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    Royal Albert Hotel

    4.2 (24 reviews)
    ModeratePubs, Pub Food
    Open 12:00 pm - 11:59 PM

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    David S.

    This is a hidden gem of a pub, but then again this does happen to be Surry Hills, and that seems to be the raison detre of the place - hidden pubs. When I stopped by it was reasonably quiet, but then again it was also reasonably late, so I guess that is to be expected. However, the staff were awesome, and they even allowed me to sit in the dining room, which was technically closed. They also have some pretty decent beers on tap as well, which was also pretty cool.

    The Royale with Cheese with jalapeño mustard! $10 with a check-in on the Yelp app.
    Benjamin B.

    Dive Bar + Epic Burgers + Jalapeno mustard + $10 burgers if you check-in on the Yelp app = H.A.P.P.Y. P.L.A.C.E. Tucked in the back streets of Sluzza Spills, there's some proper burg action being charred and plated at this pubby dive bar-y eater-y with no pretension-y that's bang on when you need a beer and a two-handed patty monster to smash into your face like it's your last feed before going back to prison for something you may or may not have done. The Royale With Cheese is a seriously, seriously fantastic burger. I'm 100% serious, it's fantastic. And that jalapeno mustard is worth the price of admission, I'd drink a pint of it if they'd serve it up to me in a glass. Hm. I just had an idea. I'll be back in half an hour, if I'm smiling you know it worked.

    At last I followed the Yelp trail to home of the Royale With Cheese
    Paul O.

    Thanks to my fellow Yelpers I read your reviews and had to come and taste test the Royale Cheese Burger with Crinkle Cut chips at the special Yelp deal price of $10! On arrival the pub was already filling up for a Saturday night of meeting with friends and indulging in drink or two at the bar. I showed the barman the Yelp Deal offer on my mobile and paid my money. I waited in the adjoining dining room and ordered drinks at the bar. My burger arrived quickly and was just the way it looked in the pictures. I agree it is a good burger. The meat patty is thick and generous with a nice lettuce and tomato filling and special sauce between two delicious burger buns. A skewer decorated with a gherkin holds the burger together. This is placed in a serving basket with crinkle cut chips and a small crucible of chilli sauce. I didn't use the chilli sauce but opted for tomato sauce available on the side cabinet. I highly recommend it as one of Sydney's tastiest burger treats.

    Mushroom burger :)
    Andrew S.

    Nice mushroom burger and some good fries to boot. There was a bit of spiciness all around that was tough to not feel like everything was just covered in hot sauce. Otherwise it was a good quality vegetarian burger for a good price. Also has a vibrant atmosphere. I'd say it is a great after work place with plenty of quality beers on tap.

    Medium rare Royale with cheese, with the jalapeño mayo on the side
    James S.

    (in my best Samuel L Jackson voice) Now that it's a tasty burger! Cant go wrong with the royale with cheese. Mine was cooked to request and I recommend the jalapeño mayo for an extra kick.

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    11 years ago

    Craft beer, footy and easily the best hot dog I've ever had. Ever.

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    Seriously best burgers! Royal with cheese is definitely the best burger I have ever had! Big call I know but so true!!!!

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    Review Highlights - Royal Albert Hotel

    Great craft beer selection and it was a comfortable place to chill and bull shit with the locals.

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    MountBatten Hotel - Outside on George Street.

    MountBatten Hotel

    3.0(3 reviews)
    0.6 kmHaymarket
    $$

    I had no idea what to expect from this place. I thought it was just another pub. Turns out it's…read morehalf pub, half TAB, half Vietnamese restaurant. Yes, I did the maths. The restaurant part is located with all the sports TVs playing the horse and dog races. While you're tucking into a meal someone will come over to one of the touch screens and place a bet every so often. The pub section is looked after by a cool set of tenders. They are hot off the mark and good for a chat if that's what you're into. A decent range on tape. One thing I tried and fell in love with was alcoholic ginger beer. It's as sweet as it's non-alcoholic brethren but after a few of them you'll begin to feel it. The restaurant part was surprisingly amazing. The food would come up from a basement kitchen. It had the FOUR Fs - Fast, Fresh and Full of Flavour. A great selection of fried seafoods and a creamy goat curry to die for. Our host was on top of everything. If you dropped a chopstick he'd be there with a clean one before you picked the dropped one off of the floor. While your surrounds aren't authenticly Vietnamese, the food was the closest thing I've had since visiting Vietnam. While I try and avoid tacky looking Asian restaurants, eating authentic Vietnamese in a pub/TAB was just a little weird and a bit too far removed. I'd definitely be back though.

