The Bear Bar Craft Beer If you haven’t been to The Bear Bar in Haymarket, I thoroughly recommend you give it ago. You can read more about it in my pun heavy WeekendNotes Review here: The Bear Bar
Porch and Parlour Restaurant and Bar North Bondi near Bondi Beach Update 2018: Will Smith posted about Porch and Parlour! Dude! So glad you checked it out! (Below is my review from awhile ago) Porch and Parlour Bondi is a nice little bohemian style restaurant hidden away around the corner from many other restaurants in the North Bondi, Bondi Beach area. If you don’t continue exploring the length of the beach restaurants, and walk up Ramsgate Ave, you won’t find it. We decided to check it out based on online reviews and went their directly. The Restaurant The restaurant is…
A very stylish and sophisticated karaoke bar in Chinatown, Sydney. Check out my review on WeekendNotes here: Dynasty Karaoke Club
If you’re looking for a brewery in the heart of Sydney, check out Redoak on Clarence Street. Find out more at my review on WeekendNotes here: Redoak Craft Beer Pub Sydney
Palmer and Co is a small bar hidden away near Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. I recently had a great time there with one of my students. Check out my review at WeekendNotes: Palmer and Co Small Bar
Hotel Sweeney’s is a great place to chill out if you have a spare hour or two. Savour their craft beer in their rooftop bar, enjoy a chat in the lounge, grab some food at the Thai restaurant or meet some of the locals. Check out my review at WeekendNotes: Hotel Sweeney’s and Chimney Thai Bistro
Secret Sydney Bars Walking Tour Guide Secret Sydney Bars ebook! Do you love craft beer, wine, whiskey, sake and other alcoholic drinks? Do you love exploring different bars? Are you always trying to find a new bar to experience? Sydney features a lot of hidden bars in many strange and wonderful places like in forgotten laneways, at the back of basement shop hallways and down fire escapes. Even locals don’t know where many of them are. This guide will show you where to find some of them and give you a brief idea of what to expect in a walking…
Smash Cut Cinema Smash Cut Cinema is a great way to relive old classics and discover new favourites. I’ve been meaning to attend a Smash Cut Cinema screening for awhile. While I’m generally not into discovering old movies for myself, Smash Cut usually shows films that have amazingly executed scenes, brilliant acting and an engaging and well-written script. So, rather than trawl through the millions of movies online to find something that might appeal (an incredibly time consuming process that usually means giving up and writing something instead) I can simply check out Smash Cuts recommendations and attend a screening. I had some…
Quarryman’s Pub Quarryman’s Pub is the largest craft beer pub in Pyrmont serving over 20 craft beers on tap. Find out more about one of the largest craft beer pubs in Sydney. More at WeekendNotes: Quarryman’s Craft Beer Pub
Black Penny Bar Black Penny Bar is such an exciting find, hidden at the back of Surry Hills. Friendly people, interesting craft beer, wine, music and art. Check it out. A fun small bar. Find out more at my WeekendNotes review of Black Penny Bar here
Star Wars Bar May the fourth be with you. Definitely visit this Star Wars Bar in Sydney if you’re a Star Wars fan. This is the bar you were looking for. Find out more in my review due out soon at WeekendNotes: The SG Star Wars Theme Bar
Best’s Great Western Bin No. 1 2014 Shiraz Awhile ago I wrote a wine review which was to become my first fully paid article on wine. I have just discovered it isn’t linked from my Travel Wine Food site! So, here it is: Best’s Great Western Bin No. 1 2014 Shiraz I go into a bit of history about Shiraz in it, too. Let me know what you think! Cheers!
Echo Point Karaoke Club and Bar Sydney I had a great time singing with some friends at the Echo Point Karaoke Club and Bar in Sydney. I’ve posted a review of this Sydney night spot for singing on WeekendNotes here. Check it out!
