The Sussex Hotel, Sydney

20 Sussex Street, Sydney
Reviewers present: Burger Bot and Joe Blogs
Review time: After work drinks

The Sussex Hotel, Kent Street side. Blurry dashing-for-the-train filter.

"2 schooners and a pub with a Moreton Bay Fig"

Just like The Twelve Days of Christmas, the Sussex is a cumulative song where each verse is built on top of the previous one. There's drummers, pipers, leaping lords, ladies dancing, maids, swans, geese, a handful of gold rings, colly birds (seems like a lot of birds, yes?), three French hens (more birds!), the two schooners we're rating on this pub and a beer garden with a Moreton Bay Fig. Okay, this really has nothing to do with The Twelve Days of Christmas, except for those last two items, but I just wanted a tangent to open this review up with. Read on for our actual thoughts on The Sussex Hotel...

Albion Place Hotel, Sydney

531 George Street, Sydney
Reviewers Bot, Blogs, Dr Doom
Time of review: Windy lunch time

"George Street safe haven?"

We weren't planning on going here for lunch, we only went because our first preference, The Edinburgh Castle around the corner, was booked out proving to be more popular than we expected (expect a review on this one in the future). This is the second time we've reviewed here, although the first official review since starting the blog.

The Republic, Sydney

69-73 Pitt Street (cnr Pitt and Bridge streets), Sydney
Reviewers on board: Burger Bot and Joe Blogs
Time of review: Lunch noms

"Multi-level lunch special business, zombies by Terry"

It was a nice, sunny 27 degree day in Sydney and what better way to enjoy a lunch out of the office than with a cold refreshing beer. Sluuurrrrrrppppppomnomnomsssspaaaahhhhhhh.

TC Lounge, Sydney

Wynyard Station, Sydney

Reviewers present: Blogs and The Bot

Time of review: After work quickie



Nice simple selection of tap beers with a bunch of bottled beer in the fridge

"News just in - price jackpot!"

(The old rating: 1.5 rubber chickens watching the news and drinking cheap beer)

 

TC Lounge is definitely not a pub (in fact, you can barely call it a bar) so why are we including it here, you ask? One simple answer - CHEAP BOOZE.

Settlement Bar, Sydney

Westpac Place
275 Kent Street, Sydney 2000
Reviewers present: Bot, Blogs, and then some
Time of review: Lunch



(Old rating: 1 rubber chicken)

"For tight-pant corporate vampires that wish they were hiding a cocaine habit"

City Hotel, Sydney

347 Kent Street, Sydney
Reviewers present: Bot, Blogs and Doom
Tine of review: The lunch hour

"The City Hotel: appropriate name 'cos that's what it is"

(that's "2 rubber chickens" in the old system)

Occidental Hotel, Sydney

43 York Street, Sydney
Reviewers present: BurgerBot, Joe Blogs & special guest Diddy Kong
Time of day: Lunch time

It's quick, it's easy, it's the "Occy"

(The old rating: 3 rubber chickens who are on the brink of becoming 3 and a half.)


Looking for something quick, simple and cheap? In this area of the city, this is it.

Concourse Bar, Sydney

Wynyard Station, Sydney
Reviewers present: Burger Bot, Joe Blogs, Incredible Hulk
Time of day: Lunch 

(that's "2 limp rubber chickens"in the old system)


"You only live once?"

It's the second time we've been to this bar, sleazily tucked away in the corner of Wynyard station, and we left (after only one drink) again wondering why we came.