    Honestly I wouldn't mark this pub as a place to base a hard night on the town around, however this…read moreplace does stick in my mind because years ago, after I had just arrived in Sydney by bus this was the first place that I came across to get a drink. I still remember walking in here and seeing the vestiges of one of those weekly poker tournaments. I actually don't mind this place, despite the fact that it is a pretty ordinary pub. It's fairly quiet, and even though it simply consists of a sports bar and a VIP lounge, it is still a nice pub to meet up in and have a drink before roaming off to other parts of the city.

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    MountBatten Hotel - Some type of beef jerky salad. Crisp and refreshing.

    Some type of beef jerky salad. Crisp and refreshing.

    MountBatten Hotel - All the excitement of your local TAB

    All the excitement of your local TAB

    MountBatten Hotel - The pub section.

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    The pub section.

    Haymarket Hotel - Free manicure ... And the guy on the left did It too

    Haymarket Hotel

    3.7(6 reviews)
    0.6 kmHaymarket
    $$

    I have walked past this pub numerous times and honestly, I wasn't really expecting all that much…read morefrom it, but it turned out to be much better than I expected. Okay, it was coming from a pretty low base, but it still ended up being a pretty decent place to grab a beer. Actually, I suspected that it was simply going to be a pokies pub, but it ended up being much more than that, and even had some decent beers on tap as well. This place turned out to be pretty good.

    Bar flys rejoice, you'll find a happy home here... with all your brethren…read more Don't be fooled by the decor, the Haymarket is a low brow sports bar styled similarly to Cheers which is a block away up the same street. There's not a great deal to like here. Where Cheers has character, they seem to have gone out of their way here to *not* have it. I literally visited the Haymarket once with a co-worker to have the $12 steak and beer lunchtime special (it's all day everyday which alone is worthy of a star and gets it out of 1 territory), and I never came back. Whilst the price is in the sweet spot, the steak is definitely the lower end of the spectrum and if you choose medium rare, expect to get medium to well. The beer tasted like how beer tastes when lines aren't clean, and you twist your neck and make that funny face as the "not quite right" flavour hits your tastebuds. The staff are too familiar and entitled, which makes things worse because it means the lazy service is ingrained in their psyche - there's no manager training them out of their bad habits. They act like they are doing you a favour, rather than their job, which is arguably the most annoying trait to be found in hospitality staff. Places like this are the reason I am glad we don't have a tipping culture, and why I almost never tip at a bar, even 10 cents. Your job is to pour beer and clean tables, if you do one badly and the other not at all, and you get paid $20-25/hour, why am I tipping you? You should be getting paid $10/hour and working your ass off to earn the tips to make up that extra $10-15/hour. When you don't finish your beer, and don't order another one, it's pretty clear that you didn't enjoy yourself. Lots of work to do double H. Lots of work. Train those staff... ASAP.

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    Haymarket Hotel - Outside

    Outside

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    Haymarket Hotel - Steak and beer

