Manjit’s @ the wharf

Manjit’s @ the wharf is the Indian restaurant on King Street Wharf, at 49 Lime Street. The Manjit’s name has been cooking Punjabi food in Sydney since the 1980s, and this waterfront room is the family’s harbour outpost.

The orders that define it are the butter chicken and the naan with beef curry, and that is the right way to read the kitchen: North Indian classics done in a dining room setting rather than a quick curry house. Plates are built to share, and the tandoor does the work the harbour view cannot.

It suits families, larger tables, and anyone on the wharf who wants something that is not seafood or pub food, because it is the only Indian kitchen on the strip. Banquet style ordering works best with four or more.

Parking near Manjit’s

The question people actually ask. The closest option is the King Street Wharf car park on Shelley Street, with Sun Parking on Sussex Street a few minutes up; after 5pm the evening flat rate is the sensible choice for dinner. Manjit’s sits at the Lime Street end: see the precinct map for the walk in.

Hours

Open seven days. Midday to 10:30pm most days, with Saturday running dinner only from 5:30pm. If you are coming Saturday lunch, it will not be open; the rest of the week it will.

For a different share-plate room nearby, Mecca Bah runs Middle Eastern until 9pm most nights, and the full strip is at all restaurants.