Kauri Foreshore Hotel

Awesome old style pub! Jugs of beer from $ 8!
Happy Hour Mon-​Fri 4−6pm Sat 11−3pm and All day Sunday! Free sausage sizzle, live music and happy hour beers all day Sunday!

Not the hipster pub you’d expect in Glebe. Just old fashioned with a few guys getting rowdy outside.
Food and drink was good and low priced. The 2 for 1 meal special is spectacular. $ 6 for a big cesar salad or steak or schnitzel. Amazing.

Said it before, will say it again: I’ve got the dirtiest fetish for old man pubs.
Can’t help myself, these are the pubs that made Australia great and they’re dying off like the dinosaurs, replaced with shiny new things full of beanies and skinny legs.
The Kauri is one of the oldest old man pubs going around, you couldn’t write a better cast of characters — at 5pm on a balmy Sunday evening the tables outside are littered with 40 to 50-​year old boozers and malcontents, there’s an ancient man with crutches, an old Italian bloke smoking cheroots, women in Adidas jackets with scraggly hair, fat blokes in footy jumpers, someone’s got their Rascal electric cart parked up against the tiles, a Commodore with both mirrors missing hugs the gutter, it goes on and on.
People watching is off the chart. Inside we meet Sue, from Pyrmont, who’s brought her 74-​year old friend Miriam down for her birthday. Unilocal Elite Lizzie K is part of the house band here and she’s singing Amy Winehouse’s «Rehab», the old ducks are up and dancing, they grab my friend off his stool for a waltz, I eat a $ 12 chicken parmy and — this is unbelievable — beers are only $ 3 during happy hour, which seems to go forever, and $ 4 normally. I paid $ 9 for a Peroni in the city last week. I almost vomited on my own shoes when the guy told me the price. But here! Well, I can do that for less than a lobster, and enjoy it much more.
This is the sort of place you’ll meet people, real people, salt of the earth, no pretensions, up for a chat, who’ll think nothing about buying you a drink because that’s what people did back then and didn’t want anything out of it.

Skint pub-​loving Sydney-​siders, rejoice!
BF and I stumbled upon this hidden gem of a rough-​and-​tumble pub on a Sunday afternoon after a leisurely stroll to the Fish Market. We were captivated by the sight of a roasting pig right outside the front door, with a sign next to it saying «Free Sausage Sizzle. $ 3 Schooners.»
Say wha??? Be still, my bargain-​seeking, mystery-​meat-​loving heart!
We proceeded to the bar to procure our $ 3 schooners from the friendly barmaid. Décor inside was unpretentious, no-​frills, old school pub. Just how a good pub should be. We went for a wander and there’s a roof garden and function room upstairs, and a restaurant that’s closed on Sunday. A quick peek at the menu confirmed my assumption: the dishes and prices were respectively predictable and reasonable, in keeping with the décor.
We finagled a seat outside. An older chap addressed the sausage sizzle queue: «Buns already cut and buttered.» After procuring sausages, I went back to my table where yet another older chap was addressing the BF as he collected our empty glasses. «Save room for the pig, love» he said sweetly as I walked by, nodding at my sausage-​laden plate.
What a legend!
There is nothing I love more in the world than pig, in all forms of its porky glory. But pig on a spit? With amazing crispy crackling? Outside a dive bar on an lazy Sunday afternoon? Accompanied with amazing salads and bread? And $ 3 schooners? For FREE, just for being in the pub? And AFTER free sausages three hours before???
Sometimes life is amazing. And the places like the Kauri Foreshore make it so.

Unless you’re a local The Kauri Foreshore Hotel on Pyrmont Bridge Rd in Glebe might seem difficult to get to (and it is!) but if you are around there it may be worth stopping in for a refreshment.
Popular with workers near by it’s a handy old school pub where you might want to enjoy a beer outside on one of the tables on the foot path or inside. I usually take the outdoor preference but I must admit I like sitting at the table that looks on to the busy street. There’s so many dangerous turns and cars zipping in and out of traffic that it really makes the time fly by. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy then there’ll be something on the television, have a game of pool or grab a bite from the bistro.
For those of us that aren’t locals, yes it may be hard to get too but a nice pub all the same.