Rainy Day Rescue in Sydney — Cozy & Indoor

Three Blue Ducks

Cozy dinner indoors — Pulled-pork eggs — Beachside cafe brunch, paddock-to-plate.

Caribbean rum speakeasy hidden under Temperance Society with craft cocktails for date nights.

Hundreds of games, coffee and snacks — equally great solo, on a date or in a group.

Private museum of 21st-century Chinese art in a converted warehouse — free and undervisited.

Reuben Hills

Warm indoor lunch — Baleadas & coffee — Latin-leaning brunch, specialty roastery.

Southern Hemisphere's largest fish market with sushi bars and fish-and-chips on the wharf.

Free-roam VR rooms — works for friend groups, parties or rainy-day plans.

Cornersmith

Low-lit dinner — House-cured salmon plate — Ferment-forward brunch with pickle counter.

King Street — live music, late-night Thai, vintage shops and the Enmore Theatre.

Single O

Slow brunch — Brunch bowl & batch brew — Coffee-bar brunch institution.