AN old mate of mine, Pat Adams was in Melbourne today for the tennis and supplied a few images of the city’s oldest pub. Pat dropped into the Duke of Wellington at the corner of Flinders and Russell Street for… Read More ›
Reviews
The Carrington Hotel, Surry Hills
REVIEW: The Carrington Hotel sits in what was once one of Sydney’s toughest suburbs. She was a rough old pub in her day, frequented by shady characters, SP bookies, gun carrying drinkers, and customers who generally knew how to use… Read More ›
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Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
REVIEW: She’s not your prettiest pub, but she’s definitely one of Sydney’s friendliest. The Friend in Hand, in the quiet back streets of Glebe, is also unique in that it retains the quaint name it was given over 150 years… Read More ›
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Swanson Hotel Erskineville
REVIEW: We paid a visit to Erskinville’s Swanson Hotel over the weekend for lunch, and were pleasantly surprised. The former Kurrajong Hotel, bought by the Balmain Pub Group, was transformed into a semi-upmarket watering hole, with a British West… Read More ›
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The Dunkirk Hotel, Pyrmont
REVIEW: There’s something special about a working class, traditional style Australian pub – especially in Sydney. Sadly though, they’re vanishing as quickly as the characters who frequent them. Today’s weekend pub lunch took us to the Dunkirk Hotel, or ‘The… Read More ›
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Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo
REVIEW: Woolloomooloo’s Tilbury Hotel was the destination for this weekend’s pub lunch; a pub of contradiction, which I’ll explain a little later… Although its working class, waterside worker days have been long assigned to the pages of history, the modernised Tilbury… Read More ›