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    Steak and beer

    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro - Front of the hotel

    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro

    2.8(9 reviews)
    0.9 kmSydney
    $$

    The Criterion, post PJs renos, is a standard faux-Irish pub slap bang in the middle of the city…read more(close to Town Hall). Being close to where I used to work, I'd frequent this place quite a bit, and before it was a PJs it was a mates fave city pub so we'd catch up over a few here from time to time. There's a pretty good mix of people in the street-level bar, and PJs have converted it into more of a sports bar so there are plenty of screens for the sports nuts to check out their favourite teams prospects. PJs typically have pretty good fare. In winter they have two absolute cracking dishes. The Guiness Pie with mushy peas, and their signature lamb shanks which is totally unctuous. Why such a modest score? Price kills the place. It's not one of the cheaper places to get a beer as someone incorrectly states in their tips, it's easily one of the most expensive places to get a beer. You're paying over the top prices for domestic tap beer. A cheap beer is $5 for a Coopers Pale Ale, which you can get on the same street about 200m up the road... Also... As much as I enjoy a good pokie section, this one ain't good. And by that I mean the clientelle. It brings in the undesireable types, and sours what is otherwise a sweet pub. The snug, the downstairs den, has a great looking bar, and "snug" seating, but it's kinda pointless down there. It doesn't feel snug, it feels stuffy and claustrophobic - and the bar has never been manned when I've been down there. Now, if they moved the pokies to the snug, and then opened up the entire bar at the street-level to include the room vacated by the pokie section, you'd have something. But why would they do that when they can get by with what they have.

    I went for lunch here not too long ago and it was a great Irish pub. Rich Mahogany wood and a wide…read moreselection of beer on tap, with food selections that you'd find in most other Irish pubs. Being in the city, it can get quite busy very quickly and is a decently sized basement multi-storied pub. TV screens are usually are usually playing Fox sports or something similar. I order the Parmy, just to be on the the safe side. I wasn't too game to try the Pie which is supposed to be one of the best (as judged by Irish people I work with) around. The food is carefully prepared and you can tell the produce is quality and they've cooked it properly which some pubs sometimes struggle to do consistently... The chips were the standout side, crisp and crunchy! Definitely will be trying the stew or pie, that is if I'm brave enough to.

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    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro - Guinness stew pie thing. SO MUCH YUM!

    Guinness stew pie thing. SO MUCH YUM!

    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro

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    Palace Hotel Sydney - During the carnage.

    Palace Hotel Sydney

    2.8(16 reviews)
    0.5 kmHaymarket
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    Feel the burn. FEEL IT!…read moreKEEP FEELING IT UNTIL YOUR FACE MELTS INTO YOUR EMPTY BEER GLASS THEN DRINK THAT FACEY GOODNESS! DRINK IT! POUR IT INTO YOUR MOUTH HOLE! Okay that went a little over the top but those are the emotions you experience at the Ghost Pepper Chilli Chicken Wing Challenge, which Palace Hotel originally did just on Wednesdays but now does every day of the week because it proved so popular. Here's how it works: pay $10, get 6 chicken wings slathered in either Ghost Pepper (easier) or California Reaper (harder) chilli, then eat them in 10 minutes and sit for 5mins afterwards with no drinks and you get a refund and your photo on the Wall of Flame. Sounds easy, right? Ohhhh lawdy no, no, no, it ain't. We lined up full of beans and hope. I love chilli so I thought it would be a cake-walk. They get you to sign a waiver. And give you gloves to eat with because if you touch your face with chilli on your fingers your eyes will explode and your hair will catch fire. We started to get nervous right about now. The wings arrived. They glowed like red uranium. One minute in and my entire head went nuclear. My nose started tingling, then throbbing, then quaking. The numbness spread into my cheeks. Tears were streaming down my face and I started coughing. Lights popped behind my eyes. And I wasn't even halfway through. Next to me James was sweating like a criminal in a courtroom. I tapped out three wings in and focused on trying to staying alive. The bargirl made me pour sugar on my tongue to cut through the acidity and slug milk. It helped, but ye cats, the burn. The deep burn. The staff were awesome, they made it super fun. Half an hour later when we'd cooled down I was ready to go again. I think I will. Just need to find some more victims to do it with. Hilarious experience, highly recommend.

