DadA takes place on Sunday evenings at Claire's Kitchen at le Salon. Bookings are essential.
6. bibo Wine Bar
Overall Ratings
5 based on 103 reviews
Modern, elegant wine bar in the heart of Double Bay, with delicious food using the best local produce, exceptional wines and friendly service.
Reviewed By ArmaanHCMC
I was lucky enough to attend a third birthday dinner for Bibo Wine Bar this week. Not only do they have a highly original and unique selection of fabulous wines but these pair so effortlessly with their delicious food menu. Everything is a perfect match.Dinner was a selection of share plates starting with entree style smoked salmon pâté, the incredibly delicious scallop cru & finger lime, runner bean fitters, and the piri piri aubergine and the mouth watering Flambé chorizo. This was followed by the equally mouth watering main size Suckling Pig with Fennel, persimmon & pomegranate. We finished this with a quince & bergamot tart followed my mini Portuguese tarts straight out of the oven. All of this was with matching wines by the glass perfectly chosen from Portugal to Australia. All in all this was a wonderful evening. I would highly recommend Bibo Wine Bar for anything from a special dinner for two to a large group booking for a celebration. Either way you will be looked after and will have a truly special dinning experience.
5. Mamma Teresa Italian Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 90 reviews
Reviewed By Jackie M
(3.5 stars)After battling the Kingsford stretch of the eyesore that is Gladys Berejiklianâs incompatible, delayed, and over-budget light rail disaster, it was a relief to finally sink into our table at Mamma Teresa, right beside a beautiful tank of fish. Along with a trio of goldfish, this eye-catching tank - which doubles as a transparent room divider separating diners from the pizza kitchen - is full of hardy African fishes. Watching multitudes of babies swim about feels curiously reassuring, perhaps because one suspects that if a restaurant can keep a fish tank so healthy, they might keep their kitchen in a similar manner.Iâm also reassured by diners at the next table, who, upon seeing me photograph my entree, lean over and volunteer that âit tastes as good as it looks.â Theyâre locals and regulars, and some friendly conversation ensues.Mamma Teresa has existed in this spot for more than forty years. Mahyar Kianfar (Kian) took it over a few years ago, but kept the name, and is proud of the restaurant's history as âthe first Italian restaurant in the Eastern Suburbs.â Kian has ensured a smooth ownership transition by retaining the same chef who has cooked at Mamma Teresa for the last eight years. Together they have opted to keep a wide menu of Italian classics, like rough, hand-made gnocchi, which you can opt to eat as creamy Carbonara ($14.50/entrée). With pepper and extra cheese added at the table, my only complaint was this well-cooked pasta dish arrived a lot faster than our wine!After a gentle nudge, my rogue Lawson Dry Hills Pinot Rose ($7/glass) arrived just as I finished scraping up the remaining skerricks of creamy sauce flavoured with bacon, shallots and egg using crisp Garlic Bread ($5.50). Pale pink and dry, the rose is an easy-to-drink, fruit-driven drop, which impresses more than a Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio ($8.50/glass) that's a bit acidic and golden apple-heavy for me.These characteristics do help to cut through the grease on the remaining portion of our antipasti Chorizo & Halloumi ($14.90). The deep-fried and overwhelmingly salty cheese was a bit of a surprise on this dish. I found it dominated the tasty, pan-fried chorizo cooked with rosemary, garlic, chilli and lemon, and there weren't enough leaves to balance it.Rosemary was also well-employed in Veal Romano ($23.90) where two thin slices of tasty, crumbed veal were adorned with silky pink folds of ultra-thin leg ham, with a black pepper and white wine sauce rounding out the dish. Grain-fed Eye Fillet ($28.90) is well-rested and insanely tender under a good green pepper sauce dotted with whole green peppercorns. We both opt for salad as our meal accompaniment, which is crisp, and generously proportioned. Itâs dressed in quite a vinegary way that helps to cut through the creamy pepper sauce. Capsicum proves a particular delight, though produce quality is good across the board.While the dishes here donât look flash, they offer up good technique for a decent price, which makes Mamma Teresa an easy favourite for locals. While the light rail destruction does make the view out the front windows a bit of a write-off, in the rear Martine Emderâs seaside mural painted back in 1998 has an almost luminous quality that from a distance fools the eye into thinking itâs a seaward window. Until Gladys Berejiklian finally gets it done, this illusion of tranquility will have to suffice.
4. Bishop Sessa
Overall Ratings
4 based on 266 reviews
Reviewed By RonWamberal
Superficially good but just misses. Good lunch venue, could be either a cafe or wine bar, food artistically presented but just missed. The jerusalam artichoke appealed as a small dish but the taste lacked any taste or flavour.The restaurant is closing partly because of the nearby light rail chaos but I'm not sure it was worthy of a repeat visit.
3. La Spiaggia
Overall Ratings
4 based on 380 reviews
Reviewed By margaretannmay
Consistently Good food & good atmosphere. The before 6.30pm deal Monday to Friday is excellent value. I keep going back when in Sydney so I must think itâs pretty good. Took friends there the other night & they said they will also be back
2. Moxhe Restaurant
Overall Ratings
5 based on 82 reviews
Moxhe is a Modern Australian restaurant with a focus on Fresh Seafood. It was started up by partners Helen Diab and David Coumont, and the name comes from David's home village in Belgium. "We love Australian Seafood. The concept of our restaurant is to br
Reviewed By AdelaideAndrew
We attended at Moxhe, without a reservation; on a Friday evening. The cheerful staff member accommodated us with a great table. The food was more than delicious. We started with an amuse bouche and then by sharing three different flavours of Sydney rock oysters, then mussels smoked on a bed of lucerne, then squid in a ink jus, with freekah and cucumber, and prawn tortellini. For main we shared sea bream, with pipis, cockles or vongole (depending on where you hail from) and green vegetables. Topped off with banana gelato and chocolate entremet for the dessert lovers. The menu is based around whatever chef has bought at the dayâs market. Not a cheap restaurant but very worthwhile for delicious fresh, carefully considered food. We recommend Moxhe highly,Hi Andrew!Thanks for your kind words, iâll Pass them to the team. Iâm glad you enjoyed your time with us.
1. Cafe de France
Overall Ratings
4 based on 196 reviews
Reviewed By Cpennington92
I visited Cafe De France in Coogee with my partner in April 2019 based on a recommendation from a lady who worked in both this cafe and another one on Coogee Bay road. The restaurant is on a back street and there are both seats outside on the street and within the restaurant. Myself and my partner both ordered the Croque-Monsieur, which the restaurant prides itself for being the the best in the world. Unfortunately, we found it to be a little bland and average at best. The waitress was a little turse, too; not very friendly when taking our order or serving us!
Where to eat Australian food in Kingsford: The Best Restaurants and Bars
