Old Mate's Place
Cocktail bar
A fourth-floor bar on Clarence Street with timber, leather booths and a rooftop terrace.
📍 level 4/199 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000
Rooftops and views: 4 bars
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Dean & Nancy on 22
Cocktail bar
A 22nd-floor bar on Hunter Street inspired by mid-century hotel bars, with classic cocktails, food and city views.
📍 2 Hunter St, Sydney NSW 2000
Opera Bar
Waterfront bar
The big open-air bar on the Opera House's lower concourse, with views of the harbour and the bridge, food and cocktails.
📍 Sydney Opera House, Lower Concourse Level, Sydney NSW 2000
Zephyr
Rooftop bar
A rooftop bar on level 12 of the Hyatt Regency on Sussex Street, with harbour views and sharing plates.
📍 Level 12/161 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000
Map: rooftops and views
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Your questions
What are the best rooftop bars in Sydney?
Start with Old Mate's Place, Dean & Nancy on 22, Opera Bar and Zephyr. Our full list has 4 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Now we're bringing it to Australia. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research, Google Maps and trusted local guides, ahead of bringing Cocktail Week to Sydney.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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