What's on the menu at Vivid Sydney

With over 80 light installations to see, more than 170 creative Ideas talks to be inspired by, and eclectic music performances at over 22 venues across the city, there is no denying that experiencing Vivid Sydney will make you hungry. Thankfully, as Sydney lights up from 27 May to 18 June, food retailers have prepared a delicious offering of Vivid Sydney inspired food and beverages that will satisfy visitors' appetites all over the city.

NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres said, 'Vivid Sydney is set to once again delight visitors with some of Sydney's hippest purveyors of food and beverage presenting a smorgasbord of Vivid-inspired treats that showcase our city's world-class food and wine culture. With so much to choose from, foodies can even plan their own Vivid Sydney dining trail to ensure they're not only experiencing the best light, music and ideas, but they're also tasting the best cocktails, market food, and gelato. It's the perfect addition for a night out at Vivid Sydney."

Here are 14 of the many unique food and beverage experiences on offer at Vivid Sydney:

1.        This year for the first time at Vivid Sydney, two Sydney based production powerhouses, Motti+Smith and Paper Moose have collaborated to bring Martin Place their very own 8 Bits+Bytes burger activation. Throughout the festival, five of Sydney's best burger houses including Mary's, Milk Bar by Café ish, Pub Life Kitchen, Bang Bang, and Sammy's Burger Bar will be making visitors burger dreams come true. Themed like the inside of a vintage arcade game, visitors will be able to vote for their favourite burger in an interactive burger battle which will be tallied in real-time on a digital score board.

2.        For Vivid Sydney 2016, the ground-breaking Songlines will showcase ancient Aboriginal stories on the Sydney Opera House sails. In keeping with this year's stunning Lighting of Sails, restaurants across the Opera House will celebrate Australia's rich culinary heritage with uniquely local ingredients. Opera Bar will serve oyster shots enriched with Indigenous berries and herbs for vibrant colouring, with -bush tucker', including fingerlimes, lemon myrtle and smoked macadamia nuts. Colourful cocktails, a GIF photo booth, projections and lights will add to the playful Vivid Sydney festival atmosphere.

3.        Carriageworks are hosting a series of bespoke dining experiences called Sydney Table, created by Sydney's leading forces in food and creative industries. At each dinner, 50 guests will be treated to an evening designed and prepared by some of Australia's most exciting talents from the fields of food, music, art and design. The line-up includes Designer Vince Frost, Sam Miller from Silvereye and artist Lisa Madigan. For the full program and ticketing information visit:  http://www.vividsydney.com/event/music/sydney-table

4.        Visitors can chow down in Chatswood ahead of previewing the vibrant WildLight – The Bio-Kenetic City installations. Throughout Vivid Sydney at Chatswood, the precinct will have market stalls in the Mall, food trucks on Anderson Street, and the new Asian inspired Hawker lane in Westfield Chatswood. At Chatswood Interchange visitors can enjoy a meal at Chatswood's newest dining precinct, The District, open daily until 11pm. The Concourse, and Chatswood Chase will also offer food options galore with restaurants, desert bars, and coffee shops.

5.        At the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, visitors can sit down, relax and unwind at Busby's Bar for a Tyrrell's wine and a bite to eat as they take in the spectacular light installations and join in their 200th birthday celebrations. For those on the move, Busby's Bites will offer a delicious range of food from gourmet cheese toasty's, beef brisket or lamb shoulder rolls, to heart-warming soups. There are also sweet treats on offer with hot mini doughnuts and Liquid Lindt chocolate shots. Busby's Bar is named after James Busby, who collected vine cuttings from Europe that were planted in the Garden in 1833 which were critical to the evolution of the Australian wine industry of today. Busby's Bar and Busby's Bites will be open from 6pm – 11pm every night during Vivid Sydney.

13.        One burger is never enough, so Blackstar Pastry, Little Marionette and N2 Extreme Gelato have teamed up to create ice cream burgers in Martin Place. For those visitors not boarding the burger bandwagon other on site food offerings include Bar Pho and Sandweesh. Martin Place will host a pop-up bar on-site serving Young Henry's and 4 Pines Beer, Batlow cider, and James Estate Hunter Valley wines.

14.        Parked trucks with scrumptious foodie treats will line Hickson Road Reserve throughout Vivid Sydney serving meals from the likes of Happy as Larry, Urban Pasta, and Agape Organic. The City of Sydney Food Trucks will rotate throughout the festival and will offer everything from yum cha favourites to New York-style pastrami sandwiches, organic pizzas, soft tacos, and gourmet bangers and burgers. The trucks are a great place to grab a quick meal to take with you as you stroll around the famous light walk.

Owned managed and produced by the NSW Government's tourism and major events agency Destination NSW, Vivid Sydney is set to once again transform the city into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas for 23 nights from 27 May to 18 June. For more information visit www.vividsydney.com