With so many cafes to choose from in Darling Harbour, the best breakfast Darling Harbour restaurants include the following.
An all-day menu of healthy eats is reason alone to visit the Hellenic Republic in Pyrmont for breakfast. Dishes like the chicken souvlaki with olive oil potatoes and Tzatziki or the beetroot salad with spiced walnuts, goats cheese, and honey only further cement its position as one of Sydney’s top breakfasts spots.
The bustling Opera Kitchen at The Breakfast Group’s Headquarters Hotel is home to a famously good brekkie spread, served daily until 3 pm. On weekends especially, there are queues forming out the door for dishes like smashed avocado on Turkish toast or Greek yogurt pancakes when this place gets packed out.
You can’t make a reservation at the Breakfast Bowl, but you don’t need to – this small eatery’s 20-odd seats are usually occupied by hungry diners who’ve patiently queued for dishes like the sweetcorn fritters with roast tomato salsa and feta or fluffy ricotta hotcakes served straight off the griddle.
It may be situated inside Darling Harbour’s IMAX Theatre, but The Flying Pan puts serious thought into its breakfast menu. Served daily until 3 pm, options include Korean fried chicken bennies topped with kimchi, sunny side eggs, and cashew nuts, plus black truffle scrambled eggs on Turkish toast. What more could you want?
The Blackbird’s ‘all-day menu means breakfast is served until 3 pm, seven days a week. Look forward to daily changing dishes like baked eggs with confit salmon, spring onions, spinach, and hollandaise, plus veggie-packed options like haloumi cakes with tomato chutney.
Another newcomer to the Darling Harbour dining scene, Balzac’s is already getting a lot of love for its coffee and breakfast dishes. Try the ricotta hotcakes with blackberry compote or The Goodness Bowl, packed with smoothie-style ingredients like fresh fruit, nut milk, buckwheat groats, activated seeds, nuts, and more.
The Portside Wharf precinct in Walsh Bay has quickly become one of Sydney’s best places to score top-quality caffeine fixes along with good breakfast Darling Harbour. Topping that list are the scrambled eggs on toast at Eat Street Social – think two free-range 220g eggs served with Panisse (a crispy chickpea crumpet) plus house-made chorizo mixed through them – and the smashed avocado with roasted tomatoes, lemon, feta cheese, black olive dust, and fresh zest at George’s Parramatta.
Flying Fish is another Darling Harbour seafood restaurant that rocks breakfast – think prawn pocket brioche rolls filled with house-smoked salmon or crab claw vermicelli salad with yuzu dressing. But for casual counter meals, you can’t go past the scrambled eggs on toast with chorizo jam, cheddar cheese shavings, and basil oil at The Grain Store in Pyrmont.