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Bars + Pubs

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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Tiki Fridays at Zeta Bar – CBD

25 March 2011 Bars + Pubs
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“Would you like a snow cone, young man?” asks Grant, the chief mixologist at Zeta. If someone offered you an icy treat that looks like this would you turn it down? Of course not.   Tiki Fridays at the Zeta Bar is in its final weeks, offering after-work swillers a bunch of retro cocktails (with [...]

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The Rose Hotel – Chippendale

23 March 2011 Bars + Pubs
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To the uninitiated, the thought of having a drink at a Chippendale local may conjure up images of peeling walls, sticky carpet and a roughly hewn clientele. Who knows, perhaps sometime during the 100-year history of The Rose this may have been a valid scene but today it couldn’t be further from the truth. Located on [...]

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GourmetRabbit Issue 2 – Launch at Harts Pub, The Rocks

14 March 2011 Bars + Pubs
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Feeling proud would have to be an understatement for the vivacious young woman behind GourmetRabbit. Who would this be? Well, none other than Denéa Buckingham. Cause for celebration and a kick-start to it’s launch was held at the heritage listed Harts Pub in The Rocks – pub by day and on this particular night, a [...]

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Lunch at 42° – Surry Hills

8 February 2011 Bars + Pubs
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An absolute glutton for punishment. Yes, I refer to myself.  The record-breaking week-long heatwave this town just endured was a bit of a killer, to say the least. 41°C out in the western ‘burbs and just over 42°C in the city. Crazy stuff. All I can say is without the recent installation of air-con in [...]

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The Palmerston – East Dulwich, London UK

10 November 2010 Bars + Pubs
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For some strange reason I rarely go to a pub for a meal. Why? I have no idea. We have our fair share of pubs and adjoining bistro’s in the Inner West of Sydney yet I seldom take a moment and see what the food is all about. On our recent visit to London we stayed in East Dulwich [...]

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Darley Street Bistro – Newtown

5 August 2010 Bars + Pubs
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When I’m trying out a restaurant for the first time and I find the food isn’t up to scratch I tend to adopt the “three strikes and you’re out” method with many of them. It may be a bit of a naive approach but I just don’t see the point in revisiting a place more [...]

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The Hive Bar – Erskineville

22 May 2010 Bars + Pubs
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Sydney seems to be a city obsessed with the small bar movement – you know, that tiny place tucked away in your neighbourhood where you can hang out with mates and have a natter while sipping on a glass of vino, brew or flouncy cocktail and even a bite to eat. The 90′s was mostly about mega clubs [...]

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