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Sydney is one of the fashion capitals of the world, with a wide range of luxury malls, outlet shopping, and markets.

If your schedule doesn’t allow you to cover it all, take a Sydney shopping tour, which will highlight all the current sales at some of Sydney’s biggest malls.

Sydney Shopping, Factory Outlet & Warehouse Bus Tours, NSW

During your shopping tour, you will be offered lunch with a glass of bubbles, where you can sit and relax. Then, in the afternoon, you will head out for more shopping.

Factory Outlet shopping tours are a popular choice, allowing visitors to explore their favourite Direct Factory Outlet stores, known as DFO. Best of all, you will forget about parking problems as the tour bus will drop you off and pick you up at the entrance.

All shopping tours managed by the Sydney Charter Bus Australia are private charters, so different groups do not mix. Destination suggestions in these tours include DFO, Sydney godowns, Alexandria, and Birkenhead Point . Note that half-day and full-day shopping tours are also available.

Bargain Buyers offers warehouse shopping tours, ideal for the frugal shopper keen on experiencing Sydney’s vibrant shopping culture. Vouchers are also available to give you value for money and an unforgettable shopping experience.

Most tours offer hotel pick-up and drop-off, so check the individual tours for inclusions. The best part of these shopping tours is that you can leave all your bags on the bus. Feel free to buy up big without having to lug around all your purchases!

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Sydney shopping tours from the central coast, direct factory outlet tour.

Our 10-seater buses are perfect to grab a few friends and family and spend the day hitting the shops and grabbing a bargain at DFO – Direct Factory Outlets – located in Homebush, Sydney. 

DFO is a premium outlet shopping centre housing 125+ iconic international and Australian brands. Enjoy up to 70% off recommended retail prices all year around. 

Book your private group tour, departing the Central Coast.

Departure options include:

• 8am pickup Morisset train station. 
• Ourimbah train station 8:30am 
• Kariong parklands 9am (Parklands Rd, Kariong)
• Or custom pickup from designated location – contact us to discuss 

From the Central Coast we make our way to Homebush, arriving approximately 10am. Your shopping day concludes at 4pm.

$970 for full day tour up to 10 people. Note: this is a private tour and not open to individuals, your group must book the entire tour bus. Please contact us regarding available dates.

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Our goal is to be the best shopping tour outlet in Sydney.

We are confident that we can deliver on this by offering the following:

• Preparing a list of current best buys emailed before your visit.
• Offering a fantastic range of homewares and giftware at prices that legitimately represent a significant saving on normal retail
• We are happy to pay a commission to each group that visits and pride ourselves on payment of commission within 7 days.
• A comfortable and spacious layout to ensure a warm shopping experience.
• We can dedicate up to 4 registers for bus business and make it an absolute priority to get your group through quickly. We are yet to receive a complaint about delays and attribute this to the fact that we have always had the foresight to provide enough staff for our bus requirements to ensure that your customers are happy.
• We have toilet facilities.
• There is plenty of bus parking.
• We can open early or late any day of the week at any time of year to fit in with your schedule.
• Company principals Dane and Brent are usually on site to ensure that your tour is serviced rather than merely catered for.
• A great gift is donated to every bus.
• Highly knowledgeable staff.
• Morning and afternoon tea facility available on request.
• All sales recorded for your bus.
• We average over $1100 spend per bus.
• Close to many other great outlets and potential lunch stops.

Shopping Tour Planning

The shopping tour industry has changed greatly in recent years with limited options for outlets and tour companies.

We would be happy to liaise with any group organising a potential tour and can happily advise on both itinerary and lunch options.

If you would like more info please contact Brent Pallister on 0411 307 568 or email [email protected]

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We are extremely keen to prove ourselves to both the tour organiser, bus company and individual tour members. To do this, we are providing personalized and friendly service at every stage of the shopping tour, from booking till accounts. Your patronage will never be taken for granted and we are proud of this reputation.

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The Queen Victoria building a great shopping destination

The Queen Victoria Building, or QVB, is a grand Victorian building located in the heart of the Sydney central business district. The elaborate Romanesque Revival architecture presents a contrast to the modern buildings around it. Measuring 190 metres long by 30 wide, it fills an entire city block, bounded by George, Market York and Druitt Streets.

Around and About Bus Hire & Tours offers a great Sydney bus hire tours as well as Sydney shopping tours.

The building has a series of domes and domelets with exquisite stained glass windows and extensive wood panelling throughout.

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Ever wondered why Sydneysiders are so innately stylish? This is your chance to learn their secrets, with guided shopping tours that let you in on lesser-known stores and personal styling session that show you just how to put an outfit together. Make the most of insider tips as you discover Sydney’s fashion scene.

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Sydney shoppers are spoiled with gleaming shopping centres , charming outdoor shopping streets , bustling markets and flagship designer stores. It can be hard to know where to start, which is where the expert guides from Splendour Tailored Tours come in. They'll help you find exactly what you’re looking for, and tours include a gourmet lunch and champagne to boot.

If budget is a consideration, Shop and Save Tours have you covered. These experts will ensure you get what you're after and for the best price in town. Prefer an alternative fashion scene? Culture Scouts Walking Tours explore the inner city's cultural hubs through the lens of art, food, history and retail. If you prefer something one-off or handmade, these guys know where to go.

Personal stylists

If you want a one-on-one experience, a personal styling session is the answer. Whether it's finding that perfect outfit for a special occasion or a wardrobe overhaul, department stores David Jones and Myer plus shopping center Westfield Sydney have personal stylists and personal shoppers to tailor an experience just for you.

