sixpenny

a must try fine dining in sydney. need to book in advance to get a table, the food and service was fantastic

wasn't sure what to expect of this place as it was a first time visit with a friend who lives locally but was pleasantly surprised. a degustation menu with either 6 or 8 courses. we chose the 8 course menu. it's a bit heavy on the seafood but go on the journey with an open mind and you will be richly rewarded. the flavours had beautiful contrast from dish to dish and were surprisingly complex. but the highlight of the meal would have to be the chuck tail. it was brilliant. definitely coming back with the family next time!

service was exemplary and we were taken such good care of.
food was good, however it was heavily influenced by various seafood. having had similar experience at seibo, i had specifically asked to temper their menu. however, that request was overlooked and it ended up in me having a rather unpleasant confrontation with two of the five main courses! starters and desserts were really good and innovative. drinks menu is exhaustive. i am going for 3 stars much against my wishes but that should be motivation enough for improvising.

service is excellent. very attentive to details and superb friendly staff.
food could be better given the three hats rating and the price. best dish is the house made bread which is delicious. need more thoughts for the dessert, not a good idea to serve icecream in a cold winter.
overall service is 10*
food is average.

made a booking one month beforehand secured a lunch on sunday, worth the wait. amazing food reasonable price for a 3 hats restaurant. on top of the standard 7 courses, i was asked if i would to have their 2 extra dishes which were the caviars and duck breast, i took both and they all tasted good. wine pairing is recommended here as it will take nearly 4 hours for the lunch.

t was a much anticipated event that we looked forward to attending. snd it certainly disappoint. from the moment we walked in we were so well treated. the service was nothing but exceptional. the food was so creative in its presentation and all the staff including the actual chefs who bring their food to you and explain it so well,combined with the very friendly wait staff. the wine service was also exceptional,you dont need to be a full on wine buff but the sommelier was extremely pleasant and ha pop py to explain wines that would best suit the deliscous food presented..a must attend restaurant.

this small and cosy restaurant in the inner west of sydney has no menu. you sit back and you are served small plates and then bigger plates. they call it a ‘tasting menu’. the food is creative, using seasonal australian produce. it’s definitely contemporary cuisine. i love that they support the small suppliers, the smaller farmers and fishermen. it’s definitely an experience eating at sixpenny. #sixpenny

what a wonderful experience at sixpenny tonight. recently rewarded 3 hats from the sydney good food guide. a small restaurant in a little suburb of stanmore but the food was certainly big and delicious! particularly fond of the snacks in the beginning, the grouper dish was sensational and the last savoury dish being the beef was divine. dessert was a freeze dried raspberry custard in strawberry soup and that was so refreshing after 5 courses and some wine. last dessert was a coconut ice-cream surrounded by chocolate caramel. a little rich but still quite delightful. i will definitely be going back!

superb food and service. the colours, flavours, textures - nothing to fault. seven courses, plus 2 chef’s bonus courses, of heaven. great place for a special occasion. and i live that it’s unpretentious fine dining.

of course we picked sixpenny based on the smh 3 hat rating. so that tends to raise expectations.

letting ourselves in, we were greeted and shown our table. the room is pared back and mercifully quiet, unlike a lot of sydney places.

so the 7 course menu frankly had some low spots. the fish was lost in the peas, the beef was frankly not tender and cheese overpowered a
couple of the other courses.

on the whole the food is conservatively presented and the taste is fine without being exceptional.

the final bill with 8-10 drinks between four was $860.

you may not expect a restaurant of the year and fine diner like sixpenny in sleepy suburban stanmore & the surprise does not end at the door. walking into this modern, minimalist yet inviting space you feel immediately welcome & warm. every single member of the staff are professional yet friendly with the right amount of humour, chattiness, professionalism and knowledge. the wine list offers some familiar and lots of interesting drinks and each recommendation and description was spot on. so definitely trust the sommeliers and staff on the wine front. and the food is no exception - simple, elegant, clean, packed with flavour yet so refined and beautiful. you can choose between the 6 or 8 course degustation although from 2019 there will be only one menu of 7 courses. the kitchen staff bring the dishes to your table and it is a lovely concept and being able to see and speak to the people behind the beautiful food. the 3 amuse bouche definitely awakens the palate and is light and tasty especially the cheese gougeres which i would happy to eat more of! the stand out dishes for me was the venison tartare, swordfish which i am not usually a fan of as it is often tough and overcooked, but here it is tender & sweet. the pork belly was superb with the skin akin to breaking the top of a creme brulee. then the beef... so tender, full of umami flavour & the sticky, port like jus was perfect. dessert looks simple but dont let that deceive you. its creamy yet refreshing and not heavy. the white chocolate dessert with poor man's orange particularly good especially the caramelised white chocolate. a wonderful, special restaurant that is well rounded with service, ambience and food.

tbh, this restaurant is amazing. i really can’t fault it. i loved everything about it. it’s a small cosy dim lit restaurant that is perfect for a date night out. i just want to start off with how amazing the customer service is. the wait staff are very polite and knowledgeable and seem very passionate about the food being served.

