The Field Notes
Local guides
Hand-written lists of the rooms, lookouts and corners worth crossing the city for. Every entry opens in place — nothing throws you out of the archive.
01Street FoodBest Turkish street food in Sydney
Charcoal, flatbread and a squeeze of lemon. Two counters doing the work of a whole istanbul street — one waterside, one market-side — both turning out pide, lahmacun and hand-rolled gozleme to order.
02Hidden BarsBest hidden bars CBD area
In Sydney's CBD, finding the door is half the point: take a fourth-floor lift, head down basement stairs or slip behind a barber shop's silver door. Old Mate's Place, The Baxter Inn, The Barber Shop and Papa Gede's Bar turn an evening around Clarence, York and Kent streets into a small discovery trail. For the final stop, head north to The Rocks, where Tailor Room sits inside the historic Argyle Stores.