Pre-Vivid Dining at Kingsleys

Overview

Sydney, you're spoilt for choice when it comes to eating and drinking before, during and after Vivid. Go open air at the Opera House for Korean fried chicken and Archie Rose cocktails, feast on a multi-course dinner curated by Nigella Lawson and served underground, or visit a plant-based American diner (complete with a roller skating rink).

Alternatively, head to Kingsleys Woolloomooloo for a two-course pre-Vivid dinner while overlooking the harbour. You'll start with shared plates of seared Hokkaido scallops with champagne beurre blanc, caviar and chives, and locally caught calamari with citrus mayo, togarashi and green onion. Both come with warm sourdough with smoked butter.

Come main time, meat lovers will be tucking into a 300 gram, 120-day grain-fed, MB2+ Black Angus sirloin with cafe de Paris butter, red wine jus and shoestring fries. Or go for the potato gnocchi and baby burrata with a decadent sauce of confit tomato, asparagus, chervil, white wine, lemon, butter and parmigiano reggiano.

Whatever you pick, the two courses, which are available from 5-7pm throughout Vivid, will set you back $89 a head. And, once you're done, you'll be just a stone's throw from all the lights of the city.