Daniel's Restaurant and Bar
Editorial
Sydney's CBD is a welcome port for steakhouses owing to the daily shipment of business people in want of a substantial meal to soak up their alcohol-fuelled lunches. Daniel's is just the place - equipped with a separate bar to ease a wait for a table, and a pleasing wine list once you are seated. The entrees are hard to pass up with offerings such as chilli salt calamari with lime aioli and snow pea sprouts or Gympie goat's cheese salad served with roasted beetroot and crisp pastry wafers. Main courses don't muck around; the oven-roasted lamb rump is plump and butter soft, and the twice-cooked spatchcock is a tad finicky to eat but divine with the chilli tomato jam.
Like any restaurant catering to the business crowd Daniel's is only open weekdays, with diners being forced to choose between the busy lunchtime service or calling in after 5.30pm for a less hurried dinner. Should you choose the latter, the soft centred chocolate fondant served with a vanilla anglaise and a crushed hazelnut praline is a rich dessert worth sharing at dinner's end. Though if you opt for the former and have to return to work, the trio of gelato and an espresso is the way to end your meal and still keep your wits about you.
Jennifer Miller, May 2007
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