The Best Private Dining Rooms In Sydney For Special Occasions
Sydney/Eora is endowed with world-class restaurants—but sometimes special occasions call for a little more exclusivity.
At Urban List, we love a party (especially when fantastic food and drinks are involved), so we’ve collected the best private dining rooms in Sydney to consider booking for your next birthday celebration, milestone event, corporate luncheon, or just-because dinner party.
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Sydney’s Best Private Dining Rooms With A View
Flaminia
61 Macquarie Street, Sydney CBD
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Giovanni Pilu and Marilyn Annecchini have spent more than twenty years building the Northern Beaches’ dining story through the lens of Pilu, and now, with their newest venture Flaminia, they bring that expertise to Circular Quay, translating Italy’s port-side spirit onto Sydney’s waterfront.
Dishes carry the spirit of hometowns: spanner crab spaghetti alla bottarga nods to Cagliari, a limoncello baba with whipped mascarpone comes from Napoli, Murray Cod fillet draws on the canals of Venezia, a vongole from Genova, and Mooloolaba king prawns dressed with olives and capers reflect Palermo.
Insider Intel
- The private dining room is the epitome of luxe harbourside dining—guarded by a (free-range) chicken statue.
Pilu At Freshwater
Beachfront, Moore Road, Freshwater
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Pilu at Freshwater is one of those rare gems that boasts a unique combination of spectacular views, an experienced service team and, most importantly, unforgettable regional Italian food.
The secret behind the Northern Beaches restaurant’s long-standing success is in the Sardinian menu created by head chef Giovanni Pilu, which features the freshest ingredients to create an exceptional dining experience. You can privately book the Pilu Pavilion, the Garden Room or the Balcony Room, depending on the size of your group.
Insider Intel
- They also offer a Sardinian experience tasting, with the option to add Sardinian wines.
Icebergs Dining Room And Bar
1 Notts Avenue, Bondi Beach
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A heavyweight of Sydney's special occasion dining scene, Icebergs' private dining room has to be one of the world's most beautiful, with sea-blue elements and all-glass balcony railings that make you feel immersed in the powerful Pacific.
Gather a crowd of up to 40 guests to soak in the glory of the Pacific Room, where you'll start with Maurice Terzini's modern Italian, share-style entrées, before being silver-served mains by a team of dedicated waiters while enjoying drinks from the Pacific Room's own private bar—luxe.
A’Mare
1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo
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Chef Alessandro Pavoni is behind this refined, classic Italian spot in Crown Sydney, which we reckon is one of Sydney’s best Italian restaurants.
With serious polish and impeccable service, a’Mare is a no-brainer for special occasions, with three private dining rooms including The Wine Room (for up to 10 seated), The Library (for up to 12 seated) and The Harbour View Room (for up to 70 seated) and semi-private dining spaces for larger groups—all with beautiful views over Barangaroo.
Insider Intel
- The fresh, seasonal Italian fare on the set menus is well suited to group dining, with elevated snacks and starters, house-made pasta, and a top-tier tiramisu on the cards.
Cibaria
55 North Steyne, Manly
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Another treat from the Pavoni’s, Cibaria is a’Mare’s Northern Beaches cousin, swapping harbour views for sparkly ocean overlooks, with a few function spaces. Next to its wine cellar and ground-floor trattoria sits Vineria, a private dining room seating up to 12 guests.
If you head up a level, you’ll stumble upon Alba, boasting 180-degree views over Manly Beach and enough space for 20 guests. Further up, on Level 2, sits an expansive breezy terrazza with two event spaces that can be booked together or separately for groups between 40 to 200.
Insider Intel
- Like all Pavoni’s venues, expect top-tier Italian fare, including a signature squid ink spaghetti, Moreton Bay bug tossed salad and premium grain-fed Kidman wagyu sirloin, perfectly paired with cocktails, tap beers and plenty of wine.
Pearl Dining
50 Bridge Street, Sydney CBD
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Pairing Sydney Harbour views with a reimagined Cantonese menu, Pearl is an elevated CBD restaurant from the beloved Lotus Dining Group with a few private dining rooms. The secluded Canton Room fits up to 10 seated at a round banquet table with dedicated wait staff, and the semi-private Room 1818 fits up to 6 seated with stunning views of the iconic Harbour Bridge.
Taking inspiration from Hong Kong, Pearl's menu spans the three main elements of dim sum, barbeque and seafood, integrated with plenty of premium ingredients like dry-aged double-roasted Peking duck and Eastern rock lobster.
Insider Intel
- A 200-bottle wine list and signature cocktails round out the offering.
Ursula's
92 Hargrave Street, Paddington
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You've likely seen the stunning interiors of the Paddington restaurants splashed across your Instagram as one of the most beautiful restaurants in Sydney, but Ursula's private dining room, The Blue Room, is so much more than a pretty face.
