Palace Hotel, Darlinghurst By MICK ROBERTS © THE Palace Hotel was first licensed in December 1878. A craft beer pub, specialising only in Australian brewed beers, the Palace at the corner of Flinders Street and South Dowling… Read More ›
WHEN I called into the Rose Hotel on busy Cleveland Street at Darlington for a Sunday beer, there wasn’t a soul in the main bar… Strange I thought, so I ventured further into the pub finding most customers were eating… Read More ›
GENTRIFICATION is around the corner for arguably Sydney’s last working class inner-suburb, Redfern. But, for those who appreciate the remnants of working class Sydney, there’s still a few traditional pubs worth a visit. One of my favourite Redfern pubs is… Read More ›
“LET’S drop into the ‘Shakey’ for a bite and a beer,” was my suggestion as we battled the traffic towards Sydney from Wollongong today. A morning visiting dad in Coledale Hospital, and the thirst inducing drive north to Sydney, through… Read More ›
WE ended our recent road trip to the former gold mining villages and towns of central west NSW by calling into historic Canowindra, located between Orange and Cowra. Where the town’s pubs trade is the curving main street, which is partly an urban… Read More ›
CONTINUING our road trip to the former gold mining towns of central west NSW, we left the Railway Hotel at Spring Hill for the charm of another single storey brick pub, the Cargo Inn. The drive from Spring Hill, via… Read More ›
I RECKON it’s more than appropriate that a bloke who watched Australia’s first passenger train puff its way between Sydney and Granville in 1855 names his pub the Railway Hotel. Among the thousands of Sydneysiders who gathered… Read More ›
I DROPPED by the North Annandale Hotel, in Sydney’s inner-west, for a beer after work today. It’s a ripper. The pub was busy with what looked like a regular afternoon crowd, watching sport on the large screens, or chatting over… Read More ›
ON Time Gents’ road trips, we sometimes stumble upon pubs that can only be described as pure treasures. On one of our recent Sunday drives we visited a number of small villages and towns in the central west region of… Read More ›