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Surry Hills wine bar in the Paramount House Hotel from Ester's Mat Lindsay, with fire-cooked small plates (the potato rosti with chives and salted egg yolk is a local pick) and a low-intervention, mostly organic wine list.

Tiny, affordable vegan Vietnamese spot in Surry Hills run single-handedly by an elderly Vietnamese auntie who greets guests with complimentary fruit and tea. Known for pho, lemongrass tofu, rice paper rolls, and unusually warm hospitality.

Wine and bites, well executed and delicious. Sit at the bar and watch them do their magic, or outside on a warm night.

1920s-Tuscan-style Italian bar billed as the world's first dedicated Negroni bar, pouring 30-plus variations alongside charcuterie, burrata, and pastas like lamb-ragu pappardelle.