Paddock & Vine — Restaurant in Sydney

I have such mixed feelings about this venue and my experience. My partner and I went here for a long overdue date night. Decent wine list, good food and cosy atmostphere - but expensive for what you get.

We went on a Saturday night, and booking online was an easy and hastle free process. When we arrived it was obviously a defined sitting, as there were an number of other patrons all arriving at the same time. Their COVID planning was pretty laid back -for example, there was a QR code to register attendance, but there was no one monitoring that this was actually being done.

This venue promotes itself as wine bar meets shareplate/mediteranian dining destination. In regards to the food, the menu was simple but looked appetising. We ordered the arincini balls, chips, lasagne, baked gnocchi and the broccolini. The portions were quite small, and to be honest for the price I was expecting a dish more on the "fine dining" end of the spectrum rather than "one step up from a family resteraunt" style dish. That said, price aside, the food was tasty, comforting and well prepared.

The service was perhaps the main thing which threw me in regards to attending this venue. When ordering our food, we requested the sides to be served with our main. The chips (a side) came with the shared plate, and the broccolini came with the mains. Furthermore, as a wine bar, I was expecting that this would be a distinguishing feature of the experience of dining at Paddock & Vine. The wait staff mde no attempt to engage in discussion about appropriate selection of wine, but were rather keen just to take our order, get the first glass poured, plonk the bottle on the table and get back to work. We had to seek out a waiter to get a bottle of water for the table as well. In general, we had assumed that the high prices were related to the wine bar / dining experience, however that was apparently not the case. Note all of the wait staff were friendly and happy to check on things. They were clearly busy having to accomodate so many people who all come into the venue at the same time, I understand and I hope that pre-COVID this was not as big an issue.

Thus while this place is a cosy little venue on the Northern Beaches, with a relativly good wine selecton and menu, but there is a feeling of not walking away with value for your money. If the prices were slightly more in line with an upmaket family run resteraunt, I would be giving this venue a 5 star, but for the price we paid I...

Fantastic night out at Paddock & Vine on Thursday night. From the moment we arrived we felt welcome and the food and service from there didn't disappoint. The fitout is funky and modern, they've done a great job. The food is designed to share but can easily be eaten individually. It's absolutely delicious too, everything was cooked to perfection and certainly left us craving more! We shared between 5 people and Harry (the head chef) gave us a great range of food to eat! It's very well priced and great value for what you get & the staff are very knowledgeable whilst being entertaining at the same time. This by far one of the best new restaurants on the beaches. Make sure you...

Good option for tapas, but don't sit outside. We booked a table on a Saturday night and was given an outside table. When we booked, I didn't mind the idea of an outdoor table as it was a very nice evening. Unfortunately the outside tables are clearly an afterthought and are just plonked on the sidewalk (albeit not in the walkway). The waitresses also seem to forget about you outside, because we had to go looking for a waitress on more than one occasion. The food is okay but not great, the scallops were good(but only 3 to share between 4 people) as was the octopus, but everything else was average at best. I also found the wine to be a bit pricey ($10 for a...