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Hyde Park Barracks Cafe
Ph: (02) 9222 1815; Queens Square, Macquarie St, Sydney 2000 www.hydeparkbarrackscafe.com.au
Australian Modern, $$, * for Ambience
Open Mon-Fri 8am-3pm, Sat-Sun 10am-3pm, Closed Good Friday, Christmas Day; Licensed; Seats inside 90, Outside seats 60, Private room 30, Kids welcomed
Mietta's Review
Tucked away inside the ancient brick walls of one of Sydney's earliest remaining architectural treasures, is this lovely cafe - and happily the food and flower-filled decor are of the present day. Whilst the menu is small a good range of well cooked dishes are offered, the Fish and Chips was light and crispy, perfect. They only serve lunch and, as they are right near the courts, they are packed - read lots of barristers.
Other published opinions
SMH Good Food Guide 2005 Score 13/20 "Around 180 years ago, only convicts and mad women saw inside the Barracks, a superb convict-built example of Francis Greenway's colonial architecture, set in a private courtyard behind sandstone walls off busy Macquarie Street. Now the cafe on this popular tourist site welcomes allcomers, with plenty of sightseers joining the regular clientele of city suits from the legal and financial fraternities. They settle into an airy, noisy, lightfilled dining room, at tables covered in crisp white linen and butcher's paper."
SMH GFG 2004, Score 13/20,'Throughly Mod Oz in a heritage-listed city landmark.With its cavernous ceilings and French doors opening out onto the crushed rock forecourt of the muesuem, the Barracks has that Old Sydney Town colonial feel while serving clean, crisp and contemporary food...Service looks the part'
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