Sydney's Best Underground Bars That Are Actually Underground
From a hidden speakeasy to a bustle live music establishment and a viking-themed carvery.
Sydney's Best Underground Bars That Are Actually Underground
Sometimes to escape the hustle and bustle of Sydney you have to head underground. Luckily, Sydney has no shortage of standout subterranean bars boasting moody lighting and top-notch drinks lists — and there's one for every occasion.
Feel like munching on a fried chicken burger from Butter while you throw back cognac? Sydney has it. Prefer a lobster roll paired with a bottle of Dom? Got that too.
Good for impressing a date, taking someone from out of town or just for a well-deserved after-work tipple, these are Sydney's best bars hidden under the city.
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Food & DrinkMary's Underground
As well as a full French-style bistro menu, this CBD restaurant from the Mary's crew has a seafood bar and jazz running six night a week.
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Food & DrinkThe Cumberland
This Manly cocktail bar is hidden behind a fridge — with 250 different whiskies, creative cocktails and plenty of snacks.
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Food & DrinkEmployees Only
Visit NYC's world-class cocktail bar's first late-night Australian outpost for cocktails and cabaret.
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Food & DrinkDulcie's Kings Cross
Step into the 1930s at this swish Kings Cross cocktail and cabaret bar.
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Food & DrinkApollonia
This underground cocktail bar is serving up romantic cocktails and plenty of negronis in the basement of Hinchcliff House.
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Food & DrinkZaffi Sydney
The party continues until 4am at this neon-lit cocktail bar and Lebanese restaurant.
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Food & DrinkTiva
You'll find live music four days a week, impressive cocktails and French-inspired eats at this lounge bar below King Street.
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Food & DrinkEau De Vie
Once 13th on the World's 50 Best Bars list, Eau-de-Vie is back with inventive takes of espresso martinis and old fashioneds.
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Food & DrinkPalmer & Co.
A hidden, but well-known, cocktail bar reminiscent of Sydney's notorious past of speakeasies, sly grog and razor gangs.
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Food & DrinkShady Pines Saloon
Come for the free peanuts and daily happy hour, stay for the moose head and bar banter.
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Food & DrinkThe Swinging Cat
A sophisticated homage to New Orleans and its signature drink, the sazerac.
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Food & DrinkRestaurant Hubert
High-class French food in a subterranean space on Bligh Street, where the steak is the stuff of legend.
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Food & DrinkThe Lobo
The moment you step up to the bar, you're made to feel like a real regular at this relaxed yet refined slice of old Cuba.
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Food & DrinkSolera Bar
Barangaroo's new small bar serving up rare Champagne and charcuterie boards.
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Food & DrinkThe Baxter Inn
A cavernous whisky bar where the bartenders know their stuff and good times are at the top of the agenda.
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Food & DrinkGolden Age Cinema and Bar
This revamped screening room and small bar brings a little old-school charm to 'going to the movies'.
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Food & DrinkSoultrap
We take our hats off to this new Surry Hills bar combining fortified wines and feathered fedoras.
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Food & DrinkUncle Ming's
This York Street basement bar is a little bit kitsch and a little bit mysterious.
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Food & DrinkCharlie Parker's
The cosy basement bar at Fred's with exposed sandstone, seasonal cocktails and killer bar snacks.
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Food & DrinkBarrio Cellar
Some of Sydney's best tequila and mezcal cocktails await at the Barrio Chino team's basement bar.
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