The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney will be transforming into an enchanted forest this Vivid festival, with the grassy slopes set to host 15 light sculptures as well as an old school fisherman’s wharf-inspired pop-up bar and eatery.

From the 15 light installations, you won’t want to miss Dancing Grass, a walkable forest of 146 supersized blades of grass (each one 1.5 – 4.5 metres tall), or the  Firefly Field, made up of 5000 lights designed to mimic the movements of flickering fireflies.

If you start to get hungry, you’ll be able to make a lifesaving stop at the the garden’s new fisherman’s wharf pop-up bar and eatery, which will be serving comfort foods to warm your cockles at night.

You’ll be able to reel in eats like battered fish and chips or chunky fish chowder served within the edible confines of a hot, toasty bread roll. For something a bit more high brow, there’ll be lobster mac and cheese covered in a gratin of crispy garlic crumbs. It wouldn’t be a proper seafood shack without a few fried pineapple rings, and here they’re serving them with cinnamon sugar and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 

Drinks will be little light shows themselves, with glowing blue and pink concoctions made from Archie Rose spirits. There will also be New South Wh-Ales or for welcome warmth, try the mulled wine.

The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney pop-up bar will operate nightly from 6pm – 11pm from Friday 24th May through to Saturday 15th June 2019.