Shamiat is a family-run Syrian joint that can cure most of your hunger pangs throughout the day. In addition to its spacious family-style restaurant, it offers a dessert shop and an all-day cafe. Around since 2019, the humble diner is run by partners Helda Almorani and Atallah Abo, who fled the civil war in Syria in 2016 and moved to Australia.

Here, the married couple serve home-style dishes that they’ve perfected over more than 25 years. By day, head to the cafe for its traditional Syrian breakfasts. The Family Breakfast is the best way to try everything – think fried eggs and haloumi, pickles and spreads, foul mudammas (a hearty fava bean stew) and fatteh (a yoghurt, flatbread and chickpea dish).

After breakfast, you can stop by the sweets shop for syrupy slabs of baklava, rosewater-laced rice pudding and date-filled ma’amoul biscuits. Or shuffle into the adjoining restaurant for another feed, like lamb-stuffed kibbeh, chargrilled chicken skewers and vibrant muhammara (a chunky walnut, capsicum and pomegranate molasses spread). Plus, you can bring your own beer and wine for a small corkage fee.

Reflecting a traditional Damascus dining room, the space is adorned with ceramic tiled arches on the walls plus stained-glass lanterns and carved wooden panels hanging from the ceiling.