Monday Barhop
Sitting and sipping in Sydney's best small bars every Monday. Check here for regular reviews.
Bulletin Place
Every time the Monday Barhop crew gets together, an inevitable conversation will be had about we should have our own bar. It started with “we could start a bar” and … Continue reading
The Hazy Rose
Class and quality. The Hazy Rose is decked out with upholstered chairs and polished wood tables; tassles, pineapples and patterned olive wallpaper. Its décor is a fusion of colonial exotica … Continue reading
The Soda Factory
The Hotdog, the bouncer and the fridge door. No, not the long lost C.S Lewis novel of magical wieners, buff men and secret worlds hidden within fridges, the Soda Factory … Continue reading
Foley Lane
Tucked neatly into a corner of Taylor Square, Foley Lane is like your Spanish small bar that has found a steady girlfriend and got a pay rise, and is finally, … Continue reading
Jester Seeds
Jester’s might look like another hole in the wall but venture through the skinny hallway and you may find yourself a little like that girl who walked through that ugly … Continue reading
Small Bar
In the beginning there was a bar. And that bar was small. It was the very first small bar in Sydney. The first of its kind to forge a path … Continue reading
Hinky Dinks
Do you ever wish you were growing up in the 1950s? When there was only one type of milk and it was delivered to your door every morning, when television … Continue reading
The Little Guy
I visited The Little Guy twice before writing this review, and on each occasion one thing really stood out – how delightful the bar staff were. I’m talking a can-we-please-be-friends … Continue reading
Madame Fling Flong
For a long time Madame Fling Flong was one of a rare breed of small cocktail bars. The Madame inhabited the second floor above a tapas restaurant on the King … Continue reading
121BC
I. Was. On. Fire. Absolutely killing it. Charming smile, seductive eyes, slight brushing of the legs. The red wine in my hand and the dim lighting were doing wonders for … Continue reading
It seems a lifetime since I last used my pockets to actually carry things. But I have fond, rose-coloured memories of diving my hand into their fabric-y depths to find … Continue reading
Bar Week Sydney 2012
“If you want to sip your delicious creation from an upturned shower cap or an old watering can then more power to you.” – Schweppes Bar Week – what turned … Continue reading
Palmer & Co.
Palmer and Co is built inside Sydney’s first source of water. I am not sure what others visualise, but the civil engineer in me was thrilled to learn this fact. … Continue reading
Arcadia Liquors
Welcome to Arcadia Liquors – the newest addition to the burgeoning small bar scene of Redfern. Straight off the bat, Arcadia wins the award for most deceptively addressed and most … Continue reading
Assembly Bar
“I love Assembly Bar!” That’s what a fellow barhopper told me a few days before we were scheduled to go, so trusting her taste, I wiled away my Monday at … Continue reading
Mojo Record Bar
Have you ever thought about how you wanted to die? You know, really old in bed surrounded by all your family, saving a bus full of school children, or maybe … Continue reading
Love, Tilly Devine
To many of us budding wine connoisseurs, a chance to indulge at a quaint bar flaunting over 250 wines sounds utterly delicious. So, we packed our adjectives and arrived at … Continue reading
Spooning Goats
We had heard a lot about Spooning Goats on the twitterverse of late. Following the process of opening up a new small bar in Sydney tweet by tweet was thoroughly … Continue reading
Since I Left You
I had been super pumped for weeks about hitting up Since I Left You. I knew nothing about it except that it was named after a brilliant Avalanches song – … Continue reading
Freda’s Bar
As seems to be requisite for small bars, the entrance to Freda’s Bar is at the end of an unassuming alleyway. The street style posters pasted one after the other … Continue reading
The Black Sheep
Mushrooms and Mario Kart – two solid reasons you should go check out the Black Sheep at Newtown. Not the red mushroom that will make Mario go faster but the … Continue reading
Gardel’s Bar
Gardel’s – a bar that can not be pigeonholed by genre nor geography. Where cowhide adorns furniture, alongside studded, crimson leather. Where cocktails garnished with a single rose petal are … Continue reading
The Grasshopper
Barhoppers. Grasshoppers. A match made in literary heaven. But was this punnalicious coincidence a precursor for our bar experience? Maybe not heaven, but we’re on our way. Any inner city … Continue reading
Grandma’s Bar
From the parrot-covered wallpaper to the homemade ginger beer served in tin mugs, Grandma knows how to spoil their grandchildren. – Being one of the few left in this city … Continue reading
Baxter Inn
The Baxter Inn is masculine and old American without being too much of either. Descend down into the dimly-lit drinking den and it will wrap you up in whisky-scented charm. … Continue reading
Stitch Bar
I had high expectations for Stitch. Really, really high expectations. I heard ‘Sewing’ and ‘Bar,’ and ‘Hotdog’ all in the same sentence and they skyrocketed to heights Bob Marley would … Continue reading
