Marrickville Bowling & Recreation Club — Restaurant in Sydney

Visited the club for a friends bday lunch here last weekend. We asked where we could change our sons nappy and were instructed to go to the members only ladies change room as they had a change mat. Hubby came along to give me a hand as it was a messy one. Just as we were finishing two very rude ladies came in and had a go at us or rather my husband for being in the ladies room. We quickly apologised (although we had nothing to be sorry about) and explained the situation and that we were given permission to be in there. One of the ladies kept going for it berating us. What did they want us to do? Change him on the dirty tiled floor or in the public space? This club needs to provide adequate facilities for the families that visit or state that children are not allowed. The nerve of these miserable old crows to pick a fight with a young family and berate someone in front of their kid...

First time visit to Marrickville Bowlo it has its old school charm while being a little rough around the edges. $6.50 for schooner of Bulmers Cider was excellent value.

The bistro had surprisingly run out of Bangers and Mash, so we both had Chicken Schnitties with chips and salad ($22). Chicken schnitzel was delicious, large portion and perfectly cooked. Chips were a strange yellow colour probably from the oil. Salad was mixed leaf with one piece of tomato and only a small amount of vinaigrette that hadn't been fully tossed through. Mushroom gravy was nice but regular brown gravy was very watery. Food service was pretty fast.

Minus a star for the nasty long black hair that was in the bottom of my iced water and the lounge chairs are incredibly dangerous. The legs are bent and not all touching the ground. My dad almost hit the deck. Lawsuit waiting to...

Ahh the Marrickville Bowlo.

You couldn't ask for a more quintessential locals local.

The beers are cheap, the security lax..shoes are optional. The grub slaps ($15 Parmi on a Monday!), the staff are legends and the place is the biggest mixed bag of lollies going.

From ramshackle locker-rooms covered in graffiti, to the gaudy 70s roof and the generational flotsam of bowls, brooches and bogans gone by is hard to miss!

Other noteworthy features include: the only stained glass you'll ever see of a jacobian having a roll, a shrine to former Sydney major Gladys, the locals smoking corner and last but not least the omnidirectional beer holder with UV blocking screen - a piece of Australian ingenuity I've never seen elsewhere!

There's daily food specials, and live music throughout the week. Come for the sunshine, stay for the view.

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