SkyFeast or Infinity: What the Two Sydney Tower Restaurants Actually Include
Updated September 17, 2026 · 8 min read
Two restaurants, one revolving floor, a price gap of €37.71. The listings describe both as dining with a 360-degree view, which is true and useless. The real differences are structural: what is on the plate, how long you are there, and what happens if you eat less than they expect.
Start with the thing that applies to both, because it decides more bookings than the menu does.
Neither of them includes the observation deck
The venue states it in its own FAQ: “our standard buffet prices only include our buffet, and the lift pass to our restaurant. The observation deck is managed by a separate company.” And further: “the Observation Deck utilises a separate lift, and they do not allow public access. Unfortunately, you cannot go straight from our venue to the observation deck.”
So if the plan was dinner upstairs and then a wander round the deck, it does not work in either direction. The deck is a separate ticket at €17.93 and a separate lift, and it is covered in Sydney Tower Eye or SkyFeast?.
The comparison
| SkyFeast | Infinity by Mark Best | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Buffet, more than 30 international dishes from an open kitchen | Seated dining, courses |
| Listed duration | 1.5 hours | 2 hours |
| Our from-price | €61.20 | €98.91 |
| Reviews | 2,421 · 4.6 stars | 276 · 4.5 stars |
| Children | No separate kids menu; minimum A$45 per child | Kids menu at A$50 per person; no minimum spend |
| Included | Buffet and lift pass to the restaurant | Sydney Tower lift access to the restaurant |
The review counts are the most telling line. SkyFeast has nine times as many. That is not a quality verdict – both sit within a tenth of a star of each other – it is a statement about who books what. SkyFeast is what Sydney visitors book. Infinity is what a smaller number of people book deliberately.
SkyFeast: the honest version of a buffet with a view
More than 30 dishes, including seafood and desserts, from an open kitchen, while the floor turns. The operator’s own line is that you “create your own culinary tour of the world” 82 floors above the street.
What that means in practice, and what 2,421 reviews at 4.6 stars is really measuring: this is a competent hotel-grade buffet in a location no hotel buffet can match. Nobody goes for the food. They go because the room turns and they can go back for more.
When it is the right call: you are with a family or a group with different appetites, you want a fixed price, and you want to stay long enough to see the full rotation. Unlimited means the teenager eats, which at Sydney prices is not a small consideration.
When it is not: you eat one plate and stop. At €61.20 for a single trip to a buffet, the maths turns against you faster than at almost any other restaurant in the city.
Service runs in two blocks. SkyFeast publishes lunch from noon to 3:30 pm on weekdays and from 11 am at weekends, last entry at 2 pm either way, and dinner from 5 pm to 10:30 pm with last entry at 9 pm, seven days a week. The 1.5-hour figure on the booking listing is the length of your sitting, not the opening window – you do not have the floor for the evening.
The sting is in its FAQ, and it is the thing nobody reads before booking: “a minimum standard reservation price per adult and $45 per kid.” A minimum spend is not a menu price. It means that if your table books in and orders less than that figure, you are charged it anyway. The adult figure is not published on the FAQ; ask for it when you reserve, particularly if two people at your table intend to eat lightly.
Infinity: fewer covers, more structure, no minimum spend
Infinity by Mark Best is the fine-dining venue in the same tower, listed at 2 hours, and our inventory carries it at €98.91 with 276 reviews at 4.5 stars.
The thing that surprises people, given the price gap, is the answer in its own FAQ to the minimum-spend question: “No, there is no minimum spend required.” The more expensive restaurant is the one that does not oblige you to hit a number.
When Infinity is the right call: two of you, an occasion, and you want to sit down for two hours with a menu rather than a queue. The seated format also means the view is at your table for the whole meal rather than at whichever table you happened to find.
When it is not: when what you wanted was volume. A buffet where you go back four times is a different proposition from three courses, and at €98.91 against €61.20 the gap is real.
The children question, answered properly
This is where the two venues swap places, and it is the opposite of what the prices suggest.
SkyFeast has no children’s menu at all. Its FAQ says so plainly: “This the same buffet menu as for adults” and “There is no kid specific menu with the buffet open to all ages.” Children aged 15 and under require adult supervision at all times, and the A$45 per child minimum applies. High chairs and space for prams are available, but the venue asks you to ring the reservations team ahead so they can be set aside.
Infinity does have one: a kids menu at A$50 per person, listed as a choice of fettuccine bolognese, fish and chips, or butter and parmesan risotto. Children under 18 require adult supervision. High chairs are available and there is room for prams and strollers.
So a family of two adults and two children faces A$90 in child minimums at the buffet with no child-appropriate food guaranteed, against A$100 for two children’s plates at the fine-dining venue where the dish list is something a nine-year-old will recognise. That is much closer than the headline prices imply.
Neither is cheap, and it is worth saying the obvious: a revolving restaurant is a novelty that wears off in about fifteen minutes for a small child, after which you are 82 floors up with nowhere to walk to. For a family, the honest alternatives are a harbour dinner cruise with buffet at €48.83 – where there is a deck to move around on – or eating at ground level and spending the difference on the zoo and aquarium.
What €98.91 buys elsewhere in Sydney
This is the comparison the tower’s own pages will never make, and it is the one that decides whether either restaurant is worth it.
- Harbour dinner cruise with a 3, 4 or 5-course menu: €79.74, 1,059 reviews, 4.4 stars.
- Harbour dinner cruise with buffet: €48.83, 870 reviews.
- Tall Ship twilight dinner cruise: €67.38.
The cruises move past the Opera House and under the bridge at eye level. The tower looks down on both from two kilometres inland. If the buildings are what you came for, the water wins; if the whole city laid out at once is what you want, the tower wins. That is the actual choice, and it is not about food at all.
The full set is on the harbour cruises page, and the argument between a cruise, a lunch cruise and getting in a kayak is in cruise, lunch or kayak.
Short answer
SkyFeast if you are adults who will go back for seconds – and ask what the adult minimum reservation price is before you confirm. Infinity if you are two and it is an occasion, or if you are bringing children who need a menu written for them. Neither if what you actually wanted was the view – that is the €17.93 deck ticket, on a different lift, and it will not be added to your dinner.
