Surry Hills

What makes Surry Hills so great? It's a melting pot of Sydney's best cultural clichés - ironic-bogans attend gallery openings with hipster coffee-brewers and art-wankers frequent cafes with boutique-tradies. It may sound pretentious, but Surry Hills is your carefully considered, well-styled friend who can be a little rough around the edges, but somehow oozes a cool that you'll always aspire to. Whether it's meeting with someone to discuss their screenplay at an alleyway coffee shop, or grabbing an artisanal whiskey at a hole-in-the-wall bar, Surry Hills is a place to spend a lazy weekend filling your Instagram with aesthetically pleasing shots to brag about. Plan all you want, but any local will tell you that Surry is best experienced with only a vague idea of where you’re headed - leaving yourself enough space to stumble across that new gallery, or that awesome pub on the corner. So roll up your chinos, and get stumbling.

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Forresters

Address
336 Riley Street
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For us, the Forresters (at the top of Foveaux and cnr of Riley street) is the epitome of 'Surry Hills pub'. As a team we like to order a beer and a chicken schnitzel, grab a seat on one of the benches out front, sit there and silently judge the people walking in/out of the high end brothel across the street. Sound slightly uncivilised? Because it is. But that's the whole point. The Forresters isn't spruiking artisanal goats pee or kale infused caramel slice - it's just a great pub, with good beer/cider and good food. Mucho refreshing.

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Chur Burger

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