The annual Audley Street festival celebrates the suburb’s Portuguese ties. Home to one of the oldest bowling clubs in Australia, and Fort Street High, the oldest public high school in New South Wales. A mix of housing styles as diverse as the people who live there. Some redeveloped, some in beautifully original condition. If you’re headed there, look out for the distinctive water tower and you’ll know you’re going in the right direction. Petersham.
1 Station St
A restaurant dish should never be considered great simply because it’s popular. You want your waiter to talk you through where the ingredients are from, how they’ve been prepared that day and what’s seasonally appropriate. Instead, when we ask our waitress at Blancmange whether we should order the goat’s cheese and cavolo nero pie or the slow roasted Berkshire pork, the answer we receive is “Well, the pie is our most popular dish”. So what?
There’s plenty on the Blancmange menu that sounds and...
102 New Canterbury Rd
As you might have gathered from the name, this Portugese restaurant has a focus on things with fins, gills and tentacles. The service isnt what youd call light speed so dont go if youre in a hurry and dont expect to be served right away. If you simply cant make it without a drink in hand, theres a bottle-o across the road that has a large selection of Portuguese wine and beer.
To keep with the tone of the restaurant (sea shanty chic), order the prawns a la plancha – simply grilled and...
Shop 1, 82–86 New Canterbury Rd
The best thing about eating Portuguese is the carb loading. Not only are you likely to get rice with your chips, but also mashed potato. Make sure you order the chicken at Silva’s, though. It’s tender, perfectly seasoned and excellent with a cerveja (beer) on the side. Salt cod croquettes are more potato than cod, but it’s hard to resist a ball of deep-fried mash. And of course, you’ve always got meat
on swords (espetadas). Dangling over the table like a Madeiran sword of Damocles, the weapon...
88 Audley Street
This petersham stalwart has the love of just about everyone who digs a bit of Greek food in Sydney. Try their spoon sweets with a Greek Coffee. And the Baklava ice cream rocks....