Have you got an amazing team who are all on the nice list this year? Stars and angels aren’t just tree-toppers—sometimes they’re the fabulous folks who make up your work team, family, or friendship group, so treat them to a sensational end-of-year shindig at one of Sydney/Eora's best venues for an end-of-year shindig.
For something a little bit different this year, enjoy bars, breweries, fine dining, and fun activities at the best Christmas party venues in Sydney.
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El Primo Sanchez
27-33 Oxford Street, Paddington
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Swap the function for a fiesta at El Primo Sanchez, a colourful, culinary piñata in Paddington. As sure as everyone will yell “Tequila!” after hearing a certain sax riff, you’re sure to enjoy the Mexican street food-inspired menu, fruity cocktails, and extensive tequila and mezcal offerings. Vibrant and unexpected, tacos and tapas are the missing ingredients to make your navidad extra feliz.
Insider Intel
- Did we mention the pint-sized karaoke room, DJ booth, dance floor, and disco balls? The perfect setting for a festive fiesta.
The Dolphin
412 Crown Street, Surry Hills
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Christmas at The Dolphin is your answer to a luxe yet laid-back work ‘do. Woodfired pizzas, share plates, and creative cocktails are the order of the day at the Surry Hills institution. Casual group bookings are available, as well as exclusive hire of the various spaces—and nothing beats people watching from the picnic benches, streetside.
Insider intel
- Enjoy private bar access in the Lounge, a set banquet menu in the Dining Room or, if you have a big team to spoil, hire the whole venue for up to 500 people to spread the seasonal cheer across all five bars set over three levels.
Pool Bar At Oxford House
21 Oxford Street, Paddington
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With daylight savings extending our time in the sun, why not make the most of it at the Oxford House Pool Bar. Let your guests lounge poolside, soaking up the sun, cocktails, and light bites in the alfresco area. Catering to 130 guests standing, or 50 for a seated soirée, your team will feel sunned, satiated, and spoiled rotten.
Insider intel
- The venue is ready to rock with audio-visual equipment, and DJ hire is available to keep things lively all night long.
Coogee Pavilion
Level 3/169 Dolphin Street, Coogee
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Featuring four indoor and outdoor bars, this enormous rooftop at Coogee Pavilion is perfect for soaking up the end-of-year atmosphere. Here your team can enjoy views of the iconic Coogee Beach, cocktail in hand, as you cheers to summer and another successful year.
Insider intel
- With room for up to 100 seated or 600 standing, this spot is great for larger teams, but you can book more intimate spaces for smaller groups.
Icebergs Dining Room And Bar
1 Notts Avenue, Bondi Beach
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Enjoy an Italian-inspired menu and breathtaking views at Sydney's ultimate beachside beauty, Icebergs. The venue’s versatile event spaces can accommodate small bookings or larger groups of up to 250 guests, for seated, plated, or cocktail events.ic
Besides the incredible food from award-winning chef Alex Prichard, a tailored event experience, and perfectly curated wine and cocktail lists, the real star of the show is the panoramic seaside vista which will make the problems of the year simply float away with the tides.
Insider intel
- Why not splurge and book their yacht experience, exclusive and bespoke dining aboard the Sirenuse luxury super yacht. Your guests can look forward to enjoying the quintessential Icebergs menu, all while cruising the stunning waters of Sydney Harbour—it'll be a Christmas Party they certainly won't forget.
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Taphouse
122 Flinders Street, Darlinghurst
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Over three floors, the recently reopened Taphouse has plenty of cool and casual options available for your Christmas party 'do. Downstairs, the public bar can accommodate 70 people seated or 100 people for a cocktail-style event.
The first floor features a private bar and TV screen, and the sunny rooftop space, now splashed in bright blue and white, has a retractable roof and roaming canapés and shared platters available for large groups and events. The Cantonese-inspired menu features a $65 per person banquet menu loaded with steamed pork and prawn siu mai, sweet and sour pork, and steamed lava custard buns.
Insider intel
- In true Irish pub fashion, the Taphouse serves up a full Chinese—spice bags included.
