Bistro CBD

Ph: 8297 7010; Level 1, 52 King St, SYDNEY 2000 www.merivale.com

Mediterranean, $$ +
Open Lunch Mon-Fri noon-3pm Dinner Mon-Fri 6-10pm; Licensed; AE DC MC V
Chef Simun Dragicevich (29-11-08) Owner Merivale Group (29-11-08)

Mietta's Review
This long time success story in the city doesn't stray too far from the tries and true comfort-for-conservatives formula. After all, their market is the predominantly male business market. And, it's something they do well - sausages, beef, lamb rump. Downstairs the bar is a noisy Sydney scene, particularly on Friday nights.

Other published opinions

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 15/20, One Hat "The lunchtime scene at Bistro CBD is predictable. Light floods through arched windows as smart staff dart around the white room seeing to a full house of suits and city shoppers"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 15/20, One Hat "From a fresh-faced revamped pub space, a well-worn centre staircase winds up to a high-ceilinged second floor with a wide middle bar, smooth white columns and endless higharched windows"

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "Call Bistr CBD for a lunch booking and you'll be asked what corporate name you'd like the table under"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 Score: 14/20 "Owners John and Justin Hemmes have picked their market perfectly. At weekday lunchtimes, the handsome high-ceilinged dining room, a floor above the surging CBD saloon, swells and recedes with bizoids of every pinstripe."

Gourmet Traveller 2007 Restaurant Guide "If a French-style bistro can't get steak and frites right, then there's a problem. Thankfully chef James Privett trained at Bistro Moncur under Sydney smart-French supremo Damien Pignolet. Served with crisp shoestring fries and maitre d'hotel butter, his fillet steak is a carnivore's dream."

Sydney Eats 2006 "We know it's open for dinner - and it's very good but this place is Lunch with a big L. Smart room, smart service and you'll be in and out smartly if that's what you want."

SMH Good Food Guide 2005 Score 13/20 "There's a double-breasted suit eating a sausage. It's a matter of course at this civilised firstfloor restaurant, with its ionic columns and elegant timber windows, deep in the financial district. The measure of its success is that it continues to win the allegiance of Sydney's toughest restaurant audience: the city business lunch crowd."

Sydney Eats 2005 "Perennially popular, this bustling midtown bistro knows how to satisfy the bizoids and bizettes with simple, elegant food that mightn't break rules but does soothe the hunger beast. If noise is not on your menu, pass quickly through the raging bar scene - particularly good/bad on Friday nights"

Daily Telgraph NSW Restaurant Guide 2004, ... in a smart buzzy location. You'll need to book for lunch, dinner is more relaxed.

SMH GFG 2004, Score 14/20,'On Friday nights, top buttons, ties and lips loosen as the business crowd unstrings from the week over a beer or six in the bar downstairs.But upsatirs in the restaurant, with doors firmly closed, the world is at peace...the food-a selection of modern Australian favourites'