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    Verandah Main Bar & BBQ

    3.5 (11 reviews)
    ModerateBars, Gastropubs
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    What's the vibe?
    Loud
    Classy
    Happy hour specials
    Good for groups

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    Roast beef on sourdough.
    Dave M.

    Off to see a show and needed somewhere for a quick dinner and pre-show drink. Quick check on Yelp and up pops Verandah. Ticks all the boxes - has food, has drinks, has decent reviews. Even better its about 50m from where I sit all day at work. As Pickard said - Make it so. Being a non-peak night, the place was pretty empty but I'm guessing it gets pretty busy Friday nights. The drinks were....ok. A fairly usual selection of craft(ish) beers and a couple of ciders. The food was pretty good. Pub food and not especially creative but good quality and tasty. Certainly very generous. My steak sanger was huge and we really didn't need the entree we ordered. Prices were reasonable as well. Given the emptyness of the place, the wait for the food was a ittle longer than expected to the point where we were nervously looking at our watches and wondering whether we would have to jog to make the show or not, but it did all arrive in time (if only just). Not a bad place for an after work drink and bite to eat. Given its closeness to work, I'll almost certainly be back.

    Chicken Salad and chips
    Mary H.

    Service good and the atmosphere is warm... Ordered was the chicken salad - chicken could have used a sauce other than that not bad - a lot of offers during the week (not so much Friday) does offer a happy hour after 5pm

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

    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro

    2.8(9 reviews)
    0.6 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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