This excellent Sydney restaurant does private dining perfectly, hosting up to 12 lucky guests in this intimate space for chef-owner Phil Wood's retro, modern, native, and nostalgic Australian cuisine and hand-picked wines.
Insider Intel
- The private balcony with Sydney city views definitely tops it all off.
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Island Radio
Corner of Baptist and Cleveland Streets, Redfern
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In Redfern’s busy Wunderlich Lane, Island Radio offers karaoke, drinks, and private dinner parties upstairs. This groovy hotspot has two exclusive dining spaces with no minimum spend, no deposit and flexible food and drink menus.
Radio Rave is a 14-capacity private room with a semi-private cocktail lounge, karaoke setup (for $10pp) and a gleaming disco ball, or the Jungle Boogie room is trimmed in funky jungle-print wallpaper and enough space for 16 seated.
Insider Intel
- Bold Southeast Asian flavours pack out the set menus, offering skewers through to noodles and larger curries, starting at $79pp. Up the ante and add on a bottomless beverage package from $49pp at lunch (two hours) and $59pp at dinner (three hours).
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Il Baretto
338 Oxford Street, Paddington
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Paddo’s moody Italian restaurant, Il Baretto, has a chic private dining room equipped with its own sound system to play music through. It seats 10–20 guests, and the room hire fee is only $100—which, compared to most places, is an absolute steal.
Insider Intel
- You’ll dine on a group share-style set menu at $80 a head, with the likes of antipasti (olives, focaccia, burrata, prosciutto and fritto misto), and a choice of two pastas such as rigatoni alla carbonara and fusilloni with beef ragu.
Ennui
461 Pitt Street, Haymarket
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For Parisian flair and elegant exclusivity in a heritage-listed building, Ennui offers its upstairs area as a super transformable private dining space to suit any kind of event. The modern, French provincial-style room fits 10–40 guests seated or up to 80 guests for a cocktail soirée.
It has no minimum spend or service charge, making it one of the most affordable private dining rooms in Sydney. Canapé options start at just $30pp, and there are custom food and drink packages available, too.
Insider Intel
- Whatever type of menu you pick, make sure to squeeze in Ennui’s signature duck dish; it’s a crowd favourite for good reason.
Fat Pomelo
16 Ocean Street, Narrabeen
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Over on the Northern Beaches, buzzy Asian fusion joint Fat Pomelo offers a cozy private dining room for groups of 6–10 people. The menu leans to the South East with bao buns, pot-sticker dumplings, aromatic curries, loaded noodle dishes, flavour-packed salads and unique desserts, plus vibrant spritzes, sake, globally made beers and a neat wine list.
Insider Intel
- There’s no extra booking fee, just a $500 minimum spend on food and beverages.
Dear Sainte Éloise
5/29 Orwell Street, Potts Point
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A wine bar celebration sounds pretty schmick, especially at Potts Point’s favourite, Dear Sainte Éloise. The sunken private dining room can be booked for parties of 11-20 guests. During the day, it’s sparkling in sunshine, and by night, it's a candlelit haven that sets the mood all by itself.
The $75pp set menu goes through a series of Euro-style plates, from anchovy brioche dressed in dill pickle slices and chives to steak frites drenched in sauce Bordelaise and a moussey dark chocolate crémeux drizzled in salted caramel and orange. An impressive international and natural collection of wine completes the lineup, with wine pairings, a reduced or full wine list options.
Insider Intel
- There’s no minimum spend (unless you want to go over 2.5 hours), and just a $50 per person deposit, which gets taken off the bill at the end.
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Eleven Barrack
11 Barrack Street, Sydney CBD
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Grand Sydney CBD seafood and steak grill, Eleven Barrack, is already a top-tier special occasion venue, housed inside an 1849-built old bank building on Barrack Street. Its private dining room brings even more glamour and exclusivity into the mix with a sophisticated candlelit setting and its own AV system prepped for light background music, birthday slideshows or corporate showcases.
The fully enclosed space sits alongside the kitchen and fits up to 16 guests seated, with dedicated servers bringing out premium wood-fired meats and seafood, as well as bowls of pasta and hefty salads using the finest local produce.
Insider Intel
- Pair with a world-class wine from top Australian and international winemakers (or a bottle of champers if you’re going big), and celebrate away.
Good Luck Restaurant Lounge
11 Bridge Street, Sydney CBD
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Merivale’s Good Luck Restaurant Lounge stays busy on weeknights, so securing a slice of the space is the ultimate power move. The exclusive private lounge continues the main dining room’s nostalgic Chinatown-inspired maximilist décor, merged with supper-club decadence in the form of a private bar, golden velvet banquette seating, burgundy mid-century chairs and fan-folded napkins lining a long glossy table, fitting up to 18 seated.