Sanctuary Hotel Asian Hangout Bar Sydney Find out why Sanctuary Hotel is the place to meet Japanese and Korean people in Sydney. Read more about Sanctuary Hotel Sydney at WeekendNotes here
The Wine Society in Ultimo, Sydney A members-only co-operative, The Wine Society prides itself in offering wines that have passed through their tasting panel or have been awarded trophies. I worked there for just over a year in the membership department as well as the inbound sales department and enjoyed my time there. I especially enjoyed the weekly tastings and access to some amazing drops. I remember the fun times but, at the end of the day, it was a job and I wanted to get back to enjoying wine for myself rather than having to taste everything that comes…
Din Tai Fung Dumpling Restaurant At the opening time of 5.30pm there was already a queue at Din Tai Fung, a popular Taiwanese dumpling restaurant in the Korean Town area of Sydney City. We were quickly ushered to our seats as Taiwanese, Chinese and Thai waiters and waitresses dashing back and forth with menus to waiting patrons. To order we checked the number in the menu and wrote the number we’d like on a folded paper record. This is the perfect way to make sure that patrons not only got what they wanted, but also couldn’t then say they didn’t…
Rum Bar and Jamaican Restaurant Surry Hills Rosie Campbell’s Jerk Diner & Rum Bar Jamaican Restaurant Surry Hills Sydney was quite a surprise! My partner and I went on a wander through the streets of Surry Hills and stumbled upon an unassuming yellow and navy blue place with simple signage. For a moment we couldn’t tell if it was a food and drink only restaurant or whether we could enjoy a drink without purchasing food. (For those of you who are not familiar with the system in Sydney, there are three main liquor licenses that businesses can apply for. 1. BYO…
Japanese Cuisine and Sake Lounge Randwick (Closed) Recently we had the pleasure of being invited to discover the cuisine and sake lounge delights at K’s Restaurant in Randwick. They serve fresh and unique Japanese cuisine that is difficult to find anywhere else. This is an authentic Japanese restaurant with both the manager and chef being Japanese, and possessing many years experience in the Japanese restaurant industry. Aaron, the waiter, was extremely helpful in answering all our questions, going into a lot of detail about the ingredients and preparation, and you could see how passionate he was about the restaurant, the food and…
Australia Trade Tasting The Australia Trade Tasting Wine Event was an informative session in Sydney for people in the industry Recently, thanks to my involvement with TravelWineFood.com and our Wine Education Services, as well as our plan to open a wine bar, we were eligible to attend the Australia Trade Tasting event in Sydney. This was an amazing event and well worth the admission. Only being able to spare a couple of hours, we had to be a bit choosy as to which wine stalls to visit, and then which wines to try, so some minutes were spent reading the brochure, checking…
The Sydney Italian Wine and Food Festival I just had the pleasure of attending the Sydney Italian Wine and Food Festival inside Sydney’s Town Hall. I was quite impressed to see such a well-organised event with, according to Facebook, over 11,000 attendees across the weekend. I very much enjoyed being able to taste quite a lot of wine from many parts of Italy. It was amazing to try so many Italian wines. It was even more incredible to experience the taste of so many grape varieties that are hard to find in Sydney. We tried Acitana, Albaranzeuli Nero, Barbera del Sannio,…
Niigata Seafood Markets Japan Hidden away in hard to find areas in Niigata City Japan are little alcoves of Niigata seafood markets and vendors selling a variety of rare and exotic seafood. I was amazed by the variety, the low cost and the easiness of being able to buy and eat just about anything available. There is a public seafood market that can’t be seen until you actually go through the sliding doors of an innocuous looking shopping mall entrance… and more hard to find doors leading to retailers who can not only sell you things you’ve never seen before,…
Photography Exhibition Sydney with Slawo Plata at the Goethe Institute If you’ve searched for photography exhibition Sydney then you’ll want to visit one of the most interesting in recent years. One of my many hobbies is photography, so I was very happy to receive an invitation from the Swiss Consulate to attend the launch of a photography exhibition Sydney ‘s East, from one of Switzerland’s lauded photographers, Mr Slawo Plata at the Goethe Institute. Slawo’s passion is to digitally photograph people in remote regions in a way that gives us an enormous amount of information in an enhanced black and white photograph.…
Make Beer at The Beer Factory Ever wanted to make beer? If you’re in Sydney, you can. And you’ll have access to all the recipes, materials and equipment you need at a fraction of the price of setting it up yourself. Let me tell you about my experience! In Seven Hills in Sydney there is a Beer Factory where you can make almost 1000 different types of beer, including, of course the wine of beer, craft beer. My group headed there on Wednesday to make beer. To create a Russian Imperial Stout. This was an awesome experience! We were given…
