Thanks to a staff shortage at Sydney airport my flight out of town was cancelled. While I was…read morepretty devastated at having to stay over night, I ended up being comp'd a free night at the IBIS along with $50 to spend on food and drinks for dinner. Having travelled for over a day I didn't feel like going out to far so headed down to the restaurant and bar in the lobby. Decided to splash out and treat myself after a horror day traveling and ordered a Jim Beam & Coke to go with my large rib eye! Ordered medium rare and got just what I asked for. Well seasoned steak with some large rustic fries was just what the dr ordered!! Fast and friendly service with decent prices!

Located inside the Ibis Sydney Airport Hotel, we walked in to find a quiet and deserted…read morerestaurant/lounge. It looks like we came in between the breakfast buffet crowd and the lunch crowd. The receptionist at the hotel lobby area said that someone will help us shortly. We ordered at the bar from a menu that consisted of a handful of items but more reasonably priced than our hotel that we were staying at nearby. I ordered the Fish & Chips and my husband ordered the Angus beef burger with beer battered chips. The Fish & Chips were decent, flavorful but nothing special. Same for the Angus burger. I did like the decor of the place, very modern clean lines and with a travel theme. They have a fair wine/beer list that looks like a cool place to have a drink if you were in this part of town.

Experience authentic traditional Argentine cuisine, in the Stamford hotel by the Sydney airport…read more Decor is welcoming and the atmosphere is inviting. Enjoy watching the culinary art of cooking while you dine. Reservations are good idea although we did not have any and were directed to sit at the bar. After meeting the manager and the chef we were seated at a table. The chef is from Colombia and is excellent! Everything was delicious. The steak was cooked to perfection, charred exterior from the high heat cast iron sear, the meat was rich and melted in your mouth. Vegetables were tender and succulent. The sauces are tasty and the sweet potato fries had the perfect balance of a sweet savory light coating offering that maximizing crunch and fluffy tender interior. Excellent! Would highly recommend this restaurant.

If you're expecting a restaurant experience, this is not the place for you. After being shown to a…read moretable, no one working at the "restaurant" even acknowledged us sitting at the table, menus open, searching to eye contact. We had questions about the menu, but finally resorted to ordering off the QR code on the table. My husband and I ordered the Waygu Tomahawk steak, medium rare. It came with grilled veggies that were cold but still the start of the show, flavor wise. Our steak was halfway to transitioning to beef jerky. It was laborious to chew, dry, and far from buttery as one would expect of a $160 cut of Waygu. No one asked us how we were enjoying our meal, beyond having the food dropped off no one even acknowledged we exist. Deeply disappointing.

Awesome service with friendly staff. The Porterhouse steak was perfect and price was not too high…read more All in all happy with the night. They didn't make me feel strange for coming in alone looking all lonely. Top spot

Amazing place for pizza. The service was great and the staff were super friendly. I'll be coming…read moreback to try more (and this time I won't forget to take pictures)!!

Great food! Ordered the children's pizza. Also had the pesto gnocchi and special risotto of the…read moreday. Would for sure come back. If American, be aware drinks are served room temp or slightly cold.

We visited Mezza train which is located below a residential complex, close to domestic airport and…read moremascot station. If you drive, make you go early as it can be difficult to get a parking spot, though the owner informed us of a parking station across the road at a $10 flat rate. It is a great meet up spot for a quick bite to eat if seated at the train, or a dinner with friends near the airport. It is basically the concept of a sushi train, but serving Lebanese cuisine. There are plenty of options on the train, but you can also order hot foods from the grill. You can also have made to order. All seatings come with a basket of pita bread and crispy fried pita bread to be used with the dips. We tried all the dips on offer; including hummus 'lord of the chickpeas' (chickpea with tahini and garlic), baba ghannouj (smoked eggplant with tahini, garlic, and lemon), and labne (strained yoghurt with olive oil). They were all a nice consistency and very tasty. From the cold mezza plates, we tried the 'shanklish' which was a salad; seasoned and served with diced tomato as described by them 'the goods' and it certainly was. We also had the 'arnabeet' - fried cauliflower, always delicious, as was the Haloumi. You can't go wrong with fried anything. These were also a Vegan and Gluten free option. From the warm mezza plate options we tried the sambousek and kibbeh - minced beef in pastry shells with onion and lightly fried. My husband tasted the warn enab; similar to dolmades: vine leaves wrapped around rice, tomato, parsley. As great combination to try with the dips. There are numerous vegetarian and vegan options to try including the falafel (my personal favourite) as well as gluten free selections. From the grill, the Lebanese barbeque, this was cooked hot to serve. It included shwarma chicken served with garlic sauce which was a favourite of my husband. There was also shwarma lamb. The maanet were mini beef sausages, also very tasty. The Kafta was very nice - lamb mince with parsley, onion and garlic. There were more options; which made good accompiaments for the meat including the fattoush which is a tomato salad, tabouli and the kabees pickled vegetables. There are so many choices but we couldn't try them all - so full but my husband did make room for some sweets. He tried the baklava which was very tasty but his favourite was the knafeh - a semolina mixture with melted cheese, crushed pistachio drizzled with orange blossom syrup. A different version to the bearded brothers, but just as tasty. Because the dishes are small plates, it gives you the opportunity to try many things which is great. Will have to definitely come again sometime. There are a wide range of alcoholic choices; wine, beers and cocktails as well as soft drinks and juices. The owner and staff there were very informative and hospitable. He tells us that the food is just as good as his mothers, as many of his guests would agree. Just don't tell their mums ;) A great experience to dine here and we'll definitely be back for a revisit.