Three Blue Ducks
1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery
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Trade three wise men for Three Blue Ducks this Christmas, the Rosebery restaurant with an Argentinian grill, woodfired oven, and charcoal pits, championing sustainably farmed produce. But meat isn’t the only thing on the menu—you’ll find plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options, so whether you go for the Holiday Feast, Ultimate Holiday Feast, or even a breakfast menu, everyone will be catered for.
Insider intel
- Add on a 2 hour beverage package to keep the bottles and bubbles flowing.
Best Venues In Sydney CBD
Bar 83 At Sydney Tower
Level 4/108 Market Street, Sydney CBD
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Rise above the end-of-year brain fog…way above. Congratulate your team for reaching new heights this year by taking them to Bar 83 at Sydney Tower, one of the best bars in Sydney's CBD. High above the city and with undoubtedly the best view in town, enjoy a tailored event experience—think a bespoke selection of cocktails and canapés, a sky-high dancefloor, and retro furnishings to make this year’s worries a thing of the past.
Insider intel
- Here are the last numbers you need to crunch for the year: get exclusive hire for groups of 51 to 170, for a 260-degree view of the city and 100% great vibes. Those numbers look pretty good to us.
a’Mare
Crown Sydney, Level 1/1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo
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Tapping into the nostalgia for his childhood in Italy, award-winning chef Alessandro Pavoni has composed a menu at a'Mare that champions seasonal Australian produce, Italian ingredients, and a beautiful story told through traditional foods with a twist. Enjoy focaccia, antipasti, pastas, and, of course, seafood, in glamorous surrounds with a showstopping harbour view. Smaller groups of up to 10 will enjoy the intimate Wine Room, and with six rooms for exclusive booking, you can cater to anywhere from 10 to 290 guests.
Insider intel
- Personalised menus can be created for your event, and there are plenty of food and beverage packages to suit your occasion.
ESQ
QVB, Shop 1- 4 Level 2/455 George Street, Sydney CBD
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Take your secret Santa behind the secret door of ESQ, a prohibition-style speakeasy with opulent vintage flair. Jingle bells meet Jazz Age bliss when you sequester yourselves in one of the semi-private event spaces, suitable for up to 30 guests, for canapés or a plated menu. Exclusive hire of the venue for 100 seated guests or 140 cocktail-style will allow you to party like it’s 1929.
Insider intel
- This is definitely the place to splurge on the deluxe beverage package, to give your team the full prohibition experience.
QT Sydney
49 Market Street, Sydney CBD
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With seven event spaces and two standout restaurants, the fab QT Sydney Hotel has you covered for any kind of Christmas party. Among the many options, go for something fun and different this year—like the screening room and reel bar with a covert entrance off Market Street, the intimate late-night Gilt Lounge cocktail bar, or the cute and quirky "Pink Room" for up to 10 guests.
Insider intel
- Of course, Qt Sydney also features the award-winning steakhouse Gowings and the newly opened French-inspired Parlour restaurant.
Teahouse
Crown Sydney, Level 3/1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo
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Treat your team to a tea party like no other at Baragaroo’s Teahouse. Decked out with four birdcages that seat up to 16 people, as well as an outdoor terrace available for hire, your guests will relish in decadent surrounds and plush furnishings so comfy they’ll want to perch there all night. Set menus take the guesswork out of what to pick from the lush list of Japanese and Cantonese-inspired light bites.
Insider intel
- The bespoke cocktail list brimming with fan favourites, and the world-class champagne selection and extensive range of specialty teas will give everyone something to sing about.
Maydanoz
1/50 Carrington Street, Sydney CBD
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Maydanoz does casual dining inspired by traditional Turkish meze bars, and will have everyone covered this Chrissy—including your vegetarian workmates. Vegetables are the centerpiece of the seasonal-driven dishes in this Aegean coastal-inspired restaurant.
Whatever your pleasure, Maydanoz executive chef Arman Uz creates tailor-made menus according to the event brief. Feast or canapé packages can be enjoyed in private, semi-private, or alfresco seating with up to 62 guests, or book the whole venue for groups of up to 100.
Insider intel
- The Maydanoz feast will keep the good times flowing, offering four mouth-watering courses and two or three-hour beverage packages.
