Local produce and seasonal ingredients are celebrated in style at Apera.

Walk inside this restaurant and you’ll immediately feel at home. The décor is the best kind of eclectic, with interesting feature pieces paired alongside simple yet quality wooden tables – a nod to the venue’s bushy Castlecrag surrounds.

Once seated at your table, you’ll be spoilt for choice with a menu that, while smaller in size, boasts some of the most enticing modern Australian dishes this side of the bridge. Think starters like the cauliflower fritters and smoked mullet taramasalata, and follow them up with mains like the wood-fired lamb rump or the spring garlic and lemon thyme chicken. We recommend coming armed with a big appetite or a large group so you can sample as many of these locally sourced dishes as possible!

Yet the food isn’t the only area where local produce is a hero. The drinks menu boasts some of the country’s finest distillers, brewers and winemakers, from Young Henry’s pale ale to the Aussie gin and vodka in the cocktails.