ESQ Bar & Dining in Sydney's Queen Victoria Building

About this tour

Dine on Modern Australian fare in a dimly lit New York–style supper club perched inside Sydney's heritage Queen Victoria Building. This two-hour experience seats your group around a shared menu showcasing seasonal dishes, paired with curated wines, spirits and house cocktails. Dark oak panelling, soft leather, and the building's original Romanesque architecture create an intimate setting that feels worlds away from the city streets below.

Highlights

• Shared menu designed for communal dining and conversation
• Modern Australian kitchen within a heritage sandstone landmark
• Hand-crafted cocktails from an extensive spirits collection
• Seasonal menu rotates with market availability
• QVB's 1890s Romanesque revival architecture as backdrop
• Low-lit oak bar with mosaic and parquetry detailing

What to expect

You'll arrive at a moody, intimate dining room two floors up inside the Queen Victoria Building, where the menu arrives as a shared affair—designed for passing plates and talking across the table. The kitchen turns out reworked Modern Australian dishes that shift with the seasons; expect quality produce treated without fuss. Your group orders collectively rather than individually, which shapes the pacing and rhythm of the meal. Drinks flow from a fully stocked bar where the bartenders make cocktails to order, and the wine list runs deep. The space itself—all dark wood, soft leather, low amber light—does the heavy lifting of atmosphere.

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