i decided to go with the 8 course menu for $155 dollars per person. very standard price for a dine dining place. i do think that this place was worth every penny. the food here is amazing and definitely worth the visit.

first thing first, the appetisers. like always, three appetisers were placed on the table. pickled apple with rose geranium. i think originally it was supposed to be pickled cucumber but i’m not a huge fan of cucumber so they changed it to apple. the apple had a sour hit to it and was a delight to eat. next i had the green tomato and cheese gougeres. yummmmm!!! the cheese melts in your mouth, it was so delicious, i could eat another 10! the waiter recommend that i ate the pumpkin scallop last because it was still hot! and boy was it hot. it was like a donut with pumpkin inside. the batter was crunchy and oily, in a good way tho, and the pumpkin inside was gooey and sweet. definitely warmed my heart. a great start!

anything with crab and i’m down! the presentation doesn’t give away much but the next dish was hand picked spanner crab with clam butter and yarra valley salmon roe. it was like a like a little treasure hunt. if you keep digging you’ll find the gold, in this case, the spanner crab. i loved the crab it was tender and the roe gave it a nice hit of salt. such a cleaver little dish!

i love venison and i love a good tartare, so the next dish was made for me. the venison tartare with artichoke and cheese was scrumptious. i liked the gamey and musky flavour of the venison against the cheese. it was definitely a stand out dish for me.

in highschool, we had something called scallop potatos and the next dish reminded me so much of that. confit potato with oyster and raw mushrooms. if i read it on the menu, i wouldn’t appeal to me as much. only because where’s the damn protein?? but let me tell you all something, forget the protein, this dish was sooooo good. the potatoes was in a cream soft texture and full of flavour. to be honest, if you hate mushroom, this dish will make you love mushrooms. the mushrooms were so light and worked so well with this potato. really got me salivating for more.

they served me to kinds of bread, one of them was a unique coffee flavoured bread which i really enjoyed! i’ve never had coffee flavoured bread!

first seafood dish of the night, the swordfish with green chard and salted red cabbage. loved this dish. let me start by saying that the presentation of this dish was quite interesting. it had foam surrounding the whole dish. reminded me a lot of the foam in the sea. on to the fish, the fish was cooked perfectly. it was flakey and tender and everything a beautifully cooked fish should be. dig a little deeper, and there was the salted red cabbage which tied together the whole dish.

the winner of the best dish of the night goes to this beauty, the ranger valley chuck tail with mushroom and masala. yummmmmmmmm! the meat just was sooooo good. i can’t explain how juicy and tender this was and the sauce went perfectly with the beef. it was cooked to perfection and i wish i had maybe another 10 of those. it was also paired with a beautifully dressed salad.

by this time, i was soo full. on to desserts. i received a nice palate cleanser, mead vinegar custard with frozen raspberry and strawberry consommé. it was nice and refreshing. i liked the combination of the custard and the tastiness of the raspberry and strawberries. next i had the white chocolate with caramelised white chocolate and poor man’s orange. very delicious especially the contract between the orange and the caramelised white chocolate. last but not least, the cocoa ice cream with chocolate caramel and puffed buckwheat. this was definitely more of a richer and sweater dessert, nonetheless, it was a delight to eat.

overall, i really enjoyed my experienced here. the food was to die and i would love to come back! :) if you love fine dining then you would definitely enjoy this place.

the good - excellent service, and was nice to have the chef of each dish bring it out. quite and cozy environment. were able to accomodate vegetarian requirements.

the bad - pretty basic food, nothing was really creative (especially for the price, many other good tasting menu options out there). the dishes were not so tasty that you would want to come back for more. the desert was too sweet for my liking.

the year was 2007; and my first introduction to daniel puskas came in a little newtown restaurant called oscillate wildly. i ate a denver (trimmed and deboned) leg of venison with pumpkin puree and chocolate soil that haunted me for years. despite knowing this talented chef graduated to sixpenny in stanmore in 2012, i held off going for no reason other than growing weariness with degustation dinners; both with the oft-excessive amount of food and the time they take to orchestrate. and so it was that a decade – even more – came to pass before i found myself in a charming parlour dining room eating my second dan puskas dinner. this time it's a 6-course ($125/person) affair where i am but one of twenty diners arranged at lustrous wooden tables encircling a wooden service hutch where gleaming glasses hang in wait. a flurry of snacks lands almost immediately...

six penny one of the modern australian fine dining restaurants. two hatted restaurant by daniel puskas. located in a small house looking restaurant that you would never expect.

there is a six course and eight course menu. of course every single dish was just outstanding. even though the dishes wasn’t all fancy looking like most fine dining restaurants “all the useless edible flowers”. the flavor, the taste was amazing. that’s how i think fine dining should be. sometimes it’s not all about the looks but focus of the flavors first in which chef daniel did a fantastic job.

overall it was a cozy restaurant with top notch service. i would definitely go again.

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