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After more than 20 years, Bentley Restaurant + Bar has finished its chapter at 27 O’Connell Street. Thank you to everyone who joined us over the years. We look forward to sharing what comes next.
Our Story
“A microcosm of relentless perfectionism.”
Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide
Bentley Restaurant + Bar is one of the most influential restaurants in Australia. It has been lauded by restaurant critics from around the world, recognised with a swag of awards by influential publications including Gourmet Traveller, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian and consistently featured in the Top 20 of Gourmet Traveller’s Top 100 Australian restaurants.
Bentley Restaurant + Bar was opened in March 2006 by chef Brent Savage and sommelier Nick Hildebrandt in a former pub in Surry Hills. It was a new kind of restaurant for Sydney – one where the food could challenge and inspire you, but in a relaxed atmosphere where you could find an eclectic list of wines not offered anywhere else.
With Brent’s clever, flavoursome food and Nick’s love of introducing customers to wines by international boutique producers, Bentley Restaurant + Bar quickly earned a reputation for leading diners to some new and exciting places. The vision paid off and Bentley was named ‘Best New Restaurant’ at the Sydney Morning Herald’s 2007 Good Food Guide Awards, as well as earning two chef’s hats and a coveted wine glass, which it has retained ever since.
Since those early days, Brent and Nick have continued to steer Bentley Restaurant + Bar to a place where it has become known as one of the most influential restaurants in the country.
In 2013 the Bentley moved from its original home in Surry Hills to a bigger, grander space at the Paradox Sydney (formerly Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel) in Sydney’s CBD. With its majestic façade and contemporary interior designed by award-winning Melbourne architect Pascale Gomes-McNabb, Bentley Restaurant + Bar found the perfect home. The interiors had a further makeover in 2018 creating a more distinctive bar area.
Brent has twice been awarded the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food Guide ‘Chef of the Year’ (2005 and 2015) and has travelled the world cooking as a guest at some of the world’s best restaurants. Nick has been awarded ‘Sommelier of the Year’ four times and his wine list earned the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food Guide ‘Wine List of the Year’ Award in 2007, 2012 and 2016.
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2024
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2025 – 2 Hats
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – Three Wine Glasses
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – Best Digestif List in Australia
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – Best Aperitif List in Australia
2023
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2024 - Two Hats
Australia's Best Aperitif List + 3 Glasses
Top 25 Restaurants in NSW Gourmet Traveller
2022
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2022 - Two Hats
“When an establishment has been at the forefront of Sydney dining for 16 years, it tends to know a thing or two about what customers want: excellent food, delicious wine and a number you can call.” Callan Boys May 2022
Inclusion in the Delicious 100
“The menu is uncompromisingly cheffy, bringing exceptional ingredients together in new and daring ways”
Best in the Business – Good Food Guide 2022
2020
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2020 – 2 Hats
Gourmet Traveller Top 100 Restaurants 2020 – No.9
Best Listing of Wines by the Glass & Best Digestif List– Wine List of the Year Awards 2020
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide – 3 Wine Glasses, Top 100 (#9)
Delicious Top 100. – #16
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – winner of “Best List Wines by the Glass” and ” Best Digestif List”
2019
Gourmet Traveller Top 100 Restaurants 2019 – No.10 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2019 – 2 Hats
“Glittery CBD dining that still pushes all the right buttons”
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide – 2 Stars, 3 Wine Glasses, Top 100 (#10)
2018
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2018 – 2 Hats
“Putting Business Class into dining”
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide – 2 Stars, 3 Wine Glasses, Top 100 (#10)
Delicious Top 100, #17
Wine List of the Year Awards 2018 - Best Listing of Wines by the Glass
2017
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2017 – 2 Hats
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide – 2 Stars, 3 Wine Glasses, Top 100 (#9)
2016
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2016 – 2 Hats
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide – Wine List of the Year
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide – 2 Stars, 3 Wine Glasses, Top 100 (#13)
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – inducted into the ‘Hall of Fame’
Tourism Accommodation Awards – Metropolitan Restaurant of the Year Deluxe Hotels
2015
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2015 - Brent Savage ‘Chef of the Year’
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2015 - 2 Hats
Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide 2015 - Nick Hildebrandt ‘Sommelier of the Year’
Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide Awards – 2 stars, 3 Wine Glasses
Australian Gourmet Traveller Top 100 (#14)
Gourmet Traveller WINE, Wine List of the Year Awards:
– Australia’s Best Wine List
– NSW Best Wine List
– Best City Wine List and
– The Judy Hirst Award for the Sommelier Responsible for the Winning List (Nick Hildebrandt)
Time Out Sydney – Wine Bar of the Year
Time Out Sydney – Highly Commended Best Bar Food
2014
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – NSW Wine List of the Year
2013
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2015 – 2 Hats
Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide – Two Stars, 3 Wine Glasses
2012
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2012 – 2 Hats
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2012 – Wine List Of The Year
Australian Gourmet Traveller 2012 – Two Stars, Top 100 (#14)
The Australian Hot 50 Restaurant Awards
2011
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011 – 2 Hats
Australian Gourmet Traveller 2011 – Two Stars, Top 100 (#16)
2010
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 – 2 Hats
Australian Gourmet Traveller Top 100 (#24)
Australian Gourmet Pages “Restaurant of the Year”
2009
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 – 2 Hats
2008
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 – 2 Hats
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide – Sommelier of the Year (Nick Hildebrandt)
2007
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 – 2 Hats
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide – Best New Restaurant
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide – Wine List of the Year (inaugural)
2006
Australian Gourmet Traveller – Sommelier of the Year (Nick Hildebrandt)
“The partnership between food and wine has long been Bentley's biggest strength, with Savage and kitchen collaborator Aiden Stevens delivering elegant dishes with just the right amounts of acid, sweetness and fat to bolster Hildebrandt's extensive cellar of rare gems.”
Callan Boys May 2022