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Modern grill · Barangaroo · Sydney
Woodcut
Ironbark embers, a flywheel grill and four open kitchens at Crown Sydney in Barangaroo, with steaks that take 45 minutes and more.
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Why go
Ironbark burns under every steak. Woodcut grills its beef over ironbark embers on a bespoke flywheel grill. The menu asks for 45 minutes from ordering, and up to an hour for the large cuts. Around it run four open kitchens, one each for fire, smoke, steam and ice, across 260 seats on the ground floor of Crown Sydney. Ross and Sunny Lusted, who ran The Bridge Room from 2011 to 2019, built it. The steak list runs from a 200 g / 7 oz eye fillet to a 1.8 kg / 4 lb tomahawk.
What to order
O'Connor bone-in sirloin, dry-aged, 3+, 400 g / 14 oz
Black Onyx T-bone, 5+, 1 kg / 2.2 lb
Galiciana rib eye, five years old, 3+, 600 g / 21 oz
Not published: grade, price.
01What to order
- O'Connor bone-in sirloin, dry-aged, 3+, 400 g / 14 ozPasture-fed, Gippsland, A$100. Bone-in, dry-aged, on ironbark.
- Black Onyx T-bone, 5+, 1 kg / 2.2 lbBlack Angus from Glen Innes, NSW, A$300. Sirloin and fillet on one bone.
- Galiciana rib eye, five years old, 3+, 600 g / 21 ozPasture-fed, Robbins Island, Tasmania, A$180.
- Robbins Island hanger steak, full-blood Wagyu 9+, 250 g / 9 ozA$95: the lowest price on the Wagyu list.
- O'Connor tomahawk, grain-fed, 5+, 1.8 kg / 4 lbA$425. Allow up to an hour.
- Wagyu beef skewer from the ash grillRose harissa, spiced salt, pistachio, mint; A$26 each.
02The beef
Four groups on the grill list. Full-blood Wagyu at 9+: Robbins Island rib eye, 500 g / 18 oz, A$320; a 200 g / 7 oz center-cut rib eye from New England, A$170; Shiro Kin rump cap, A$115. First-cross Wagyu: a Chauvel citrus-fed rib eye Delmonico, 7+, 800 g / 28 oz, A$330. Black Angus: the O'Connor grain-fed tomahawk and the Black Onyx T-bone. Pasture-fed breeds: the Galiciana rib eye from a five-year-old animal, and O'Connor sirloin and eye fillet at 3+. The sirloin is the only beef cut marked dry-aged. No number of days is given.
03The fire
Wood and charcoal run the room. Steaks go on the flywheel grill over ironbark embers. An ash grill takes the Wagyu and veal tongue skewers. A wood oven bakes the bread and roasts the lobster and the duck. Steam kettles cook the mussels and pippies. Crown's 2020 release described wood and charcoal grills, wood ovens and steam kettles; Broadsheet adds a robata grill.
04The story
Crown announced Woodcut in 2020 for the opening of Crown Sydney that December. Ross and Sunny Lusted had owned The Bridge Room from 2011 to 2019. Ross Lusted told Time Out the restaurant was planned for three years and had been in the works for about fifteen years. Crown says Woodcut won one hat in the Good Food Guide Awards and an award for Australia's top hotel wine list; it gives no year for either.
05The practical
Level 1 (Ground), Crown Sydney, 1 Barangaroo Avenue. Lunch Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to 14:30; dinner every day, 17:30 to 21:30; the Hickory Bar runs alongside. To change a booking, 02 8871 6500; groups of 13 to 29, 02 8871 7171. Surcharge 10% on Saturdays and 15% on Sundays and public holidays; bookings of 10 or more pay a 10% service fee. Sauces A$6.50 each. Allow 45 minutes for steaks.
- Address
- Crown Sydney, 1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo NSW 2000
- Website
- crownhotels.com.au
- Directions
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How are the steaks cooked at Woodcut?
Over ironbark embers on a bespoke flywheel grill. The menu asks for 45 minutes from ordering, up to an hour for larger cuts.
Where is Woodcut?
On Level 1 (Ground) of Crown Sydney, 1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo.
What beef does Woodcut serve?
Full-blood Wagyu from Robbins Island and others, Chauvel citrus-fed Wagyu, O'Connor and Black Onyx Black Angus, and pasture-fed Galiciana and O'Connor.
How much is a steak at Woodcut?
From A$85 for a 200 g / 7 oz O'Connor eye fillet to A$425 for a 1.8 kg / 4 lb O'Connor tomahawk, before weekend surcharges.
06In Sydney’s selections
07Sources
broadsheet.com.au · broadsheet.com.au · goodfood.com.au · crownhotels.com.au · document-tc.galaxy.tf · crownhotels.com.au · timeout.com · crownsydney.com.au
Last verified Oct. 29, 2026.
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