The night’s still young at The Charles Bar. Introducing Supper Club: where $2 oysters meet $12 mini cocktails, $15 burgers pair with $12 wines, and everyone’s welcome to continue their night.
Whether you missed dinner or just don’t want the evening to end, we’ve got your table ready. Right in the sweet spot between a restaurant and a bar, this is where your night continues.
No fuss, no hurry, just good food and drinks when you want them. Join us Monday to Saturday from 8pm until close. Book or walk in- doesn’t matter, settle in, linger on.
Savouring the good times with our $2 oysters, alongside $16 Happy Hour cocktails, $12 wines and $7 beers, plus a selection of bites including Bluefin Toro Potato Rösti, Blue Swimmer Crab Croquette and more.
No booking’s required; walk-ins always welcome, available until sold out.
Introducing our house made Cello Series in The Charles Bar, with monthly rotating flavours, our Bar Manager Colin Tam isn’t just sticking to the well-known limoncello – think Honeydew, Mango & more!
Hailing from Southern Italy originally, this vibrant liqueur, is hand crafted from the freshest seasonal fruits.
Under the expert guidance of our Bar Manager, Colin Tam, our team meticulously follows traditional Italian methods, infusing each batch with zest and freshness.
With flavours rotating monthly, from the sweet and ripe mango-cello to the invigorating citrus-cello, there’s surely a flavour you haven’t tried.
Enjoy our Cello’s in multiple ways: as a sophisticated digestif following a meal in the Brasserie, mixed into a fizzy spritz for a leisurely afternoon with friends, or just neat in a perfectly chilled glass.
Walk-ins are always welcome or book a seat at the bar by clicking the link below.
Enjoy fresh, house made, pasta daily in The Charles Bar for $28, or with a glass of wine for $35.
Made in-house daily, our chefs are creating 3 unique pasta dishes, rotating flavours every two weeks. These dishes are not on the menu, you’ll need to visit the bar and look for our pasta special board to know what is on the menu this week.
While we can’t guarantee the pasta you’ve seen is on the menu, we can guarantee you that each dish uses seasonal ingredients and are packed with flavour.
Available at the bar all day from Monday to Saturday, Walk-ins welcome.
Join us every Saturday in The Charles Bar for a relaxed free-flowing lunch.
Suitable for groups of 4 or more, our free-flowing experience includes our seasonal ‘Cello Spritz’, and a selection of wines and will be served alongside a delicious 3-course shared menu as well as live nu-disco music by DJ Illya.
Your table will be treated to a selection of five bite-sized snacks including Chickpea panisse with Prosciutto San Daniele and Prawn cocktail with sauce Mary Rose. Mains will include Blue swimmer crab linguine Lobster butter and a Rangers Valley scotch fillet MBS 4+ with sauce Bordelaise, both served along two sides. End your meal with a slice of Russian honey cak for the perfect sweet finish.
To book your spot for your Saturday free-flowing lunch in The Charles Bar, follow the button below or call our reservations team on (02) 8000 7800.
Indulge in a spot of luxury at The Charles Brasserie Afternoon Tea.
After a long day trawling Pitt Street, finish your day in the luxurious surrounds of The Charles Grand Brasserie as you sip on a glass of Moet and enjoy a relaxing afternoon.
The Charles offers guests an exclusive afternoon tea experience with a selection of Savoury and Sweets carefully crafted by our experienced pastry team, this is an Afternoon Tea experience that you won’t soon forget.
This experience is $110pp with a glass of Moet, for $99 with a glass of Chandon Blanc de Blancs. You’ll be also enjoying a curated menu of savoury & sweets and flowing tea and coffee.
For guests who would prefer a non-alcoholic option, this is priced at $79pp and includes a curated menu of savoury & sweets and flowing tea and coffee.
To book your Afternoon Tea at The Charles, please follow the link below or call our reservations team on 9145 8066.
Afternoon Tea is available from Monday-Saturday, from 12pm-5pm (last booking 3pm), in the Brasserie.
We require 24 hours’ notice for all dietary requirements and will do our best to accommodate all requests.