Australian Fashion Week

The highlight of Sydney's fashion calendar is Afterpay Australian Fashion Week , a glittering five-day gala in May. While it's a ticketed, industry-only event, it spawns satellite consumer events and gives shoppers a glimpse of the trends they'll be buying next season.

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Why Do We Love ‘The Bear’ So Much?

The grit, the merch, the biceps. Charting the cultural phenomenon that sparked new interest in the people behind the scenes at restaurants — or at least, in their stuff.

By Tejal Rao

The first time I heard a stranger say “corner” outside a kitchen, I was taken by surprise, but pretty soon, I lost count. After the FX show “The Bear” began streaming on Hulu in 2022, shouting out phrases that bounce around professional kitchens became something of a national bit.

In Bon Appétit, Sarah York coined the term Line Cook Summer to describe the frenzy over Jeremy Allen White’s character, Carmen Berzatto — a soft, dirtbag type. Even before the Calvin Klein underwear ad , it was perfectly captured in a New Yorker cartoon by Emily Flake. In it, a woman — flushed, happy, naked — lies in bed next to her befuddled husband, who asks, “So … what was all that ‘Yes, Chef’ stuff about?”

The show drove affection toward a big-hearted, dysfunctional kitchen crew at an unlikely moment, two years into the pandemic, after so many investigations into abusive chefs and work environments that the word “toxic” had become not just vague, but inadequate.

The third season begins streaming on Wednesday, and the trailer already has nine million views on YouTube. At least three of those were me, trying to wrap my mind around the expanse of the “Bear” effect — I’ve been fascinated by chefs onscreen for decades.

The Swedish Chef, his Muppet eyes hidden under caterpillar brows and floppy toque, tickling the shrimp, was a mildly distressing clown. The fussy, elegant Italian brothers in “ Big Night ,” played by Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, blurred the dysfunction of a restaurant “family” with their own. Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, the underappreciated perfectionist of “Friends,” cooked her way through the most complex feelings a ’90s sitcom would allow. And Martina Gedeck only seemed impenetrable as the second-best chef in Hamburg in the 2001 German movie “ Mostly Martha .”

Jon Favreau was charming in “ Chef ,” and Bradley Cooper overplayed it in “ Burnt ,” though something about both those chefs struck me as faintly embarrassing. Most recently, Ralph Fiennes played the part as a cartoonish psychopath in “ The Menu .” And speaking of cartoons, animation has delivered some of our most delicious performances, including Bob from “ Bob’s Burgers ” — a perpetually broke small-town burger chef and a grumpy, but loving dad, hopelessly devoted to his craft.

None of these chefs landed with the sweaty force of Carmy, trying and failing to cook at the highest level without causing any damage. The profoundly unglamorous, relentless kitchen work in the show was widely complimented as “realistic,” as something that might even deepen our understanding of restaurants.

If you were following along, “The Bear” didn’t just get food and cooking right. It got Chicago right, it got the culture of the workplace right, it got the complexity of grief right, it got the devastation of addiction right, it got the beauty of good hospitality right — along with the tortured ache that can lurk behind it.

It also got that the chef wasn’t the only important character in a restaurant, and slowly expanded its story lines into the emotional lives of the other people prepping, washing dishes, scrubbing walk-ins and fixing toilets through dysfunction and disaster.

Restaurants featured on the show — even for a few moments — experienced a surge in business. Italian beef sales boomed . A cottage industry of gastro tourism bloomed in Chicago, where you can hop a bus and take a tour inspired by the show (led by someone dressed as Carmy).

But so much of the pleasure of watching “The Bear” has been in the investigative work that followed each episode — where exactly were the characters eating, what were they wearing, how were they cooking? We needed to know.

To meet our collective appetite for the characters’ stuff, users on Reddit and TikTok, along with editors and writers, identified and analyzed the minutiae of everything that appeared on the show. We could cook with the same San Marzano tomatoes . Replicate the cookbook collection . Wear the exact brand of white T-shirt that hugs Carmy’s biceps. Shop for Sydney’s exquisite scarves. Label our quart containers at home with the same green painter’s tape .

We stripped the kitchen for its parts: lingo, recipes, shoes. There was so much excitement over what was “real,” but little interest in the real, tedious issues restaurants were dealing with.

The effect of the “Bear” effect on us has been an interest, not so much in the people who work in kitchens, but in their aesthetic. In the sweet, shoppable details of the cook’s accessories, from the warped quart container to the vintage jacket .

If “The Bear” attuned us to the realities of working in professional kitchens, primed us for understanding and insight into the restaurant industry’s complexities, the “Bear” effect pulled us away in search of a pair of Birkenstock Tokios. No item has been too small to covet.

Maybe this is just how we watch TV now, but after I finished the second season , I gave in to the impulse to buy a fresh set of Sharpies for my home kitchen.

Before I even had them in my hands, I imagined tearing the crinkly plastic that held them in place away from the cardboard. I imagined the pleasure of writing with a fresh and inky nib. And when I finally uncapped a pen to gratuitously mark a Cambro of flour in my home kitchen, I could almost pretend that the show was bleeding over into my real life.

Follow New York Times Cooking on Instagram , Facebook , YouTube , TikTok and Pinterest . Get regular updates from New York Times Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice .

A picture caption with an earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the actor who plays the chef Sydney Adamu, She is Ayo Edebiri, not Edibri.

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Tejal Rao is a critic at large for the Food section and contributes regularly to The New York Times Magazine. More about Tejal Rao