
Paula Ives
✓Events and Community Engagement CoordinatorSurry Hills / Sydney, New South Wales
Paula Ives anchors enduring adult friendships through standing monthly dinners, shared family-style feasts, and low-friction rituals across Sydney. She navigates busy calendars to gather friends over fiery Haymarket Thai dishes, Sunday dim sum, and wine bar debriefs at Bar Copains. For Paula, intentional rituals keep lifelong friendships alive through shifting careers, moves, and life stages.
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Restaurant Hubert
Sydney
3 Recommendations
Reviews describe a hidden underground dining room with warm lighting, live music, and seating that feels spacious rather than cramped for a special-feeling group dinner.



Caysorn Thai
Haymarket
3 Recommendations
For a relaxed Haymarket group meal, reviews mention friendly, helpful staff and describe a slightly dated room that still has charm, plus a spot people bring family for a meal.

Bar Copains
Surry Hills
11 Recommendations
For a friends catch-up in Surry Hills, reviews describe a warm, intimate, buzzing atmosphere and say the staff are incredibly friendly and helpful throughout the night.

Edition Roasters
Haymarket
3 Recommendations
For a calm Darling Square coffee catch-up, reviews mention dark concrete interiors and a black/grey palette, and call it a good place to sit and watch the afternoon go by.

Chambers Coffee @ Haymarket
Haymarket
0 Recommendations
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皇庭海鲜舫 Royal Palace Seafood Restaurant
Haymarket
1 Recommendation
Big round tables in an old-school banquet-hall style room suit a chatty group meal, and reviewers describe staff as friendly and attentive without being over the top.
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