What makes Surry Hills so great? It's a melting pot of Sydney's best cultural clichés - ironic-bogans attend gallery openings with hipster coffee-brewers and art-wankers frequent cafes with boutique-tradies. It may sound pretentious, but Surry Hills is your carefully considered, well-styled friend who can be a little rough around the edges, but somehow oozes a cool that you'll always aspire to. Whether it's meeting with someone to discuss their screenplay at an alleyway coffee shop, or grabbing an artisanal whiskey at a hole-in-the-wall bar, Surry Hills is a place to spend a lazy weekend filling your Instagram with aesthetically pleasing shots to brag about. Plan all you want, but any local will tell you that Surry is best experienced with only a vague idea of where you’re headed - leaving yourself enough space to stumble across that new gallery, or that awesome pub on the corner. So roll up your chinos, and get stumbling.
The perfect cure for a 'Slurry Hills' hangover.
Argentinean food, made to please. Vegetarians need not apply.
For the foodies.
The authentic American Bar you've been searching for.
Buzzy Irish bar, jungle-themed wallpaper, red drapes.
A chance to get forensic and deconstruct the genesis of the art on display.
Great coffee and food, served only by the best hipsters.
The old faithful.
Burgers bro? Chur!
Gelato that so tempting, it's NSFW.
Straight from the back streets of Bogota.
Coffee and fashion, together at last.
Hidden gem, in sandwich store form.
Specialty coffee for those that take their beans seriously.
For when you're walking down Bourke Street and realise you're hungry, poorly dressed and in need of a coffee - all at the same time. The Stables is a small complex that combines a cafe/restaurant down back, with a designer fashion store up front. The coffee is great, the pastries from Luxe Bakery are lifechanging, and the sandwiches & salads for lunch sell fast. The whole concept is great fun, even if the clothes are a little more expensive than your cappuccino.
