Chophouse Parramatta

The ever-growing city of Parramatta continues to receive love from both food lovers and restaurateurs. Chophouse in Sydney is one of the most loved restaurants by many (including yours truly) for their steaks and grilled meats. I’m so glad to announce that my favourite place for steak has now opened its doors in Parramatta on Friday the 26th of October.

Chophouse Parramatta is located at the old Jamie’s Italian spot on Centenary Square. They pretty much kept most of the industrial fittings and added some chic and their own twist to the space. The bar has a decent range of booze and menu of cocktails to please everyone. The food menu has a great range of steaks from pasture fed to grain fed and a 5+ grade Wagyu. There’s starters like crab doughnuts, scallops on shell, beef carpacio and fried chicken available. There’s a nice selection of desserts available too.

If you like pâté in general then you need to order their chicken liver pâté ($19). It comes with toasted brioche and jam. The pâté itself was velvety with savoury and sweet notes. The pâté together with fluffy buttery toast was just stellar. I feel like the jam was not needed.

The fried chicken with blue cheese dip ($18) was also another hit. It’s served in smoked apple wood. The fried thigh chicken fillet itself almost has the texture of karaage chicken and the coating is full of umami with peppery notes.

Truffled fries

The main star of the show is their massive 400grams dry aged sirloin on a bone ($61 with chips and salad). This is one of the tastiest steaks I’ve ever had. It was nicely seasoned and cooked medium. The caramelised bits of the meat gave extra umami and extra developed flavours from the aging process. The texture was so tender and buttery. You also get a choice of sauces to go with your steak. We opted for the sweet and peppery diane sauce.

Every steak comes with twice-cooked chips. It was perfect! Crisped on the outside and fluffy buttery on the inside.

Their signature chocolate block with honeycomb and salt ($10) is just as good as I remember it. It tasted like a premium toblerone.

If you plan to MEAT up with family, friends and work colleagues in Parramatta, make sure to check out Chophouse.

Chophouse Parramatta
83 Macquarie St
Parramatta, NSW 2150
phone: (02) 8855 3400
Monday to Sunday: 11am till 10pm

Butter, Parramatta

One of Sydney’s best fried chicken joints has opened a flagship store in Parramatta. Butter is a hybrid fried chicken restaurant, champagne bar, streetwear and sneakers shop mashed into a dope 2-floor venue. Chef Julian Cincotta and his Butter crew has done an excellent job with their new Parra shop.

Nike air presto x Off White

Nike x Momofuku

Butter is located at V by Crown’s street level on Marsden Street. It’s where street swag and beats meet amazing comfort food. The new store also sells hard to find sneakers and other merch by Butter. Everything from Yeezys, Nike collabs and Butter bogo shirts are available. I hold Butter up there as one of my favourite joints for a legit fried chicken feed so I had to visit them on their opening day!

Butter’s OG chicken sandwich ($17 with a side of slaw) is still my favourite fried chicken sandwich in Sydney. Everything from the Southern-style buttermilk fried chicken to the dashi butter and pickles is off the hook. The fried chicken’s rippled crunchy coating, juicy meat and flavours is insane. The generous amount of dashi butter has so much umami. The pickles are on point. It is perfection in its simplicity. 

Another delicious version of their chicken sandwich is the Cheesuz sandwich ($17 with a side of slaw). Double cheese, lettuce, honey mustard and a perfect fried chicken thigh fillet.

Not only do they sell limited editions of sneakers here, but they also have limited runs of their chicken sandwich. While it’s still around, y’all should try the Butter 3000 sandwich ($17)! It is an amazing crispy fried chicken thigh fillet with smoked pastrami, pickled daikon, slaw and kabayaki sauce in a soft bun. The kabayaki sauce (normally used for unagi) is sweet with notes of umami.

 The classic fried chicken size 13 box ($69) is also available of course! You get 4 thigh pieces, 9 tenders, 2 sides of pickles, 2 sides of slaw and 3 choices of sauce. You can choose your heat from naked (If you wanna keep it naturel and classic), OG, fire and all the way to an extreme “hot AF” sauce for your chicken.

 The donuts ($5) here are legit! Their massive classic cinnamon and sugar donuts are delicious, hella fluffy and buttery. 

Other sides like laces (shoestring fries), miso corn, and collard greens are also on the menu. To quench that thirst, slushies, cocktails, ciders, wines and champagnes are available at the bar. Don’t forget to check out all the merchandise upstairs!

Butter

Shop 3,

45 Macquarie St, 

Parramatta NSW 2150.

Hours:

Monday to Thursday11.30am to 10pm,

Friday to Saturday 11.30am to 12am, and

Sunday 12pm to 9pm