I drive up and down the main street past this place alot and only just noticed this place on…read morethursday night and looked it up and of course was very intrigued to give it a go :)!! So i loved the idea that that its sushi train but with Lebanese food :D!! Place wasn't so busy probably only cause not many people have found out about the place yet. They had heaps of dips, sweets and warm food circling around.. they had 5 different plate prices, dips being the cheapest and meat being the most to pay. Overall the dips, soft & crisp bread, falafel, some sweets and everything else apart from the meat was what was expected.. tasty :). The meat was not bad but not the best tasting. I guess when I've been to other Lebanese Restaurants like Jasmin or Al Aseel you compare every other Lebanese Restaurant to them.. Also when it came to ordering meat dishes of the menu or drinks it was only 1 girl taking those orders down for the whole place.. when you ask any of the other people running around they apologise and point to the 1 girl to ask her to take the order. All in all i loved the Lebanese Train Idea and the extremely friendly staff, I did leave with a full stomach & it ended up costing about the $50 mark or a bit more per person to be well fed.

I found this place by Accident , and I'm super stoked about it, it is small but OHO, friendly staff…read more best cafe in the Area I had so far... and your breakfast special Green Egg Benedict ohhhh damm what a taste and presentation. Definitely will visit you guys again.

Conveniently located right outside the airport. What an awesome feeling to land and then come here…read morefor a fantastic coffee (hand made from an espresso machine like all coffees we found in Sydney) and some tasty pies. These weren't the best pies we had in Sydney / New Zealand, but they were very tasty. They were full of filling, and the pasty was quite flaky. We tried a variety including a sausage roll, lamb, and steak. It was great they open early since we had a flight that landed just past 7am. Service was great (we honestly found this to be the case for pretty much every place we went to). Prices seemed reasonable as well. It looks like Patchett's caters to a lot of places. While we were there, they had a small flow of people going into their store front. As a bonus, they have access to a private, clean, (but small) bathroom. Do yourself a favor and give them a try!

Delicious pies and coffee! I wished we had freshly made, savory pies in America. I stayed right…read moreacross the street and visited at least three times while I was there. I got their sausage roll, curry beef pie, and the spinach and mushrooms pastry. All hot and delicious. Of all the the three the curry meat pie was my favorite! Plenty of seating inside and the staff were friendly! Miss this place already.

Very fresh and delicious vegetarian summer rolls with a great sauce. My husband enjoyed his salt…read moreand pepper shrimp and veggie pho very much!!!! Our biggiest gratitude for the owner at this restaurant to wait on us until after hours because we had a long day driving around the wrong (for us Americans) side of the road all day trying to figure out where to park. They didn't rush us out or acted like we are nuisance after hours and the food was made property not in haste:)) So, we went back the next day with my brother and niece and all of us enjoyed what they ordered!!

Mr. Nam is a Vietnamese restaurant serving up Vietnamese food and drinks in Sydney, Australia close…read moreto the Airport. We decided to get some food before a long day of exploring the beautiful city of Sydney and ended up here for pho and a rice plate. The restaurant offers many dishes such as noodle soups, banh xeo, and your traditional rice plates. We went ahead and placed our order with the cashier and found a seat. The food came out fairly quick and i couldnt wait to dive in. The first thing I noticed was the pho broth to noodles ratio was overhelming. I personally think there was just way to much broth for that size of bowl. The noodles were your flat type and they were cooked perfectly to the tooth. The broth was okay and all of the aromatics of the cinnamon, star anise, and cloves were easily noticed. I went ahead and topped it off with crisp bean sprouts, a squirt of a juicy lemon wedge, and Thai basil. The next dish I ate was the grilled pork chop with rice. The dish looked beautifully presented along with the side salad which consisted of green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and shredded carrots. The star of the show was the fried egg on top of the grilled pork chop. The egg was perfectly cooked and was oozing when I sliced into it to eat the pork. The pork chop had noticably large amounts of fresh lemon grass marinated into the meat which was a great thing. The pork was mainly bone vice meat on the slab they gave me. The rice was soft and moist and tasted great with the fish sauce poured everywhere. Mr. Nam is a great Vietnamese restaurant to go and eat some quick but yet tasty food. Prices were decent and customer service was provided with a smile.

Waited more than an hour for 2 sliders and waiters were taking a smoke break in the back while food…read morewas waiting on a counter. Absolutely unprofessional stuff.

Biggles Cafe and bar is located in the Holiday Inn hotel on Airport Road in the lovely city of…read moreSydney, Australia! The cafe and bar are on the first floor, just right of the entrance. The bar has plenty of seats and tables to sit at. We came in for drinks and food prior to checking into our room. We decided to go with the biggles, all beef hamburger and steak fries, and also the fried calamari. For drinks, we had local Australian draft beer. The bartender was nice and welcoming and answered any questions we had. The burger and calamari came out fairly quick, and the bell was rung to pick up our order. The burger was juicy and flavorful, and the cheese melted perfectly. The bread was big and beautiful and slightly toasted while the fries were golden brown. They had a condiment pump dispenser pumping out tomato sauce or also know and ketchup with mayonnaise and BBQ sauce. The calamari wasn't the greatest, but the sweet and sour sauce was quite tasty. Overall, it was a great place inside a hotel to have drinks and sit back and relax after a long day in Sydney. The food and customer service were on point, and I'll gladly come here again if ever in the area.