Le Kiosk

Sydney's famous and long standing Le Kiosk Restaurant offers spectacular views of Shelly Beach with ocean views to Manly. This makes a unique setting for special celebrations, business and casual dining, whilst offering superb Modern Australian cuisine, exceptional seafood and an extensive wine list to suit.

Editorial Review

Le Kiosk, a handsome restaurant with an attached cafe, is a sentimental spot for many regular visitors to Manly’s smaller, prettier and lesser-known swimming and picnicking haven – Shelly Beach. Housed in a gorgeous, modern beach house, the food from the restaurant’s kitchen is first class. Yet sand-coated swimmers and divers in their wetsuits are welcome to march into the cafe straight from the ocean to warm up with a hot chocolate. By day the cafe trades mainly in ice cold Cokes and ice-creams for the kids, while the parents can sit on the restaurant’s terrace, shaded by the branches of the giant Moreton Bay fig tree, plate of oysters on the table and the wild, deep blue mere metres away.

At night Le Kiosk is something else completely. As the sky dims and the bathers move out, a new type of beach-dweller emerges. Hungry possums scamper from the surrounding bush and if you’re sitting outside, expect big, marsupial eyes to plead with you for scraps. This isn’t the kind of food you’d be keen to share with the wildlife however. The seafood rich, mod-Oz menu offers seared scallop tart with prawns, tarragon and carrot butter sauce, and whole mud crab cooked with shallots and ginger. It’s well-executed, satisfying fare and there’s a good, mid-priced wine list to match.

Fiona Davies, August 2006