Reviewers present: Burger Bot & Frau, Millerkands, Simojoe
Time of review: Saturday lunch, Australia Day
"Who is Warren? And what is he looking at?"
Lovingly decorated out the front with traffic lights and a giant 'Canterbury >' sign. The Warren View (or "Wazza") is probably Enmore's greenest pub. What else?
According to their website, The Warren View first opened in 1870 and at that time it overlooked a Victorian Gothic mansion called "The Warren". Wow, we get facts! 143 years later, the Enmore-Stanmore intersection hotel is still pumping out the beers. On this visit, Australia Day 2013, it was the perfect place to meet friends, enjoy a feed and a few beers on an Australian Summer afternoon. Yeah.
The Warren View is not a bad pub at all, with it's front bar (watch your step in from the footpath) and large pool room (two pool tables and a bunch of seating), and, wait for it...... wait a bit more....... ok, keep reading....... here it is...... a nice big beergarden! The beergarden certainly is their drawcard, we think. The pub even proclaims to have "Sydney's Best Beergarden!", according to their website. Was there a survey? Which other beergardens were they up against? In any event, it doesn't matter. It is a pretty good beergarden. A surprise beergarden.
On that day 5-buck Balmain Pilsner schooners were the special, while this month (June) James Squires Chancer is the beer of the month at $5.50. 3-dollars-something for a glass of coke (for the then-pregnant reviewer Simone Bot). Burgers were the main order of the day with our group tucking into a couple of beef, chicken and lamb burgers. All reports fine. Other menu items include pizza, steak, s&p squid, schnitzel, etc. Happy Hour is Monday-Thursday 5-7pm, all schooners at middy prices. $1 pool all day Toozdee and Thurzdee. More specials and events on their website.
With the pub being located where there's not a lot of lot foot traffic (compare to Duke Hotel on Enmore Road and Townie on King) it has a certain honesty about it with the "cool kids" kept to a minimum. The more residential-feeling, family-friendly pub offers a nice change to the bustle of the previously mentioned comparible pubs.
The front bar is fine, serves it purpose, but we wouldn't park bums there. It was nice relaxing in one of the beergarden zones and having the friendly bar staff put the bar tunes on out to the beergarden crowd. The Hottest 100 as it were. Not that we really recogised any of the songs.
"I've always liked it", states reviewer Frau, and the Mexican adds, "I like this more than the Golden Barley". Burger Bot also adds that he digs it, although he and Frau found previously that playing pool was sometimes difficult when busy, and slightly intimidating. Simone can't remember too much about the place, as she was bun-in-the-oven-brained at the time, except to say, "my chair was on three different levels of cobblestones! I went to the toilet. Twice."
Overall, we quite like The Warren View, as do many other numbers of humans. It's a place we wouldn't go to often but enjoy when we do. Certainly looking forward to going back. Recommended. That's Our View.
Now, here's a picture of the pods. Lovely.
Wazza's website: www.warrenviewhotel.com.au
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