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Top food to try in Sydney

6 dishes to eat in Sydney, what is in them, and where they belong.

Last updated 2026-08-08

1. Meat pie

Meat pie
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Minced beef in gravy in a hand-sized pastry case, with tomato sauce, at bakeries and football grounds.

2. Barramundi and seafood

Barramundi and seafood
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Sydney Fish Market is the largest in the southern hemisphere; barramundi, Balmain bugs and Sydney rock oysters.

3. Modern Australian and Asian fusion

Modern Australian and Asian fusion
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The city's defining cuisine, drawing on Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese and Lebanese communities.

4. Lamington

Lamington
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Sponge cake in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut, sometimes split with cream or jam.

5. Vegemite on toast

Vegemite on toast
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Thin scraping on buttered toast. Applied thickly it is genuinely unpleasant, which is how most visitors try it.

6. Chicken parmigiana at a pub

Chicken parmigiana at a pub
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Crumbed chicken with tomato and cheese, with chips and salad. The standard Australian pub meal.

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