Every Monday to Saturday from 4pm to 7pm, we invite you to join us at The Charles Bar for The Charles Hours. Grab friends or colleagues and bring them down to The Charles Bar to enjoy selections of cocktail at $16, a glass of wine at $14, or a schooner at $8, and wash your drink down with some delicious bar snacks. Simply sit back, relax and unwind with drinks and small bites after a busy day. We’ll love to see you soon at The Charles bar.
Have a delicious drop you’ve been wanting to share? Bring your own bottle of wine and join us for lunch or dinner on Monday, so you can savour your preferred vino with every delicious bite at to The Charles Brasserie.
Pair your favourite Champagne with our Signature caviar service or pour a bottle of Rioja red to match with our Spatchcock and foie gras pithivier. Ask our Sommeliers for the best dish to pair with your bottle and enjoy your evening with us in the Brasserie.
BYO has a corkage fee of $35 per bottle and is available in the Brasserie on Mondays only, for both lunch and dinner.
To book follow the button below or contact our reservations team on (02) 9145 8066
Our aged Wagyu cheeseburger is made with all the best ingredients from our perfectly cooked aged Wagyu beef patty, slices of melted emmental and comte cheese, onion and pickles, topped with mustard and tomato sauce and served on a brioche sesame seed bun.
Our Bar lunch special includes our aged wagyu cheeseburger and your choice of house wine, beer or soft drink for $25pp.
Optional add on of seared foie gras for $15.
Available from Monday to Saturday, 12pm-6pm. Walk-ins welcome.
When afternoon tea is in full flight under the lofty ceiling of The Charles, it’s a beautiful sight. A trolley roams the room, groaning with cakes, chocolate and macarons, and guests sip artisan tea from fine china as they load up scones with preserves and cream. In many ways, The Charles offers a very traditional take on the afternoon tea, a concept masterminded in the mid-19th century by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, who would get peckish between lunch and her 8pm dinner. But in other ways, what head pastry chef Rhiann Mead and her team is doing is quite radical.
First, let’s backtrack – here in Australia we typically call this meal ‘high tea’. Yet in the UK, this betwixt-lunch-and-dinner feast is known as ‘afternoon tea’. So, what’s the difference? Traditionally, high tea was what the working classes in England might call dinner or supper (and it’s not unusual for many Australians to have grown up calling this meal ‘tea’). It was a filling meal of meat, carbs and, yes, tea, served after a long day of work. Still, scones, sandwiches and cakes scream ‘high tea’ to many down under.
“We didn’t want to restrict ourselves to the limited options of a standard high tea menu,” Mead says of The Charles’ decision to call the service afternoon tea. “Being a European brasserie, we have a much broader range to choose from, and we wanted the menu to reflect that.”
And Mead’s menu has a few items one definitely wouldn’t have seen on a Victorian-era high tea stand: unique takes on Kit-Kats, gummy bears and chocolate Flakes. “They’re beautifully refined and elegant, but also bring a sense of nostalgia,” she says. “They’re something you’d never see on an afternoon tea menu elsewhere.”
You probably also wouldn’t catch The Charles’ truly impressive honey cake on any other afternoon tea menus: it involves layer after layer (28 in total) of dulce de leche and honeycomb cake, making a spectacular crown for the dessert trolley.
Speaking of the dessert trolley: it’s a flourish you won’t see at any other afternoon (or high) tea in Sydney. It comes by each table after they’re served their scones and savouries, with diners invited to select from a bounty of sweets: the honey cake, tiramisu tarte, chocolates and macarons.
Some traditions, though, are never worth overthrowing. “You can’t have afternoon tea without scones!” says Mead, whose team bakes the classic every day. She also offers a practical answer to that old-age question: does the jam go first, or the cream?
“I’m a jam-first girl,” she says. “A scone will absorb more jam than it will cream, so it makes sense to do it in that order if you want to maximise your toppings!”
Afternoon Tea is available 12-5pm, 7 Days a week in The Charles Brasserie. Visit www.thecharles.sydney for more information
