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Events
Almost every SRG room sits on water — a wharf, a marina, a beach, a bay or a lake. That is the practical fact behind every event held in one of them: where the room is decides a great deal about how the night goes.
Seventeen spaces across the group take anything from a table of twelve to a whole precinct of 2,500. Some are entire restaurants closed for the evening, some are private rooms working inside a busy dining room, and one of them is an ex-Navy destroyer. The events team works through menus, timings and suppliers with you.
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Birthdays, engagements, anniversaries, and the dinners that mark something without needing a theme. Most of these fit inside a private dining room: Riva's seats 40, Ripples Rose Bay's seats 20 with its own balcony over the marina, Sails' seats 20, and the White Room at Chowder Bay seats 12.
For larger numbers, whole venues can be taken exclusively — Noi for 40, The Fenwick's Gallery for 50, Ripples Little Manly for 60 on the sand. Menus are usually banquet-style, which keeps everyone eating together.
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Conferences, client dinners, workshops and end-of-year nights. The Ballroom at The Langham seats 150 or holds 200 standing and divides in two; the Drawing Room takes 100 seated with an original fireplace still in it. The James splits into semi-private north and south sections, seating 54 and 40, without leaving the dining room.
At the Maritime Museum the scale changes again. The Theatre seats 210 with full AV and tiered seating, the Terrace Room seats 130 behind floor-to-ceiling glass, and the Lighthouse Gallery takes 250 at banquet or 350 theatre-style, with a loading dock wide enough to bring in a car or a boat.
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Product launches, media nights, and anything that needs a backdrop worth photographing. The Ben Lexcen Terrace sits above the boardwalk at Darling Harbour and holds 400 for cocktails. HMAS Vampire, the ex-Navy destroyer moored beside it, takes 120 across its upper decks and helipad.
Closer in, the wharf at Akti holds 300, the bar at Summer Salt holds 60 above Elouera Beach, and The Nielsen's Beach Club has its own bar and deck on the sand at Shark Beach. Each one gives a launch a location rather than just a room.
Event spaces
Aqua takes over for occasions: a room above the North Sydney Olympic Pool, layered with art and interiors with a little theatre in them, for milestone dinners, corporate events and the bigger celebrations.
Seated it holds up to 130, or 150 for a cocktail party, with menus and drinks set for the night.
Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Riva takes the whole floor above Rose Bay Marina — 120 seated or 140 standing — with the harbour along one side and the coastal Italian fit-out handling the rest. It works for a long lunch that runs into the evening as easily as for a set-piece dinner.
The private dining room seats 40 or holds 80 standing. Same linen, rattan and washed-out colour, same view over the marina, fewer people in it.
Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Sails can be taken whole — 92 seated, 120 for a cocktail party — on the Lavender Bay foreshore, with the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge across the water. Seasonal Australian menus, and a considered wine list.
One side of the restaurant can be reserved on its own for 35, which keeps the main room's buzz next door. The private dining room is smaller again: 20 seated, 30 standing, with the water still in view.
Exclusive · Half Exclusive · Private Dining Room
The whole of Akti holds 220 seated or 300 standing, which makes it one of the largest rooms in the group and the natural choice for a party that needs room.
Half the venue can be taken instead, for 100 seated or 120 standing. The private dining room seats 28 under high ceilings, with ceramic work across the walls.
Exclusive · Half Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Ventuno takes 100 seated or 130 standing across the terrace and the dining room, right on Walsh Bay. Share-style Italian menus, wine that keeps arriving, and the harbour a few steps away.
The private dining room is next door at 8/21 Hickson Road: 60 seated or 90 standing, with playful artwork and a mural across a full wall.
Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Exclusive hire at Chowder Bay takes 100 seated or 200 standing, in the old marine depot at Clifton Gardens with the harbour a few metres off the deck.
The AquaMine Room seats 50 or holds 100 and keeps its heritage bones on show. The White Room seats 12 — small, private, and full of the building's character.
Exclusive · Half Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Ripples Watsons Bay opens in early 2027 inside the heritage-listed Dunbar House, and is taking event enquiries ahead of that. The whole top floor can be hired exclusively, with a balcony running along the harbour side.
Capacities are 110 seated, 150 for a cocktail party, 80 theatre-style or 40 in a U-shape.
Exclusive · Half Exclusive · Private Dining Room
The whole of Ripples Rose Bay takes 90 seated or 100 standing on the marina, alfresco areas included, with seasonal modern Australian menus.
The private dining room seats 20 or holds 30 and has its own waterfront balcony over the marina — the best small room on this stretch of the harbour.
Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Summer Salt takes 190 seated or 220 standing above Elouera Beach, with the ocean filling the windows and a seafood-led menu underneath it.
It also divides: the north half of the dining room seats 48, the south half 76, the bar holds 60 for a cocktail party, and the private dining room seats 14.
Exclusive · Half Exclusive · Private Dining Room · Bar
The whole first floor above the Budgewoi Hotel can be taken over: Mediterranean interiors, a menu of bold Italian flavours, and the lake showing between the buildings.
The Cellar sits inside the main dining room, semi-private, for a smaller group — separate enough to feel like your own table, close enough to keep the noise of the restaurant.
Exclusive · Private Dining Room
Suppliers
A short list of suppliers works regularly across these venues. Casa Studio styles and plans weddings, corporate functions and events. Platinum DJ Services covers weddings and corporate nights. Days Like These Events is the third name SRG points people towards.
Casa Studio
Stylists & Planners · Wedding · Corporate Function · Events
Platinum DJ Services
DJs · Wedding · Corporate Function
Days Like These Events