Forget the frocks and cocktails: this baby’s about cold beer and tall tales, colourful characters and country charm
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The Shakey might be the last old man pub standing in Surry Hills – or at least the last of a shrinking few. With its tatty carpets, scattered Keno forms, ringing pokies, azure-tiled island bar and the old men leaning against it, this revered drinkery and winner of our Best Pub award last year is a true holdout. As peers like the Carrington and Forresters fall prey to the fish tacos and fancy fitouts of storming hipsterdom, the good ol’ Shakey remains awesomely old-fashioned. Which means it’s mostly about beer. And not your crafts. From the beautifully carved wood-topped bar sprouts a frosted tap offering VB, Carlton Draft, Fat Yak Pale Ale and Monteith’s Golden – maybe the least old-man-pub thing on the taps, and our choice for a Sunday arvo sesh. The honey-tasting NZ brew is dangerously easy drinking. We drink ours up as the Sea Eagles roll over the Roosters on a corner flat screen. (Yep, you read that right: we liked the flatscreen!) Of course, anyone who’s been to the Shakey – and if you’re a living, drinking human being in Sydney, you probably have – knows that while it ticks the basic pub boxes, it does more than that, too. There’s that famous, nothing-over-$12.50 menu that makes for an excellent pre-Belvoir fuel-up (think steaks, salt’n’pepper squid and the like) and it has charm up the yingyang. The slight glow from the old-fashion pendant lights give you the warm-and-cosies and the vintage mirrored Cooper’s adverts above the bar scream back of Broken Hill. But this is Surry Hills. New Surry Hills. And we’re raising a cold one to the fact you can still find a place like the Shakey here.
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
Aaron Chamberlain said:
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
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haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08
haha i work for the Shakespeare Hotel and Brewery, in Auckland New Zealand, and we also have Monteiths Golden...look us up, the exterior is similar in appearance.
Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2013 04:33:08