Top 5 restaurants to visit in July

Golden Century

Sydney

It’s pretty much impossible to meet a Sydneysider who doesn’t know, love and frequent the big GC late on a Friday night for a bowl of life-saving congee and some barbecue pork. But we’ll let you in on a filthy secret: we actually enjoy an early, midweek Peking duck here too. Oooh.

Izakaya Fujiyama

Surry Hills

This place just keeps on getting better and better. Owner and chef Kenji Maenaka has started branching out with an ever-changing and often hard-to-get range of Japanese beer on tap. Drop by for some fried chicken, sashimi and a tuna wing.

Panama House

Bondi

Part bar, part café and part restaurant, Panama House is another offering from the folks behind the Shop and Wine Bar and the Corner House – the latter a couple doors down Bondi Road along with other South Bondi bars (SoBo, if you will) Flying Squirrel, the Rum Diaries and Stuffed Beaver.

Marque

Surry Hills

Mark Best’s Crown Street digs features one of the most unapologetically idiosyncratic menus you’re likely to see in Sydney. And we’re here to tell you that right now Marque is better than ever. Flavours and textures are bang-on, the wines are just as awe-inspiring and weird and if you can’t commit to the whole nine yards, visit for the Friday prix fixe.

Porcorosso

Waterloo

Porcorosso is a great new Italian place with a quirky Japanese bent and not a whole lot of fuss. The menu offers up a range of Italy’s finest exports: antipasti of grissini and prosciutto, a caprese salad and olives to snack on. There’s a rocket and parmesan salad, just as you’d expect, and just when you thought you were safe, boom – a seaweed and tofu salad, the first sign of a not-so-slight Japanese influence here.