5 Best Mediterranean Restaurants in Sydney (2026)

NOUR, in Surry Hills, is a one-hatted contemporary Middle Eastern and Lebanese restaurant that reimagines traditional Lebanese cuisine through what its own site calls a modern Australian lens. It earned a Good Food Guide hat in both 2023 and 2025, and pairs wood-fired mains with a mezze-driven menu built for shared dining.

MEZA Bar and Grill, on York Street inside The York club, brings what its own site calls Mediterranean warmth to the CBD, from the team behind Primi Italian. It's built around a bar-and-grill menu leaning on steaks, wagyu, and garlic prawns, with a breezy outdoor terrace.

Mecca Bah, at King Street Wharf, describes its own menu as Middle Eastern and Mediterranean inspired, built around mezze and tagines with a water-view dining room. It's a bigger, more tourist-facing operation than the others here, with a broader menu that spans casual pizza through to high tea.

Aalia, in the CBD, is a two-hatted Middle Eastern restaurant built around recipes drawn from across the Middle East and North Africa, some rediscovered from 10th-century Arabic cookbooks according to its own site. Google classifies it as Middle Eastern rather than Mediterranean specifically, but the cuisine sits close enough to this list's territory that we've kept it in, with that distinction stated plainly.

Babylon Rooftop and Garden Bar, on Pitt Street Mall, is a modern Middle Eastern restaurant and rooftop bar built around Levantine flavours, spanning terraces, an open-air bar, and a live belly dancing show on weekends. It's the biggest, most events-driven venue on this list.