What's on at BLACK and The Star
Wine dinners, poker nights, kitchen workshops, live music in the bar and the banquet rooms that host all of it. The calendar below is live and updated weekly.
October at BLACK
15
Thu
Barossa shiraz dinner
Five courses, five back-vintage pours, hosted by the winemaker. 20 seats in the cellar room.
AUD 195
Register18
Sun
Jazz & oysters evening
Live trio in the bar from 18:00, oyster bar pricing all night.
Free entry
Details24
Sat
Steak & fire workshop
Three hours at the grill with our chefs, ending with a long lunch. 10 stations.
AUD 180
Workshops30
Fri
Poker & plates night
Early dinner seating at 18:00, then hosted entry to the tournament floor at 20:00.
AUD 120
RegisterChristmas Eve dinner opens in
The festive menu takes the whole dining room on 24 December: five courses, a glass of vintage champagne and the harbour lights doing the decorating. Early tables release 1 November.
Christmas Eve · AUD 185
Five-course festive menu with vintage champagne on arrival.
Valentine's · AUD 160
Tables for two, shared desserts at the pass and rose pours all evening.
New Year's · AUD 240
Tasting menu, midnight toast and harbour fireworks from the terrace.
Dinner meets the felt
Weekly tournament partnership with The Star's poker room: eat early, play sharp, finish with the regulars at the bar.
The early stack
Dinner at 18:00, tournament at 20:00. Light mains menu built for a long session.
AUD 120 incl. dinner
Deep stack Sunday
Long-format tournament with a mid-session grazing break at the table.
AUD 150 incl. grazing
Charity casino night
Fun-money tables, dinner included, proceeds to our partner charities.
AUD 95 all in
Hear the room before you arrive
The ambience player runs three house mixes: dinner service, the bar after dark, and the terrace at sunset. This is what the room sounds like tonight.
Dinner service
Soul & jazz · 17:30 – 21:00
After dark
Deep cuts · 21:00 – close
Terrace sunset
Ambient · weekend afternoons
Sundays sound better live
A rotating bill of Sydney musicians plays the bar every Sunday from 18:00. Free entry with any bar or dinner booking.
Jazz trio
First and third Sundays: standards and originals over the oyster bar.
Soul session
Second Sundays: vocal-led covers and deep soul cuts.
Acoustic Sundays
Last Sunday of the month: stripped-back sets on the terrace when weather allows.
Cook with the brigade
Twice-monthly Saturday workshops inside the working kitchen: steak and fire, fresh pasta, pastry. Each ends with a long lunch of what you made.
Steak & fire
Cuts, aging, the Josper. AUD 180 · 10 stations
Fresh pasta
Dough, extrusion, three sauces. AUD 180 · 10 stations
Pastry
Lamination and custards. AUD 180 · 10 stations
The cellar comes to you
Monthly online sessions with our sommelier: a wine box lands at your door, the tasting runs live over video, and the questions work exactly like the cellar room.
- Three-bottle box shipped within Australia
- 75-minute live session with the sommelier
- Works for households and small groups
Australian icons box
Shiraz, chardonnay, pinot · Fri 7 Nov, 19:00
Aged reds box
Three back-vintage pours · Fri 21 Nov, 19:00
Sparkling session
Tasmania vs champagne · Fri 5 Dec, 19:00
What's peaking this month
The menu follows the fields. Pick a month and see which ingredients own the menu and where they show up on the plate.
Early asparagus
Charred with macadamia cream
Spring lamb
First of the season, grilled over coals
Blood orange
In the crudo and the sorbets
Broad beans
In the spring vegetable sides
Kingfish
Peak condition for the crudo
Last truffle
Final weeks on the rib-eye supplement
Stone fruit
First peaches into desserts and sours
Tomatoes
Heirlooms return to the menu
Prawns
Season peaks for the charred starters
Cherries
In the festive desserts
Summer herbs
Basil, dill and native greens peak
Festive roasts
Whole birds for the banquet menus
Mangoes
In the summer dessert specials
Blue swimmer crab
Peak season for the chilled plates
Zucchini flowers
Stuffed and grilled on the light menu
Figs
For the burnt fig tart season
Sweet corn
Charred on the cob with native butter
Flathead
Best condition for the whole-fish course
Book the room, not just the table
Three event spaces from 20 to 180 guests, each with its own floor plan and a coordinator from first call to last toast. Weddings, launches and end-of-year parties all fit.
- Ember Room: 36 seats beside the grill
- Pyrmont Room: 90 banquet
- Terrace: 180 reception