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Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Sights
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Neighbourhood Top Five
1Australian Museum Learning about Indigenous rights and admiring the dinosaurs at this venerable attraction.
2Brett Whiteley Studio Dazzling your eyes with the bright, quirky colours at the onetime Surry Hills studio of this legendary Sydney artist.
3Porteño Eating your way around Sydney’s gastronomic heartland – starting with the slow-cooked meat here and then returning again and again to sample the variety of tastes the neighbourhood has to offer.
4Love, Tilly Devine Sipping something interesting at this excellent backstreet wine bar, then heading off to discover the area’s other top pubs and small bars.
5Stonewall Starting your exploration of what’s left of the Oxford St scene at the downstairs bar of this stalwart of the scene.
Explore Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Surry Hills bears little resemblance now to the tightly knit, working-class community so evocatively documented in Ruth Park’s classic Depression-era novels. The rows of Victorian terrace houses remain, but they’re now home to a mishmash of inner-city hipsters, foodies and LGBTQI folk who keep the many excellent neighbourhood restaurants and bars in business.
The warehouses lining Surry Hills’ moody lower canyons, near Central station, are the remnan...
Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to Sydney
- Sydney’s Top 10
- What’s New
- Need to Know
- Top Itineraries
- If You Like
- Month by Month
- With Kids
- Like a Local
- For Free
- Eating
- Drinking & Nightlife
- Entertainment
- Shopping
- Sports & Activities
- LGBTQ+ Sydney
- Beaches
- Neighbourhoods at a Glance
- Circular Quay & the Rocks
- City Centre & Haymarket
- Darling Harbour & Pyrmont
- Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
- Kings Cross & Potts Point
- Paddington & Centennial Park
- Bondi, Coogee & the Eastern Beaches
- Around the Harbour
- Newtown & the Inner West
- Manly
- Day Trips from Sydney
- Sleeping
- Understand Sydney
- Sydney Today
- History
- The Arts
- Architecture
- Transport
- Directory A-Z
- Behind the Scenes
- Sydney Maps
- Our Writers