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Au Revoir Paris, These Are Sydney’s Top Steak Frites
Whether you're after a classic Parisian experience, a cheeky bottomless situation or a harbour-side splurge, the city is absolutely delivering on steak frites right now.
Steak frites was never supposed to be complicated. Born in the bistros of France, it’s always been about one key thing, and that’s perfect execution.
Sydney, as it turns out, is very good at this. The city was literally named the world’s best steak city for 2025, and a wave of French-leaning spots have leaned hard into the classics. The result is a steak frites scene that’s punching well above its weight and seems to be expanding almost daily, much to our delight! With the weather cooling down, nothing hits quite as hard as steak, chips and a glass of good red.
From juicy beef, shatteringly crisp fries and sauces so good you’d consider drinking them… these are the best steak frites in Sydney worth booking right now.
24 York
One dish. That’s it. If ever a restaurant put its money where its mouth is, it’s 24 York, which is the antidote to anyone who suffers from menu indecisiveness. From the same crew behind Rockpool, and Spice Temple, this venue serves nothing but steak frites, all day, every day. There’s no choices to be made except for the drinks menu.
The steak is a 220g MB2+ O’Connor Superior Grass-Fed Scotch Fillet which is grilled to order. The frites are fried in tallow for that extra beefiness, finished with Murray River salt, and the sauce situation gives you four options: peppercorn, chimichurri, kombu-infused umami butter and veal jus. Mustard comes on the house. You’d be silly not to try the umami butter which is this silky, savoury concoction that’s incredibly moreish.
Sitchu Tip: Visit during happy hour which runs 4–6pm daily. You can snag $12 Martinis and Negronis and $7 wines!
24 York St, Sydney NSW 2000
Bouillon L’Entrecôte
If you want to visit Paris, (like, genuinely want to feel like you’ve been teleported to a brasserie on the Left Bank), then Bouillon L’Entrecôte at Circular Quay is your spot. It’s Sydney’s first bouillon-style restaurant and it sits somewhere between bistro and brasserie, with the energy of both. Inspired by the legendary Le Relais de l’Entrecôte in Paris, the vibe is completely committed to the bit with French jazz, white butcher’s paper on the tables and French Chef Paul Boluse watching over everything from a giant portrait on the wall.
The steak frites is the hero and it earns that status. The serving is Premium Gippsland Black Angus sirloin, hand-cut fries, a simple green salad with walnut-mustard vinaigrette, and a secret sauce that nobody at the restaurant is telling you about (but we suspect there’s definitely butter involved). The menu’s also full of proper French bistro classics if you want to go the full déjeuner, so you can expect escargot, duck liver parfait, steak tartare…the works.
The restaurant recently expanded too, adding 30 new seats after consistently operating at capacity since opening, so your chances of getting a booking just increased tenfold. Go forth!
6 Loftus St, Sydney NSW 2000
The Dry Dock
The Dry Dock is a 160-year-old Balmain pub that seems to just get better with age. Under head chef Ben Sitton (who’s spent time at Felix, Uccello and Rockpool Bar & Grill), the Josper oven steak frites at this beautifully renovated heritage pub is worth talking about. The setting is perfect for the dish as well, with a wood-burning fireplace in the lounge, oyster bar in the dining room and a dog-friendly policy in the public bar. If you want to dial things up a notch and arrive by boat, it’s just a quick five-minute walk from the Balmain ferry wharf or a 10-minute ferry from Circular Quay.
The Dry Dock, 22 Cameron St, Balmain NSW 2041
Armorica Grande Brasserie
Armorica serves serious old world glamour with Italian marble, tufted cherry leather, naval brass railings, gilded table lamps and 150 seats of brasserie swagger, all built around a custom Josper grill at the heart of the kitchen. Andrew Becher (also behind Potts Point’s Franca and Parlar) drew inspiration from Northern France, and named the whole thing after the ancient Celtic region that would later become Paris.
The steak frites here comes fired over coals, smothered in bone marrow butter and served with a heaping helping of proper French fries alongside. There’s a dedicated menu section for it, with various Australian beef cuts on rotation and sauces that include béarnaise and Café de Paris butter. But the real reason Armorica keeps coming up in conversation is its Bottomless Steak Frites Mondays. For $65 per person, you can have as much steak and as many fries as you can physically eat from 5–9pm. Sydney loves a bottomless anything, but this might be one of its best.
Shop 1 & 2/490 Crown St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
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