Portside Sydney Opera House

$50 to pay for minimum entry are you kidding me. Too gentrified. Saw some chinese businessmen there and got the picture. They sure are pushing out the poorer people today yet they fly the aboriginal flag to look at on the bridge for superficial virtue signalling. This is right outside the arts where many struggling artists come to perform and now being shown the door because we aren't wearing suits. I was told there were only sandwiches there, maybe she was being kind because she may have felt i couldn't afford a hot meal there with their high prices.

A dining experience is never good if you feel like the menu $ are misleading. We sat down ordered a few small plates to share with drinks, the waitress asked if we would order anything else and I said no that's all we would be getting for the night and she removed the mains cutlery, after we finished everything and asked for the bill she told us her manager said we needed to spend $50 per person and needed to order more food despite us being the only people in the restaurant, not one other table was there. She was polite so I quickly looked all over the menu, the front desk when we walked in and asked her why this rule doesnt exist in writing and why she didnt tell me when we made our table order, she was shy and kept saying sorry its her managers rule, she suggested we order more drinks so we quickly had two more drinks and paid the $80 bill, but this definatley ruined the experience and borderline illegal as there is NO minimum spend in writing anywhere that the staff could show us. For a place that most customers are stopping at before a show I would not recommend.

What you'd expect for a top-end restaurant: Overpriced, small dishes, and pleasant views. Staff were pleasant, and service was decent considering the crowd. The cheese platter was lovely, and the potato gnocchi was basically Mac'N'Cheese for upperclassmen. Zucchini stack was about the size of a Rubik cube, and deconstructed cheesecake was decent. With a couple of beers, $100 all up.