the butler

top notch evening. great service and food. worth the effort! the wine list and view is brilliant too. make the trip to potts point. you won't regret it.

this place surprised me with it's tucked away location, it's view is the mesmerising sydney skyline. the combination of indoors and outdoors dining shares unique experiences with exotic themes. it's respect to heritage paired with contemporary dining is wonderful for both small and large parties.

what an exceptional venue, i enjoyed everything about my experience at the butler. staff are super friendly, really efficient, know the menu and make some cool recommendations. food is super tasty, as are the cocktails.i would definitely recommend this venue for a catch up between friends or date night.

sophisticated dining with an unsuspecting, lovely view of the city. we opted for one of the banquet options and were left full and satisfied.

it is a little pricey (coming in at approx $70- $80pp if you order 2 - 4 dishes), but given the location, the view, the wine offerings and the quality of the food, you do get what you pay for. i would highly recommend this place if you're looking for a classy lunch or dinner experience with girlfriends or even with the family.

a big shout out goes to the kingfish carpaccio and the pork shoulder- these were fantastic dishes packed with flavour and finesse that went so well with the $78 bottle of fancy french pinot grigio they had on offer. (i am in no way shape or form a wine connoisseur)

i am tempted to come back here for any special occasion that comes up!

discovered this restaurant when looking for nice views to dine at sydney. really friendly staff with food that has the value for money. i recommend getting the prawns and the organic red wine :)

i loved the atmosphere of the butler, so bright and up lifting. service was great, all staff were really friendly. food was tasty, enjoyed the share plates which meant we could try a bit of everything. this place is great with a group. it's pretty pricey but worth it! when booking i requested a table outside, and unfortunately was seated inside, which was still lovely! but would of loved to be outside with the view of the city. we celebrated my birthday there, and it made it very special and even gave me a candle for my cake.

we had an enjoyable long lunch here, but it wasn't without its issues. on the positive side, it's a beautiful room and setting, the food was very good, as were the drinks. it was let down by the service which, though friendly, was very inconsistent. the greeting made us feel immediately welcome but after being seated it was another 20 minutes before we had a drink in front of us, after struggling to get anyone to pay any attention to us.

the food was great but, as pointed out by others, the tiny plates make eating tricky. more irritating was that out sides arrived with the last of our dishes, which meant we didn't feel like eating half of them.

so, a good meal that fell short of great.

yeah, it's a good place to eat and you probably won't be disappointed, but you also won't walk out of there thinking, "that was great!"  the service is fine, the room is fine and the food is fine. but for the price, there are better places around the area.

had a very lovely lunch at the butler. the food, ambience and view are amazing - we ended up ordering the $55/pp butler's banquet. all the dishes were really good and everyone was quite full after the meal. i particularly enjoyed the fried polenta with gruyère and prawn gumbo with quinoa. we also had a few cocktails with lunch and all were quite enjoyable. i'm not much of an alcohol drinker but i especially loved the jugs of grandma's vase and ladies who lunch which were light and refreshing. recommend this little gem of a place for birthday's and i even saw a party of 10 having a hens lunch together which is a very lovely idea.

had dinner at the butler on sunday night and was both impressed and disappointed all at the same time. the service was friendly, the decor was brilliant and the food was very tasty however there were a number of issues. our entrees and mains all come out at the same time so not only did we not have enough room on our table for all the dishes but our mains got cold whilst we are our starters. on top of that the serving plates we were given were absolutely minuscule. made eating quite the challenge. in addition to that a number of our dishes were missing components which then took an eternity to be rectified.

perfect place for a friday afternoon drink... superb view with cocktail jug... doing as it should be :)

worth checking out if your in the cross

perfect for a romantic, casual dinner or for an indulgent sunday afternoon. the garden décor was perfect with a stunning backdrop of great city views. the perfect combination of simple french dining with nice drinks on the side, the butler brought back warming memories of my summer spent in france a couple of years ago. if anyone wants to dine here, i would also recommend taking some french classes! i learnt with this school bit.ly/frenchclassez and thought they were fantastic. i have been learning french ever since my trip last summer and it has definitely taught me more than i thought within a year!

