Bar Bruno is the Italian all-day room the Sydney CBD has been quietly missing. From the Odd Culture team, it sits on a high-ceiling corner just off Bridge Street and trades from 7am espresso through to a late aperitivo hour with a Negroni list built for the after-work crowd.

The food is what executive chef Jordan Blackman calls 'really nice versions of familiar plates': ricotta-stuffed fried olives, pistachio pesto casarecce, a Milan-style cotoletta that hangs over the edge of the plate. The pasta is rolled and cut in-house, the cotoletta pounded to order.

It joins a growing roster of CBD-led openings — Aenza, Sakura House, Razz Room — that are quietly rebuilding the after-five trade in the city centre.