Sydney 2025 Food Predictions

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I traded in my crystal ball for a Magic 8 Ball this year. Upon asking if I should post some 2025 predictions shortly after Christmas it responded “It is decidedly so”. It has been foretold to be foretold.

Happy 2025, and may your encounters with silly, unwanted food trends I may or may not predict correctly be brief.

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• Tableside tiramisu out, tableside trifle in

• Sizzler cheesy toast pop-up, queues longer than Lune lines

• Juicy cakes in (tres leches, non-coffee tiramisu riffs, heavily soaked black forests, oozy laminated pastries)

• Açai sgroppinos

• No more thick focaccia, sandwiches with greater filling-to-bread ratios in

• Raw scallops in

• Re-released Kettle Honey Baked Ham chips giveaway via resurrected 2Day FM Black Thunders

• Matcha strawberry out, pistachio apricot in

• New croissant shapes take a gap year as Kouign-Amann wears the 2025 pastry crown

• Just kidding. Basque cheesecake viral Dubai chocolate twice baked crookie Biscoff octahedron croissant incoming

• Devilled eggs legitimately in

• Raygun's litigeousness continues, any restaurant serving kangaroo tartare, fillet or a burger is gonna get sued

• Superfluous tableside service to continue much to my disdain - just ask if I want the chicken or the fish and fling a steamed tray my way like I’m on a cramped flight to Heathrow already

• Soft serve ice cream truck resurgence

• Battle of the nut spreads conclude as they secede before the seed - it’s tahini’s time again

• De-influencing trend extends to posting about the Macca's® Loose Change Menu®, influencers to gasp from the front seat of their cars at a Chicken ’n’ Cheese and 50c cone

• Labor party loses election over Bertie Beetle show bag price increase, inflation deemed as Un-Australian as it gets

• Tart of the day out, desserts served in martini glasses in

• Nouveaux Fishermen’s Baskets served at Sydney’s many emerging Brasseries and Grills of opulence. Fisherman’s Casket to include salted egg fried lobster, typhoon shelter crab, Skull Island king prawn cutlets and fancy fried sprats

• Subsequently, prawn toast out (prawn cutlets in)

• Erewhon dupe store to open alongside Bondi’s new ice baths and saunas with Sydney-grade celebrities (unpopular MAFS contestants, retired NRL players) spruiking signature collagen, sea moss, grass-fed whey protein, blue spirulina and hydrogen-infused water smoothies

• Subsequently, there will be a brief Pete Evans sighting

• Hot dogs in

• Lillet or vermouth and soda summer

• Wet rice winter (spanakorizo and friends)

• Much like the Crumbl debacle of this year, some genius will return with a suitcase full of 7/11 egg sandos from Japan and chaos will ensue

• Granita in, kakigori in, shaved ice generally in (please)

• Cake decorating trend moves from organic shapes and excessive buttercream to rectangular forms with printed edible photos and maybe a sliced almond border topped with Corinthian wafers and large chocolate curls

• Linguistic re-corrections - anything mildly popular will no longer be referred to as “viral”, underground bars with neon signs serving top-shelf cocktails to no longer be referred to as “dives”

• In a slight mortadella-ish sandwich deli pivot, ‘Gabagoolerie’ food truck to open with only one offering - capocollo, provolone and vinegar peppesh sandwiches

• Stone fruit jam supremacy

• Grand social media return of Scott Morrison and another unseared chicken breast curry selfie controversy

• Dedicated tinned fish store to open on Australia Street in Newtown

• The return of “epic” food, ie bacon

• More non-Italian / ‘untraditional’ gelato spots

• The end of the world cometh as Chargrill Charlie’s ultimately crosses the Red Rooster Line