    Buy a beer, take a seat, and let the hours drift on by. This place always looked busy on a…read moreFriday/Saturday night. However Sunday lunchtime calls for a different type of mood. Its the type of mood that believes Summer afternoons can last forever and the clouds just drift on by without the need to rain. The staff are friendly and polite. The glasses have a cloudiness to them, making you realise just how many hands have handled them over the years. When I sat down I had this feeling inside of me, it was hard to put my finger on what it was about this place. I was in the front room, whose doors face the corner of George St and Hay St. How could it look dirty but clean at the same time? So many years, so weathered. It just gives character to a place. Like an old homeless man who just had a bath. You know they are clean, but the deep grooves tell of tales long forgotten and buried in the sands of time. A schooner of James Squire, a pint of Quinness (I know, I know - why stout?) and a basket of shoestring fires - $25. For $8.5 you'd be hoping the fries to be decent, covered in gravy, something... nope, just disappointment. Save you're coins and just get McDonalds chips. These chips at the Palace tasted like they had given up on life. This place you can really settle in and feel comfortable here. Let an hour slip by, let ten. Heck grab a sleeping bag. No, scratch that. No sleeping bags, it's against rules and regulations. Darn OH&S.

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    Palace Hotel Sydney - Are you game?

    Are you game?

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    Palace Hotel Sydney

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    Quarrymans Hotel - Beef pie!!!!!!

    Quarrymans Hotel

    4.0(21 reviews)
    1.9 kmPyrmont
    $$

    I'm a big fan of Quarryman's. Not only do they have a delicious burger and a great drink selection,…read morethey also have an adorable cat who hangs out inside! They serve up your food quickly, making it a perfect spot for lunch while at work, and they also have wifi so you can even treat yourself to a working lunch. Pro-tip: happy hour is 5-7 On their walls they advertise trivia and comedy nights - hope to get to try those soon.

    Three sheets to the wind, three stars to the Quarry!…read more I only ever come here when there is a farewell for someone leaving the company; You can find me here most Fridays. This place has a very definitive after work atmosphere. You come here for a few, get your night kickstarted then move somewhere else. They do have a great selection of beers; cluey + friendly staff; great vibe because everyones just knocked off for the week; Also the infamous Kraken rum resides here! Downsides? No three sheets pale ale even though it's on the menu. The Q tends to be a bit on the pricey side. It's one of those not enough staff too many patrons places so lines are lengthy and spills tend to linger... longer... I've done the upstairs gig a couple of times. Rooftoppy, nice view, and good amount of intimacy. Downsides there is very limited bar (unless you want to haul yo fat ass up and down the stairs all night) and it's even pricier (ultra kick in the guts when that work tab runs out!) Never done the food here, wouldn't know where to get it, or whether it's worth getting.

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    Quarrymans Hotel - Lots of seats and lots of games on Flat screes!

    Lots of seats and lots of games on Flat screes!

    Quarrymans Hotel - Tap Menu on the wall

    Tap Menu on the wall

    Quarrymans Hotel - Schooner of ginger beer (L) and pint of Ale

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    Schooner of ginger beer (L) and pint of Ale

    Star Hotel - Go Liverpool!

    Star Hotel

    3.3(3 reviews)
    0.7 kmHaymarket

    Star Hotel is located in Sydney, Australia, offering great drinks in an awesome environment…read more We ended up coming through after walking streets for hours exploring and seeing the beautiful city of Sydney. We came in for drinks and were seated right away. We went ahead and ordered draft Stella's, and our drinks came out in no time. The beer was fresh and crisp as could be and was served in a nice glass. They had security up front and ensured anyone who entered wasn't overly intoxicated. They had a bunch of TVs playing sports, but the majority was horse racing. Overall, it was a great place to dive in for some drinks in a safe environment just to chill and kick back and talk to friends!

    When one has this crazy goal of trying to have a drink in as many different pubs as possible one…read moreends up visiting some absolute shockers. Okay, this probably wouldn't be the worse of the worse, or even incredibly bad, but it is certainly one of those pubs that now that I have had a beer at I won't be returning to in a hurry - or at all - unless of course I have no other option (though since it is in the middle of Sydney, that isn't much of a problem). Still, if you want to watch sports then it isn't a bad pub, though when I was here it was packed full of people all watching the soccer, thus relegating to to sitting in front of a pokie machine with my beer (and they aren't the best of places to sit with a beer trying to read a book). Maybe I'm being a little harsh on this place, but then again maybe I'm not.

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    Star Hotel - Stella Artois

    Stella Artois

    Star Hotel
    Star Hotel

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