Dinner at Birdie Bar and Brasserie
Birdie Bar and Brasserie joins Sydney’s evolving culinary scene
The stellar restaurant is synonymous with classic yet avant-garde style dishes and cocktails, interweaved with British and Australian fare
Birdie Bar and Brasserie is an elevated restaurant and bar with an Australian and British influence, skilfully marrying innovation and tradition to delight the senses.
Inspired by the curious and exotic Australian Lorikeet Bird, Birdie provides an immersive dining experience, where guests are taken on an unforgettable voyage of global flavours, where the comforting classics have been creatively adapted with a unique twist.
Its diverse menu champions local suppliers with a culinary visionary and awe-inspiring background.
In a continuous nod to its British heritage, enriched interiors flow throughout the space with elements of brass gold, marble, and zellige mosaic tiles. The calming and inviting space aptly captures the feeling of being in a nest, combining natural materials and earthy tones, with mood lighting, ambient tunes, and unmatched service, setting the scene for an unparalleled food and drink experience to come. Birdie’s signature wallpaper takes centre stage, an ode to the Lorikeet Bird’s home, a welcoming and cosy oasis.
With an outlook of York Street and Wynyard Park, the space has been thoughtfully designed around the notion of creating an environment with less waste, both environmental and spatial. Birdie offers comfortable lounge seating with a high-bar area that seats up to 10, overlooking the open kitchen where guests can admire the culinary craftsmanship in the kitchen, as they serve up an oasis of delicious flavours and creative textures.
Reflecting Birdie’s distinct palate are playful takes on dishes like Garlic Bread, Fish Pie, Pulled Lamb and Birdie’s Cheese Burger. A fast lunch offer coupling a perfectly sizzled steak and frites, with house beverage, is ideal for corporate lunches and travellers whilst the Canary in A Coal Mine menu is for those with a little more time to sit and savour, featuring seven seasonal dishes, plus dessert, served in a share setting, allowing for a truly unique culinary experience that fosters connection whilst dining.
An unmatched epicurean experience is Birdie’s Pavlova with a perfectly executed take on a deconstructed dessert, served in a delicate champagne coupe-like glass and drizzled with seasonal fresh Australian stone fruits, proving to be as mesmerising to the eyes as it is on the tastebuds. Or the Mango tart, featuring an iconic Australian summer fruit, along with cultured cream and cardamom. This show-stopping dessert provides a sense of surprise and delight, where contrasting flavours are combined as one, juxtaposed, yet paired beautifully together.
The ingenious cocktail menu takes inspiration from six native Australian birds; The Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, Chestnut Teal, Red Browned Finch, Satin Bowerbird, Galah and Golden Whistler, blending each of their colours, behaviours and mannerisms into a bespoke cocktail. Satin Bowerbirds are known for decorating their nest with dark objects, which has been artistically translated into Birdie’s Irish whiskey, lemon, blackberry and hibiscus tipple, with dark blackberries neatly arranged around the glass brim. While the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, known for its distinctive speech, brings about the theatrics with its lemon meringue foam and shortbread crumble, using Hickson House Australian Dry Gin, from the nearby The Rocks, Sydney.
The wine list can only be described as representing a ‘nomadic spirit’, traversing through the skies of Australia, Europe and South America. While beers feature Birdie’s very own lager, available on tap, and British-inspired beers from renowned Sydney breweries; Brewdog Brewery, Lord Nelson Brewery, Young Henry’s and Atomic Brewery.
Birdie is committed to optimising and improving the food cycle ‘from farm to fork’, sourcing food responsibly and locally to preserve biodiversity and reduce their environmental impact.
“We are proud to embrace and showcase many local artisan suppliers on Birdie’s menu, from the local ingredients creatively combined on our plates, to the breweries and distilleries we partner with,” says Director of Food and Beverage, Ben Nicholls. “Our sustainability efforts extend further to reducing food waste in our kitchen, providing an organic and seasonal menu, while also promoting fair practices for local producers, farmers and the conditions for animals.”
Birdie Bar and Brasserie is now open and invites both Sydneysiders and travellers alike to join in a gastronomical voyage of global flavours, set in a welcoming, and contemporary atmosphere.