the lure of the butler is actually neither the cocktails, nor the food, but that sundrenched patio; bang on the perfect place to while away a sydney afternoon. book early to get a coveted outside table, set under the hanging plants, and time your visit for an hour shy of sunset.you’ll drown in golden light as the last rays of sun cut through the city skyline. whet your lips on grandma’s vase ($35/jug) – the rather twee name is perhaps a nod to camomile, joined by a showering of citrus, beefeater gin, and enough aperol to keep it from being insipid.by way of drinking snacks there are soffritto croquettes ($15/4) with a fairly uninspiring (and not particularly spicy) tomato relish; and sausage rolls ($12) that eat more like pastry-wrapped lyonnaise pork snags.my dining companion wishes they had used more fat. call me a heathen, but i wish i could switch out the pineapple relish for good, old-fashioned tomato sauce. we’re all more enamoured with

great bar tucked away in potts point. saw this bar mentioned in a must do bar in sydney review and was not disappointed. first off the bar itself is well decked out and has an amazing view of the city. we got there for sunset and it was amazing. the service was friendly and efficient, no complaints there. we just had some snacks and drinks and everything was great. we shared the polenta, croquettes, oysters and rosemary and garlic flatbread. the oysters were so creamy and the flatbread was sooo good, nothing like i have ever had before. to finish off our sunday session i had the air france cocktail, so impressed. it was smooth and really delightful, highly recommend.

for some, valentine's day was a day to celebrate love with their partners, for others it was a day to bask or bemoan of their singledom, for me it was a day to enjoy a lazy sunday session with some girlfriends.

the butler has been on my hitlist for some time, mostly for its airy garden decor. in searching for an appropriate galentine's lunch spot, the butler stood out as a girly upmarket bar and restaurant, which would be perfect for knocking back some drinks and food.

although the butler was hosting a valentine's day menu, it only came into effect for dinner and so lunchtime was still thankfully an a la carte affair. we didn't book and instead just showed up, which led to a seating at the bar rather than on the greeny balcony but as a tradeoff, we got to watch the bartenders do their thing.

we started off with drinks. the cocktail list is a decent length with drinks sure to please most crowds, from sweet and fruity to sour and strong. in line with its botany theme, there are a lot of fresh fruity cocktails and i opted for the hello vera, which had a nice kick of alcohol parred back with a girly sweetness that made it easier to drink.

the food menu is french-inspired and in contemporary dining style, is designed to share. we were mainly ordering for vee and myself since ah had already eaten prior to coming. straight up, there was not a single thing that we ordered that was bad. each dish that arrived was better than the last.

the ocean trout was subtle and tender, gaining some flavour from the tasty butter that it was served with. sometimes greens can appear more as an after-thought rather than a carefully-considered complement but that was not the case in this instance. in this case, the warm shredded salad paired well with the ocean trout, both matched in their delicate flavour and texture.

the lamb rump was an absolute winner in both of our eyes. the lamb was beautifully cooked, medium and just tender enough that it fell apart with our knives. i could have eaten more of the lamb alone. it was very juicy and flavoursome, exactly the way meat should be. again, the accompaniments went well with the main element, with the wheat providing some carbs to help fill us up and the pomegranate seeds giving it a slightly sweet taste. i can only sing praises for this dish.

even the sides were good! admittedly, the salad was never going to be bad if the starring vegie was sweet potato. this was quite a simple salad but it was moreish, and the same goes for the shoestring french fries. they weren't evenly crispy and crunchy but the mayo made up for this and we polished them off with a lick of our salty fingers.

overall, lunch wasn't a cheap meal but i certainly have no regrets about it. my only complaint is that the service was extremely slow, even when the restaurant wasn't that packed. we waited a long time for our dishes and it was hard trying to gain the attention of a waiter to ask for the bill, even though there were a group of them milling around at the time. i would recommend going to the butler if you are looking for a tasty meal in an upmarket restaurant with relaxing oasis vibe but expect some slow service and adjust your standards/time accordingly.