The Apollo Sydney

The Apollo sits on Macleay Street, a twenty-five-minute walk from Elizabeth Bay House. It holds a one-hat award from the Australian Good Food Guide, a distinction that positions it firmly among the city’s more serious kitchens.

The room runs smart, trading the stripped-back, rustic tropes of Mediterranean dining for a more polished aesthetic. While it shares the Sydney appetite for Modern Greek flavours with countless suburban tavernas, the cooking here is sharper, relying on technique rather than nostalgia. You choose this place when you want the precision of a hatted restaurant without the rigid formality usually required to get it. It is a more considered experience than its neighbours in the area, offering a Mediterranean menu that prioritizes technical discipline over the standard spread of shared plates found elsewhere in the city.