You can work with the Good Luck team to create a custom food and drink menu, filling your occasion with live tank seafood and signature croissant waffles, grilled and wok-fried dishes, and luscious noodles.
Insider Intel
- Fun cocktails like the Matcha Kit Kat and Lucky 8 Margarita with 818 reserve tequila—perfect for celebrating something special.
Palazzo Salato
201/203 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD
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Behind heavy leather curtains in Palazzo Salato’s Roman-inspired trattoria, there’s a private dining room ready to host your next big occasion. The up to 22-seated space is dressed to impress with sculptural pendant lights, textural plaster walls and a communal table flanked by cane-backed chairs.
Feast on palatial dishes like beef crudo, flat iron steak, and hand-rolled agnolotti, and cheers to the special event with bottles of bubbly and sought-after wines from a 600-strong collection.
Insider Intel
- Got more people coming? Palazzo Salato also offers standing canapé-style events and full venue takeovers.
Jacksons On George
176 George Street, Sydney CBD
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Once a buzzy late-night CBD pub, Jacksons on George is in a shiny new era as a three-storey precinct with a rooftop bar, a casual public bar, and a Euro-style bistro with a private dining room for up to 26 guests.
Bistro George is a modern Euro eatery and offers two- and three-course set menus packed with favourites like chicken liver parfait with toasted brioche, Berkshire pork scotch with apple cider and sauce charcutiere, and a fig and brown butter frangipane tart served with pink peppercorn and a scoop of vanilla gelato.
Insider Intel
- There’s a 250-strong wine list to pair with your meal, featuring classic European drops as well as exciting new Australian upstarts.
Bopp & Tone
60 Carrington Street, Sydney CBD
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With an opulent, vintage-inspired aesthetic that packs a lot of grandeur, Bopp & Tone is an ideal CBD spot for any celebration, but its private dining room takes things up a notch.
Accommodating up to 28 guests on a convivial long table, the private space's style takes inspiration from Perrier Jouet’s Champagne Belle Époque, with lavish wooden furnishings, gold details and florals aplenty, and it has private access to an outdoor terrace.
Insider Intel
- As for the food, the generous, share-style group dining menus have Mediterranean influences and offer seafood, premium steaks, and satisfying sides your guests will love.
The Collective
12–18 Argyle Street, The Rocks
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The Collective at The Rocks is a vibey multi-venue dining and drinking precinct set among 1800 square metres of heritage sandstone walls and slick CBD ambience. Housed within The Dining Room, The Lounge is a completely private dining retreat for big groups with its own bar and DJ booth. There’s enough space for 60 guests seated or 100 standing, making it ideal for any kind of special event.
Insider Intel
- The kitchen’s usual Australian fine dining offering is on the cards, which means plenty of premium meat, seafood and local produce, as well as an extensive wine list made up of over 1000 drops.
Grana Privato
Hinchcliff House, 5–7 Young Street, Circular Quay
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Grana is a gorgeous Italian eatery located on the ground floor of heritage-listed Hinchcliff House, but if you head upstairs, you’ll find Grana Privato; a whopping 250sqm private dining space spanning the entire top floor.
Kitted out with its own kitchen, private bar, dedicated bartender, and bathrooms, the space accommodates groups of 25-90 people, and the best part is, there’s no venue hire fee (just a minimum spend fee).
Insider Intel
- Dine on Grana’s beloved group set menus for $79pp, $94pp or $119pp, with an added touch of exclusivity, and elevate the experience with a beverage package or upgrades like pre-dinner oysters, charcuterie platters, pasta add-ons, live seafood and butchery options.
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Osteria Di Russo & Russo
158 Enmore Road, Enmore
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Whether you’re an Inner West local dropping in for a midweek bite or an out-of-towner looking for the perfect weekend dining experience, Enmore’s Osteria di Russo & Russo is your answer. But if you’re planning a group celebration and don’t want to share the room with the rest of the dining crowd, they also have private dining spaces made for exactly that.
Tucked away from the main restaurant, you can host 15 to 38 guests, offering an intimate setting that still hums with the warmth of a proper Italian feast. At the centre of it all is the “Tutto Bene” shared menu, a six-course spread built around modern Australian interpretations of Italian classics, changing with the seasons.
Insider Intel
- It’s designed for sharing, but dietary requirements are easily accommodated with individual alternatives, so everyone at the table is well looked after.
Totti's
283 Bondi Road, Bondi and 197 Evans Street, Rozelle
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Totti's might be Sydney's most popular restaurant—and while Bondi's leafy olive tree-lined courtyard and Rozelle's dimly lit dining room are top picks for a long lunch with a group of friends, you'll be sharing that space with droves of other Totti's fans. For a more private affair, Totti's has its own private dining rooms.
