This is the Rolls-Royce of food courts the top of the heap. Its run by one organisation (which operates all the food outlets and bars at GPO) and overseen by one chef, Andrew Duggan. If you can't be tempted by something here, your just not hungry.
At lunchtime, you'll find a sea of suits and suitettes eating, drinking and having a good time. But the place is actually divided into several places. We'll start with the bars: Sports and Coach (Senate), both of which serve food. Sports serve simple sambos and snacks and the Coach (Senate) usually has a couple of curries. There's the sushi train Sosumi (fully reviewed in City chapter), the Oyster Bar and Wood Fired Pizza, all self-explanatory.
Then there's Table. Choose from around the edges of a large room as you move around you'll see the offerings. There's a range of very fine salads, $8.50 or two for $10.50; we loved the rocket, chickpea and pancetta, and roasted chicken and asparagus and mint dressing. There are six pasta dishes daily at $9.50 or $14.50 with a glass of wine (the whole space is licensed); hot food such as beef and red wine stew or Thai green chicken curry $10.50 with rice or veg; 10 sandwiches or make-your-own; four quiches; a pesto-glazed salmon with salad $12.50, in other words, remarkably varied offerings and quick turnaround.
But, for us, the standout in the court is Cheese & Wine, run by cheese mistress Antonia Gilroy and her sommelier partner Sue Guest. There's a number of ways to play here, maybe with a benchmark cheese and classic wine flight three cheeses and three wines for $28. Or create your own plate from the list of more than 20 Australian and European cheeses with your choice of wine. Try an antipasto share plate $28, a rich caramelized onion and gruyere tart $15 or a simple baguette $9.80. Edited by John Newton and Stephanie Clifford-Smith, Sydneyeats, With cheapeats, 27th Edition, 2008


"This is on-the-run, easy but classy fare, with a budget in mind". The Sun Herald, Sunday Magazine, Sunday Life, 2001