Aster Sydney

Aster is on the 32nd floor of 117 Macquarie Street, a five-minute walk from Martin Place. The restaurant focuses on contemporary seafood.

The room runs smart and elegant, but the altitude is the real draw. Most dining rooms in this part of Sydney keep you grounded in the street-level hustle of the city, whereas Aster removes you from it entirely. You are paying for the detachment here, which feels more intentional than the bustling, open-plan spots lining the walk to the Royal Botanic Garden. While the menu leans into a formal style of seafood preparation, the space remains more focused on its vantage point than the surrounding, more claustrophobic dining dens.