One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
After departing the Royal Hotel Springwood, we completed our trek through the Blue Mountains. Just after coming out the other side we arrived at the next Royal for the tour, the Royal Hotel Wallerawang. The Wang (as I presume it must be affectionately referred to by locals) is a fairly small town with a big […]
As alluded to at the end of the last post, John and I have sat down and ranked our Top Ten Royal Hotels visited so far. We will update this list every 10 Royals we visit, so it’ll be a bit of an evolving ranking as we progress through the Tour. This first edition covers […]
After departing the last of the Sydney Royals in Richmond, we headed west into the Blue Mountains. As it was just about hitting lunchtime, we arrived at our third Royal for the day: the Royal Hotel Springwood. The pub is located on the main drag of Springwood directly across from the train station. And it […]
The next stop on this leg of the Royal Tour was the final one in Greater Sydney. Unless you count the Blue Mountains. In which case it would be the second last. But I don’t. So the last Royal in Greater Sydney was the Royal Hotel Richmond. By the time we had finished our beers […]
With the Royal Tour’s big smoke leg in our rearview mirror, it was time head back out to regional New South Wales. So naturally, the logical place to start this next leg was…Western Sydney. Our sojourn back out to the Central West started with a detour via the Royal Hotel Camden. With the excitement that […]
Finally it was time for the Big Smoke leg of the Royal Tour to come to an end. We departed the solidly acceptable confines of Carlton for our final stop on this leg of the tour: The Royal Hotel Sutherland. I would be lying if I said we rocked up to the Royal Hotel Sutherland […]
With our expectations sufficiently brought back down to earth, we departed Granville for the Royal Hotel Carlton. “Surely”, we reasoned, “this Royal is going to fall somewhere in between the extremes of Ryde and Granville”. It did. Yes, I do realise that is exceedingly lukewarm praise. But this was a lukewarm pub. But I mean […]
Fresh off of our extremely pleasant surprise at the Royal Hotel Ryde, the Royal Tour rolled on through the suburbs of middle Sydney. ‘Who knows’, we thought, ‘maybe Sydney’s heavily concreted central suburbs were actually hiding a trove of hidden gems’. Then we arrived at the Royal Hotel Granville. From the outside it looked nice […]
Editor’s Note: With John off on an overseas jaunt, this will be his last post until his return. So enjoy it while you can as I’ll be back on posting duties from here on out. First stop on todays section of the Royal/I don’t feel like a beer so early Tour was the Royal Hotel […]
After a longer than anticipated delay, we continue our series on the Royal Hotels of Sydney as told by John. This week John takes aim at the Royal Hotel Darlington. I’ve had some good times at this one during my uni days, but John was unimpressed (to be fair, justifiably so on the day). But […]
