The Eveleigh Hotel — Restaurant in Sydney

Fantastic pub. Just a good old fashioned inner-city pub. The way it should be, the type of local venue you need to influence and maintain a fantastic local culture within the suburb. It's a real shame there's a handful (read; absolute minority) of NIMBY-loser-core neighbours that continually complain about 'noise'. Noise? You live near the quietest pub in Sydney. It's never open past midnight. The outside tables go inside by 8pm. You should be thankful you live near such a quiet, well mannered and historically relevant venue. But more on the pub. Firstly - the food is great and very reasonably priced for the quality. Their $20 curry and a beer special during the week is a top deal. Second - a great selection of beers (including my favourite; Reschs) at, again, very reasonable prices, considering the price of beer in and around the city these days. Thirdly - absolute cracking pool room. A decent table. And nice, welcoming, inclusive locals that love a game of doubles. To finish up and reiterate a previous point; it really is the perfect, small, quiet, local inner-city pub. And it's a real, real shame that some local kooks continue to petition the council to remove the outside seating due to 'noise'. Really? If you're owning (even renting) a house on Abercrombie St, you're beyond privileged as it is. Moving this close to a pub and trying to change how they do things? Pump the breaks and have a bit of consideration for everybody else in the suburb that enjoys the area. If the Ev had live bands, or DJs, til 2am (they have neither, ever), I'd understand it maybe being kinda noisy. But a handful of people sitting outside and having a conversation outside a pub at 8:30pm? That's called the real world, folks. So yeah - to the whinging neighbours, I award you no stars. But to the pub, I award all 5. Great venue....

Seemingly very poorly staffed local-like pub. A few of us went here several months back and 3/4 of the meals had to be sent back they were undercooked (raw chicken!).

I've never sent back a meal before, but they were truly bad.

In the area again (thinking last experience may have been a one-off), we thought we'd risk it and order something simple. The gentleman with shoulder length curly hair serving at the bar was so rude and abrupt. It was a quite night and he was even rude to the other Asian female staff member. We could have got him on a bad night but that amount of attitude on a staff member isn't ok. Ever. The food arrived and was rather disappointing in both flavour and quality. Speaking to some other locals, most seem to just have a beer there versus choose it for its food. The pub itself has a great dimly lit, slightly dinghy, local feel which is nice.

Sadly we won't we back again and wouldn't recommend it, on the basis of...

Went to catch up with a mate who's a Redfern inhabiter and a good recommendation it was.

Service from staff was good as the bargal remembered our round which was refreshing versus the usual stale city sitch.

The WedPM $12 chicken schnitty was good value and I ordered a side on Calimari with good garlic aoili which actually tasted fresh and not frozen but who knows?!

There is a chillen lil 2 person window seat which faces the bike depot which is a great spot if you wanted to cosy up to another human. Good streetside seating as well (footpath/pavement drinking a rarer commodity in Sydney by the day)

Carlton and Reschs on tap will keep the men of meagre taste happy whilst craft beers and a decent imported range in bottles will suit those of a classier taste.

Unfortunately our Carlton/Reschs rounds were served in James Squire tall straight glasses which is pretty much sacrilege - Headmaster fan here.

Will beer...