Hidden within the courtyard behind a vine-covered wall, Bondi's private dining room is styled like an Italian trattoria and can seat up to 18 guests. Light filters through the seagrass ceiling as the sun sets, and large pendant lights create a warm glow, giving a true European summer feel.
Rozelle's bigger private dining room lies above the main restaurant, complete with its own private bar and enough space to fit 50 people seated or 70 people cocktail-style.
Insider Intel
- You'll have access to Totti's best hits at both venues, including its famous puffed wood-fired bread and saucy pastas.
Woodcut
Crown Sydney, Level 1/1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo
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Crown Sydney is home to many special occasion-worthy venues, including Woodcut; a luxe restaurant where wood-fired ovens lend dishes their signature smoke and depth. For milestones and moments worth marking, Woodcut offers multiple private event experiences.
Ironbark is an intimate 8-person private dining room featuring dedicated service from a personal waiter and sommelier, with sliding doors that open onto a lush garden terrace. For slightly larger groups, Silver Ash is a 14-person exclusive dining space with a golden cloud installation soaring above the table by Brisbane-based contemporary artist Carly Scoufos.
Insider Intel
- The Chef’s Table offers 10 guests the chance to witness world-class cooking across four open kitchens while tucked in a semi-private corner of the main dining room.
Chiswick
65 Ocean Street, Woollahra
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A gorgeous garden oasis, Chiswick has a pretty private dining room that can host up to 40 guests, with a menu overseen by Matt Moran, featuring his own Moran Family Farm produce.
Looking out to the kitchen garden that grows seasonal veggies and herbs that feature across the menu.
Insider Intel
- The private dining room feels like a countryside greenhouse, and the communal-style dining is perfect for jovial celebrations with friends and family.
Da Orazio
75–79 Hall Street, Bondi Beach
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Inspired by masseries in the Apulian countryside, Da Orazio’s private dining room provides an exclusive oasis away from its busy main dining space. It’s fully glammed out with a large blonde timber table seating groups of 14–20 with ease, curtained walls, terrazzo tiled flooring and ambient lighting, creating a stylish sanctuary certain to impress your guests.
Da Orazio’s signature spicy vodka rigatoni is joined by satiating antipasti, wood-fired pizza and Italian spritzes.
Insider Intel
- Ideal for long lunches, celebratory dinners and all kinds of fun occasions, you can book Da Orazio’s PDR by emailing the crew.
NOMAD
16 Foster Street, Surry Hills
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Celebrating over 10 years in Sydney’s dining scene, NOMAD knows all about hosting a good time, especially in its private dining room. The Wine Cave is an intimate, bottle-lined space that can seat up to 24 guests, and NOMAD's main dining room can also be split into semi-private dining spaces for groups of up to 40.
Insider Intel
- The generous house-cured charcuterie platter and beloved olive oil ice cream sandwich bookend banquet dining options, with beverage packages featuring NOMAD's unique wine selection available.
Table Manners
56–60 Macpherson Street, Bronte
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Bronte’s modern Euro bistro, Table Manners, steps up its already sophisticated game with a bougie private dining room experience. Golden curtains encase the room, ready for an intimate affair, with a round marble table taking centre stage.
There’s enough space to fit 10 seated, and guests can choose between two share-style set menus filled with fresh seafood, handmade pasta and dessert for $89 or $135 per person.
Insider Intel
- An extensive wine collection rounds out the offering, with French champagne on the cards too.
Armorica Grande Brasserie
490 Crown Street, Surry Hills
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Bringing the fun, energy and excitement of Paris to Surry Hills, Armorica has a few ways to throw your events. The 20-seat private dining room is hidden behind Armorica’s main space's expansive wine wall, with timber-detailed ceilings, hand-crafted European oak joinery, and patina-flecked mirrors throughout, or there’s a spacious semi-private dining room tucked in the west wing for up to 30 guests.
Insider Intel
- The best of Aussie seafood and meat is prepared with respect to the techniques and heritage of Northern France, with luxe seafood towers, steak frites, and decadent desserts on the set menus available for your group from $95 per person.
Promenade Bondi Beach
Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach
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Promenade is a sprawling beachfront spot built into the historic Bondi Pavilion, complete with a beachfront verandah, a sunny terrace bar, and a private dining space called The Grotto with its own ocean views.
Suitable for up to 12 guests, The Grotto feels like a chic coastal space and offers two banquet menus spanning Promenade's ocean-forward fare like Sicilian crudo, charcoal-roasted proteins, and house-made pasta perfect for sharing.
Insider Intel
- If you’re trying to squeeze in a few extras, there’s also The Dunes, a semi-private space for up to 20 guests, spaciously seated on two side-by-side tables next to the main dining room.
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