Best Venues In Sydney's West
Baba's Place
20 Sloane Street, Marrickville
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What better way to celebrate Christmas (Aussie-style) than nostalgic, family-style dishes inspired by the migrant experience in Western Sydney. As you walk in through the warehouse roller door of Baba's Place, you'll see the ornately framed art hanging salon-style, ornate rugs, lace tablecloths, and armchairs that belong in your nan's house.
With dishes like house-made foccaccia with dad's coldpress olive oil, half a barbeque chook and dark choclate panna cotta with lemon curd and golden kiwi, you're bound to knock the socks off the team. Baba's is available to book for both functions and exclusive location hire, however big your party may be—come for the food, stay for the stories and leave by peeling yourself off Baba’s plastic-covered furniture.
Insider intel
- This spot is one of the best restaurants in Sydney's inner west—and Marrickville is stacked with things to do for afters.
Maniax
9-11 Jabez Street, Marrickville
Did you send a few too many “as per my last email”s this year? Take out your frustration at Maniax by sending an attachment—an axe, at a wall. Check out their three epic AXE-mas packages that have more inclusions than you can hurl an axe at.
Insider intel
- Antipasto, pizzas, beers, and wines serve as sides to axe-throwing antics, and the venue can host groups of 8 to 150. So go and chuck an axe at a wall with your colleagues, to make sure it’s reattached for your convenience.
Rising Sun Workshop
1C Whateley Street, Newtown
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Christmas party in a motorcycle workshop that doubles as a friendly neighbourhood ramen restaurant? It doesn't get much more Inner West than that.
Beloved Newtwon institution Rising Sun Workshop is now taking bookings for the Christmas period, with set menus of izakaya-style snacks (think gyoza, a blood orange gochu sashimi, yakitori, pork belly korroke, and more).
Insider intel
- Drinks packages are also available starting from $40 per person, and you can also go a la carte if that's more your vibe.
Oribu
215 Church Street, Parramatta
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In the Heritage Precinct you’ll find Oribu, one of the best restaurants in Parramatta. Grazing tables and set menus are available or enjoy an elevated dining experience with the chef's table omakase option. The phrase means “I leave it up to you”, and it does exactly that. Esteemed Head Chef, Harry Cho, will curate a dining experience where every course is a surprise, lovingly crafted with your tastes and requirements front of mind.
Insider intel
- The set menu has received just as much care, and the considered courses complement each other, providing a perfect sampling of the meticulously created Japanese delights.
Best Venues In Sydney's North
The Greens
50 Ridge Street, North Sydney
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If anyone in the office got on your nerves this year and really needs to go and touch some grass, then boy, do we have news for you. Put your pedicure to good use with barefoot bowls at The Greens North Sydney. The Greens team will take care of all the deets, just show up, ditch the shoes, and lose the blues for a playful party with all the trimmings.
Insider intel
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With options for food stations, a four-course table share, or a more casual "Burgers & Bowls", you can incorporate a fabulous feed while getting your team away from the screen and out on the green.
The Surf Deck
1064 Pittwater Road, Collaroy
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On the Northern Beaches, this surfside Merivale venue has you covered with ocean views and Tiki-style cocktails. Perfect for welcoming in the summer holidays, the menu at The Surf Deck includes scallop sashimi tostadas, beer-battered fish and chips, jerk spatchcock, and a list of light and bright pizzas too. You can always head next door to The Collaroy if cosy pub vibes are more your scene.
Insider intel
- Book for up to 35 or lock away the whole venue for your team—The Surf Deck has capacity for 58 seated or 90 for a standing, cocktail-style event.
Bathers' Pavilion
4 The Esplanade, Balmoral Beach
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Housed in a former beach-changing shed, the heritage-listed Bathers' Pavilion is an iconic establishment for fine dining, backdropped by Sydney's picturesque Balmoral Beach. The ideal spot to take a breather after the events of the year (preferably with a glass of bubbles in hand), Bathers' has capacity for 100 seated guests, or 200 cocktail. This one is on the boujee side, with canapés starting at $89 per person—but we reckon it's worth it.
Insider intel
- An event here offers exclusive access to their sought-after terrace, for drinks and canapés overlooking the ocean.
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