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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
