Sydney dining through the years

Jennice Kersh at Edna's Table restaurant in Kent Street, Sydney on May 20, 1982. Photo: Paul Wright

The Cyren restaurant in Ultimo, Sydney on February 12, 1975. Photo: Trevor Dallen

Josephine and Damien Pignolet at Claude's in Oxford Street in 1982.

Darley Street Thai co-owners David Thompson (left) and Peter Bowyer in 1991. Photo: Peter Solness

Chef Timothy Pak Poy in 1992. He celebrated a high-scoring review of Claude's in 1995 by hitting the surf at Bondi.

Ian McCullock and Ann Taylor, owners of Taylor's restaurant in Surry Hills, on September 17, 1982. Photo: Julian Zakaris

Neil Perry at Blue Water Grill in Bondi in 1987. Photo: Ross Willis