Top 5 bars to visit in September

The Bar at the End of the Wharf

Walsh Bay

Head down to the STC, and set up camp at this picturesque warehouse bar. It’s quite possibly one of the only bars in Sydney to be serving Foster’s in tinnies, and they’re doing a helluva burger.

Misschu Bondi Tuckshop

Bondi

Dumplings truly are God’s gift to boozing. Being so conveniently bite-sized, concentrating is left by the wayside, leaving all the more mind-space to focus on what you’re drinking. In this case it’s the prodigious whisky selection in the secret bar out the back of Misschu in Bondi.

Tio's

Surry Hills

Tio’s is a den of delicious iniquity. Go back a few years and a bar like this couldn't exist, or at least it'd be sporting a very expensive liquor licence. But thanks to the City of Sydney and a whole lot of understanding neighbours, we are blessed with a dark cave filled with tequila and beer. All you’ve gotta do is look for the big neon sign hanging over the door.

Four in Hand

Paddington

This is no large-format, beer-slinging mud hole, fellow beer drinkers. This is a beauty of a bar, decked out in chestnut-stained wood, beautiful black-and-white bar-room floor tiles and tall sturdy benches lining the walls. Grab a schooner of frosty dark ale from the folks at White Rabbit and pair it with a slab of corned beef, colcannon and carrots.

Harlem on Central

Manly

Harlem on Central is a high-class hideaway serving slick drinks in low light with not an errant grain of sand to be found upon its dark, polished wood floors. In fact, it puts us strongly in mind of Darlinghurst’s den of elegant iniquity, Eau de Vie – the type of bar we're only too happy to see more of in Sydney.