The restaurants listed below offer excellent dining experience but bring your credit card along with you, they are not cheap.

Tetsuyas: Most expensive-Sydney’s 1 restaurant but one has to book in advance to get a table. - 9267 2900 -Japanese/French

Quay - Overseas Passenger Terminal Circular Quay - 9251 5600 - Contemporary

Rock pool - The Rocks - 9252 1888- Contemporary

The Restaurant - Located in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and only open for Lunch 7 days a week from 12-3, with brunch on weekends from 10-11:30 AM. This is a great restaurant with terrific dishes, a nice wine list, and a beautiful water view. Don't let its location in a museum fool you; entrance to the museum is free and it's a charming place for a good lunch. Tel. 9223 1819. E-mail for reservations (recommended) to restaurant@ag.nsw.gov.au.

Kable's Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel (199 George Street) is not only centrally located with a large parking garage, but also offers a good value business lunch and lovely dinners. Seating is spacious (privacy is guaranteed) and the service excellent.  Nicely located looking down over the atrium lobby. Tel 9250 3226. French/Contemporary

Billson’s – Radisson Plaza Hotel - 8214 0496 - French/Contemporary

Guillaume at Bennelong - Opera House - 9241 1999 - French/Contemporary

Buon Ricordo – Boundary Street, Paddington - 9360 6729 - Italian

Aqua Dining at North Sydney Olympic Pool - 9964 9998 - Contemporary

Claude’s – 10 Oxford Street, Woollahra - 9331 2325 (best BYO) French

Otto - Woolloomooloo Wharf - 93687488 Italian

Marque 355 Crown Street, Surry Hills- 93322225 - French

The Establishment - city - 92403010 (Restuarant of the year 2005) Contemporary

Icebergs Dining Room - Bondi Beach - 93659000 - Mediterranean

Coast - Darling Harbour - 92676700 - Contemporary

Manta Ray - Woolloomooloo Wharf- 93323822 Italian seafood

Aria – Circular Quay- 9252 2555- Contemporary

Claude’s – Woollahra - 9331 2325 - French

Forty One - City - 9221 2500 - French

The Observatory Hotel – Rocks - Japanese/French

Bathers Pavilion – Balmoral Beach - 9969 5050 - Mediterranean

Bistro Moncur - Woollahra Hotel - 9363 2519 - French

Longrain - Surrey Hills - 9280 2888 - Asian

Lucios Paddington - 9380 5996 - Italian

Marque - Surry Hills - 9332 2225 - French

Omega - City - 9223 0242 - Greek

Pello - East Sydney - 9360 4640 - European

Pier - Rose Bay - 9327 6561 - Seafood (best seafood)

Sean's Panaroma - 9365 4924 - Contemporary

Sushi E - 9240 3041 - Level 4, Establishment Hotel - modern Japanese

Yoshii - The Rocks - 9247 2566 - Japanese