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MOS Cafe
Ph: (02) 9241 3636; Museum of Sydney, Phillip St cnr Bridge St, SYDNEY 2000 www.moscafe.com.au
Contemporary, $$, ** for Ambience
Open Mon-Fri 7am-9pm, Sat-Sun 8.30am-5pm, Closed Good Friday, Christmas Day; Licensed; AE DC MC V, Seats inside 150, Outside seats, Private room 20, Kids welcomed
Chef (Grant Gordon, 2007-11-3) Owner (Paul Lockrey & Ramy Shelhot, 2007-11-3)
Mietta's Review
This lovely and very popular cafe is well designed and friendly. Although nestled among Sydney's canyons of steel and stone, the setting is sunlit, and what's more, the food - simple Mod Oz - is pretty good. Tour the small, must-see museum, and then pick a table in the sun. Try for a weekend or a non-lunch hour time, this place can get packed with suits. The CBD is remarkably short on smart casual dining - this place picks up some of the slack.
Other published opinions
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 13.5/20 "Spreading out over the terrace by the Museum of Sydney's entrance, MoS Cafe has built up a loyal following over the years, taking food and service seriously rather than relying on the museum's passing trade"
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 Score: 13/20 "By day, you can join the pinstriped fraternity over breakfast or lunch in the spacious forecourt right alongside the Museum of Sydney. By night, move indoors to the slick, well-appointed, sandstone-walled room and dine more peacefully as the lunchtime regulars file past on their way home or pop in to collect takeaway supplies for late- night stints in the office."
SMH Good Food Guide 2005 Score 13/20 "Situated below the Museum of Sydney, the surroundings are a clever mix of old with new. You can sit inside, where traditional sandstone walls are fused with a sleek, modern black granite floor and chrome circular bar, or prop yourself outside and watch the busy CBD rat-race pass on by."
SMH GFG 2004, Score 12/20,And-there's a good breakfast menu,'hardly a cafe.Not with ingrediants this good and prices this steep...The forecourt tables are a popular luncheon spot on fine weekdays for the legal fraternity,merchant bankers and big men in big suits.'
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