Japanese cocktail bar in Sydney CBD
TUES - SAT
5PM - 12AM (FRI TILL 1.30AM)
BOOKINGS & WALK-INS WELCOME
Cocktail bar featured in
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Where Japanese craft meets Sydney sophistication
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Kahii Is Sydney's New Dedicated Tea & Coffee Cocktail Bar in a Heritage Building
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Kahii After Dark: Sydney’s First Tea & Coffee Cocktail Bar
Tea and coffee cocktails on Kent Street
The lights come down at five. Same room, different hour. Kahii’s bar sits in a heritage-listed 1910 warehouse that has been home to Bushells and Robert Timms, so tea and coffee run through most of the seasonal cocktail list.
The list changes every three months, with house signatures and classics alongside.
Cocktails from Jude Zhu and Flynn McLennan. Tea and coffee run through most of the seasonal list, alongside house signatures and classics done properly. Sake and Japanese whisky sit alongside.
Small plates come from the Kuro kitchen next door, and the wine list is shared with Kuro.
Walk in for a drink after work, or book a table for the night.
Happy hour runs Tuesday to Saturday, 5pm to 7pm.
The room
Leather banquettes line the walls and a black stone bar sits at the centre of the room.
The building is heritage-listed and dates from 1910. Bushells and Robert Timms both ran tea and coffee warehouses here.
Sit at the bar, or take a banquette.
It suits a drink after work, a date, or a small group.
Bigger groups can book ahead.
Small plates come from the Kuro kitchen next door until 9.30pm.
Walk in or book online.
Bookings and walk-ins welcome
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The wine list
One cellar, shared with Kuro next door.
Mostly French, from Old World labels to newer producers, with wines by the glass.
The list is built by Tom Subileau, Co-Head Chef & Sommelier at Kuro, and was awarded Two Glasses at the 2025 and 2026 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Tom was named in the inaugural Champagne Louis Roederer Top 100 Sommeliers Australia 2026.
Bookings and walk-ins welcome
Happy hour
Tuesday to Saturday, 5pm to 7pm.
$16 cocktails, $3 oysters (limit six), $14 house wine, $10 Kirin and snacks from $7. One drink minimum per person.
Walk in. Snacks from 5pm, and the full bar menu from the Kuro kitchen from 5.30pm.
Bookings and walk-ins welcome
Bar food from the Kuro kitchen
Oysters, Kuro fried chicken, ox tongue, ceviche and kingfish tataki, with snacks to start. Kitchen Tuesday to Saturday, 5.30pm to 9.30pm last order.
Low light, good music
Low light, the black stone bar and music kept at a level you can talk over.
Bookings and walk-ins welcome
Private functions
The whole room can be booked from 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday: 18 seated or 40 standing.
We’ve hosted Christmas functions, birthdays and product launches.
Send an enquiry and we’ll put together the food and drinks.
FAQs
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A Japanese kissaten by day and a cocktail bar by night. Coffee, matcha and Japanese lunch on weekdays from 8am; from 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday, seasonal cocktails, sake and Japanese whisky, the wine list shared with Kuro, and small plates from the Kuro kitchen next door.
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We are situated in the lobby of the heritage-listed building at 364 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.
It is a 1910 warehouse that has been home to Bushells and Robert Timms, and the National Phonograph Company. The machine is gone. The cylinders remain.
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Walk-ins are welcome; however, we recommend making a reservation for larger groups, to ensure availability.
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The cocktail list draws on the building’s history as a tea and coffee warehouse, and changes every three months. Tea and coffee run through most of it, alongside house signatures and classics, with sake and Japanese whisky. The wine list is shared with Kuro next door, built by Tom Subileau, and was awarded Two Glasses at the 2025 and 2026 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
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Small plates come from the Kuro kitchen next door: oysters, Kuro fried chicken, ox tongue, ceviche and kingfish tataki. Kitchen Tuesday to Saturday, 5.30pm to 9.30pm last order.
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Happy hour runs Tuesday to Saturday, 5–7pm. Cocktails $16, oysters $3 each (limit six per person), house red or white $14, Kirin Ichiban $10, and snacks from $7. Minimum one drink per person.
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Yes. Our intimate setting can be booked from 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday, for 18 seated or 40 standing. Fill in the private event form here to discuss your event requirements and we will be in touch.
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Yes. During the day, we serve specialty coffee, including our popular Black Sesame Cloud, as well as authentic matcha sourced directly from Shizuoka, Japan.
By night, the bar makes non-alcoholic drinks to order, and there are three mocktails on the seasonal list.
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Yes. Town Hall Station is about 250 metres away, and Wynyard is around a five-minute walk via Wynyard Walk.
