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Bars + Pubs

Quadrant – CBD

30 January 2012 Bars + Pubs
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Playing tourist in your own city generally involves guiding an interstate or overseas visiter around the sights and icons that make your city unique. I’m kind of glad that when I get visitors they’re more interested in hanging out with us in our own neighbourhood and eating at restaurants off the well-trodden tourist trail. Yes the [...]

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It’s a Standard thing – Meatpacking, NYC

20 January 2012 Bars + Pubs
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Within a couple of days of staying in Manhattan we found ourselves walking the High Line as many tourists tend to do on any visit to New York. It’s a great way to escape the traffic and meander above the streets, especially in the morning when there are less humans jossling for their own piece [...]

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The Spotted Pig – West Village, NYC

13 January 2012 Bars + Pubs
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A one-star Michelin rated gastro pub in Manhattan that has a burger ranked in America’s top 25? Is that enough reason to poke your snout in and take a gander? Well, of course! The West Village has many little treasures, as does the entire island, but if you’re in New York for less than 48 hours you [...]

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Le Chifley Bistrot à Vin – CBD

1 August 2011 Bars + Pubs
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I really love the name of this place. It conjures up images of a dimly lit room with wood panelling on the walls, brass fittings, blistered mirrors, padded armchairs and booths, French chatter and accordion tunes. People tucking into confit de canard, maybe some escargot and sipping on a beautifully dry muscadet from the Loire Valley [...]

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Darlie Laundromatic – Darlinghurst

18 July 2011 Bars + Pubs
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What do you get when you cross a DJ, an architect, a builder and a former laundromat? Throw in a couple of mates, one of which is a chef, and you have a chilled out pocket-sized drinking hole slash music venue slash café slash gallery in the back streets of Darlinghurst. The washing machines and dryers may be gone but as a reminder of [...]

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Bench Wine Bar – Newtown

15 July 2011 Bars + Pubs
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It’s difficult to comprehend that five years have already passed while living in Sydneys inner west. Saying goodbye to 9 years of apartment life in Pyrmont was pretty easy and finally buying a house in Erskineville was a dream come true. The back yard is now renovated, the new kitchen is complete and already my sights are [...]

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4143 at the James Barnes – Alexandria

24 June 2011 Alexandria
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I’ve never considered Alexandria a hot-spot in terms of having a wealth of places to lounge back with mates for a few bevvies or sit and enjoy a civilised meal. Yes there are a couple of pubs and handful of cafés dotted around this mainly industrial inner-city suburb but nothing quite like this recently-opened bar and bistro on the corner of Bourke and [...]

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Carlisle Castle Bistro – Newtown

3 June 2011 Bars + Pubs
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How is it that a pub bistro as isolated as this is gang-busters virtually every night? I’d understand if it was on King Street, but in the jumble of narrow residential backstreets a few blocks back from the main strip? From the outside it has the appearance of any ocker pub you’ve come across in this [...]

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