For Sydney restaurants, bistros and wine bars, from Haymarket and Surry Hills to Church Street in Parramatta and King Street in Newtown: a site that gets a table booked in a few taps, shows the menu you're serving this week, and describes BYO, takeaway wine and drinks packages in words that match what your NSW licence allows.
Someone choosing between three places on Crown Street wants the menu, a rough price and a free table tonight. An office manager booking a Christmas lunch for twenty near Barangaroo wants the private room, the set menu and the deposit terms. A NSW venue also has liquor rules that reach onto its website, and that is where a Sydney restaurant site parts ways with a generic one.
In NSW a BYO restaurant doesn't need a liquor licence at all, while a licensed restaurant has to be preparing and serving meals whenever it trades. Whether people can drop in for a drink without eating depends on whether the licence carries a Primary Service Authorisation. The site says which applies to you, BYO wine with corkage per bottle or a bar where walk-ins can order a glass on its own, so nobody arrives expecting the other.
Liquor & Gaming NSW's liquor promotion guidelines cover venue websites, social media and email as well as posters on the wall. Among their examples of promotions that encourage rapid drinking are all you can drink in a limited time frame and happy hours built around fast consumption. We set out your brunch, function and drinks packages in the words you choose; if one feels borderline, the guidelines are the place to check before it goes live.
Since 1 March 2025 a NSW restaurant selling liquor with takeaway or delivery orders has needed a Takeaway Sales Authorisation. It allows liquor sold with a genuine meal, up to one 750ml bottle of wine, six sealed containers of beer, cider or premix (2.25 litres at most) or four house-made cocktails (one litre) per order, and no sales on restricted days such as Christmas Day and Good Friday. An online menu that offers a bottle with dinner should stop at the same limits.
Restaurant licences can now be included in special event extended trading, which in 2026 covered weekends of Sydney Festival in the CBD, Vivid Sydney weekends around the harbour and Parramatta Lanes in October. If you seat later or run a set menu on those nights, the hours and the menu go on the site and into your Google Business Profile's special hours, so the late tables actually get booked.
Sydney diners search the way they talk: yum cha in Haymarket, Lebanese in Parramatta, a late Thai dinner in Newtown. The page title, the first line of the home page and your Google listing name the suburb and the cooking, and the address sits beside a map and the nearest station or light rail stop.
The City of Sydney has approved nearly 1,000 outdoor dining applications since 2020 and stopped charging outdoor dining fees for good in mid-2025. If you have footpath or kerbside tables, say whether they can be booked or are walk-in only, whether there's cover or heating in winter, and whether dogs are welcome, since those are the questions that otherwise come by phone mid-service.
Liquor licensing in NSW sits with Liquor & Gaming NSW, and the rules are the same from the CBD to the Hunter. A BYO restaurant (opens in a new tab) needs no liquor licence, only the usual council approvals, though supplying alcohol to a minor is still an offence there. A restaurant on an on-premises licence (opens in a new tab) must serve meals at all times it trades and keep free drinking water available, and serving people who don't order food needs a Primary Service Authorisation. Selling liquor for takeaway or delivery needs a Takeaway Sales Authorisation (opens in a new tab), and the liquor promotion guidelines (opens in a new tab) reach anything published online, from your own site to messaging apps, with the regulator able to ask for a promotion to be changed or withdrawn. Licensing questions belong with Liquor & Gaming NSW; our part is making sure the site says what your licence allows.
The NSW Government's Vibrancy Reforms (opens in a new tab) have changed what a Sydney venue's week can look like. Standard Sunday trading now runs from 5am to midnight, although a venue whose licence doesn't already allow it has to apply. Restaurant licences were added to special event extended trading (opens in a new tab). In 2026 that meant midnight to 2am on Sydney Festival weekends for licensed premises in the CBD, and on Vivid Sydney weekends for premises in Barangaroo, The Rocks, Haymarket, Pyrmont, Potts Point and nearby suburbs, with 10pm to 2am on the three Parramatta Lanes nights in October; Lunar New Year in Parramatta and Cabramatta and the Mardi Gras weekend were on the list too. The extra hours cover drinks served on the premises, not takeaway.
Council rules add another layer. Inner West Council made Enmore Road the first Special Entertainment Precinct in NSW in 2023 and added six more in 2025: Balmain, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt, Rozelle, Marrickville North and Marrickville Town Centre. Businesses inside one can trade within the hours shown on the precinct maps (opens in a new tab) without a further council approval, while liquor licence hours still apply. The City of Sydney waived footpath and on-road dining fees permanently (opens in a new tab) from 30 June 2025, and in January 2026 consulted on making on-street dining areas permanent where suitable, with five-year approvals where possible.
Sydney dining also stretches well beyond the harbour. Destination NSW's sydney.com describes Church Street in Parramatta as a well-known eat street and one of Sydney's dining precincts, and Cabramatta and Newtown have event nights of their own. A restaurant in any of them is competing for searches by suburb, so its site should name that suburb rather than settle for Sydney, and show the hours it actually keeps on each night of the week.
We're an Adelaide team, at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, and work with Sydney businesses by phone and email. We haven't built a restaurant site yet. Our Sydney clients include Resolve Forward, whose priced packages link straight to online booking, and Western Sydney Stump Grinding. You send menus, photos of the room and your booking link; we send a draft to check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
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Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis, SA. Visitors ask for a charter date or a gift voucher through a form, browse catch photos and read the FAQ: the same building blocks a restaurant uses for voucher sales and group bookings.
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One menu, your hours, a booking button, a map with the nearest station, and your BYO or bar policy. Enough for a neighbourhood place without a functions trade.
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Home with booking and location, a menus page with drinks, and a functions page with an enquiry form. Event-night hours and set menus sit on the home page while they're on.
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Room for private dining, function packages, gift vouchers, a takeaway page with the wine limits set out, events, your story, or a second venue elsewhere in Sydney.
What a guest needs to know before leaving home: wine only or beer as well, the corkage charge and whether it's per bottle or per head, and any limits for large groups. In NSW a BYO restaurant doesn't need a liquor licence, but supplying alcohol to a minor is still an offence on the premises, so a short house policy can sit beside the BYO details if you'd like one.
If you hold a Takeaway Sales Authorisation, yes, within its limits: liquor sold with a genuine meal, and per order no more than one 750ml bottle of wine, six sealed containers of beer, cider or premix, or four house-made cocktails. We can link the ordering platform you already use or build ordering and payment into your site, quoted for the job. Either way, the menu should only offer what your authorisation covers.
The NSW liquor promotion guidelines apply to websites and social media. They don't mention bottomless brunches by name, but they give all you can drink in a limited time frame as an example of a free-drinks promotion that encourages rapid drinking, and Liquor & Gaming NSW can ask a venue to change or pull a promotion. How you structure and word the offer is your call; read the guidelines (opens in a new tab) first, and we'll publish what you settle on.
Email us the event hours and any set menu, and we'll put them on the home page and booking page for those weeks, then take them down afterwards. Text changes on existing pages are covered by the $30 monthly hosting, and we reply within 24 hours. Add the same times as special hours in your Google Business Profile so Maps and your site agree.
Yes. We're an Adelaide web design team working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. Expect a call about your menus, functions and booking system, then email for the words and photos, then a draft link to review. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos; bigger sites (up to 8 pages) take 2–3 weeks.
Send us your menus, a few photos of the room, your booking link and whether you're licensed or BYO. We'll quote and build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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