Bird Cow Fish Ph: 9380 4090 ; Shop 4, 500 Crown St, SURRY HILLS 2010 www.birdcowfish.com.au Modern Australian, $$ + Open Breakfast Sat-Sun 9am-noon Lunch 7 days noon-2.30pm Dinner Mon-Sat 6pm-10pm, Closed Public holidays; Licensed, BYO, Corkage $15 bottle; AE V EFT Chef Alex Herbert (30-8-10) Owner Alex Herbert & Howard Gardner (21-12-09)

Photo Tony Knox

Mietta's Review
This pleasant corner room is flooded with light from the entry and side windows. The simple bright interior has polished floor, dark timber tables relieved by white linen serviettes and bentwood chairs. In other words it's a bistro. The food too is very much in that mode It's well-cooked and reasonably priced. The low key service gets you what you want without fuss. It's a very pleasant place to dine. But, there's more. Up-front there's an espresso bar to help carry you through the day and a specialist cheese cabinet for those looking to buy first class cheeses. It's good to see Bird Cow Fish return to the Sydney restaurant scene in this smart new location.

Other published opinions

Gourmet Traveller 2011 Australian Restaurant Guide "Bird Cow Fish could well be the prototypical Aussie bistro, if the classic steak frites reimagined as hanger steak with sweet and sour garlic, anchovy, oregano, raisin and veal jus is anything to go by"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2010 Australian Restaurant Guide "Seasonal, regional produce plus friendly service and a welcoming environment is a combination that's hard to beat. In fact. Alex Herbert's bistro-style food is generous in every way: uncomplicated, full, flavours and decent-sized serves - and there's a modest list of quirky wines to go with it"

Sydney Eats 2009 "A lick of paint and new blackboards have freshened up this relatively new gem on the Sydney dining scene, but the room remains elegantly understated with polished floorboards, wooden tables and comfortable chairs"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide "Up front is an espresso bar and cheese counter; using pull-down screens, a communal table doubles as a private space. Behind, in the buzzy bistro-like dining room, tables are generously spaced"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 15.5/20

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "Bright and forever bustling, Bird Cow Fish is the very picture of the Modern Australian bistro"

Sydney Eats 2008 "Modestly billing itself as "bistro, espresso, cheese", this charming all-day, everyday eatery is so much more"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2007 Restaurant Guide "Bird Cow Fish is a remake, a version of the Balmain bistro acclaimed in the late 90s, rebooted in a crisp (read: minimal and somewhat noisy) Crown Street space a door up from Pizza e Birra. The food mines the same vein as many others working the around $30-a-main mark: a nice fresh, loose, open lasagne of pasta sheets, artichokes, almonds and olives; a winter soup special of lentils, pancetta and braised pork hock."