Pyrmont Bridge Hotel

I’m sort of in two minds about this place. It is pretty close to where the action is, has some decent beers on tap, and the downstairs bar is pretty cool, however there was a vibe about this place that I really didn’t like. I’ve actually been here a couple to times (and both times it was pretty packed). However the second time the place just didn’t feel right. Fortunately there was an upstairs area with an balcony, but that is mainly for the smokers. Still the balcony does have a reasonable view across Darling Harbour to the city. However, there are better places around, and I doubt I’d visit this pub again.

Aa Ben said… yup, the street-​level part of the pub is pretty old-​mannish and upstairs is pretty ordinary. The food is ordinary… maybe even plain? You know when it’s not quite bad, but just so bloody plain? Yep. Service is probably more crap than ordinary.
There is really nothing special about this place. Oh… 24 hour license. Cool. That’s it.

Only came here for a few drinks after Melbourne cup. The staff were good, the atmosphere was depressing, the interior was run down, the drinks were very over priced and I never once was able to taste any alcohol in any of the drinks ordered (gin/​tonic)…

Lovely old pub this one. It’s kind of been done up but mostly it hasn’t changed much in nearly a century. The main bar is your traditional standup, working man’s bar. No table service here. Almost no tables in fact. You can imagine this place being filled not with its current city suit and hipster crowd but by the teams of wharfies this place was built for when Darling Harbour was a working port. It’s still got a working man’s pub vibe to it. In fact the day we were there, the only outdoor table was taken up by a group of old guys that looked like they had been working on a road crew all day.
The only thing they have really modernised is the beer list which is pretty good. Lots of good stuff to chose from.
There are other levels in this place that apparently offer more up to date and civilised experiences but I’ll stick to the main bar.
Oh yeah… it’s apparently open 24 hours so if you ever feel like a schooner at 4am, this is the place to go.

This place has to get five stars for surviving the lockouts so you can always get that spontaneous drink breakfasts, lunch and tea. Good pub menu and they usaully are playing the latest sports. Short tram trip from central station also makes it a place to meet and start the night.

I don’t know if it’s cause I’m not used to these «eat a dangerous and unhealthy amount of food in less than 1 hour and get it free» promotions, but there’s something fascinating about the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel.
First of all, the food actually SEEMS NICE. Went last thursday to share some beers with friends and well, even if we didn’t eat anything the 1kg steaks looked so palatable that I almost order 1 even if I had my dinner waiting for me at home.
On the other hand, the combination of different atmospheres from a regular dark pub to a funky terrace, not to mention the arcades, some chick bars and surprises of the kind made this place worth the visit. And I’m likely to test myself with one of their daily promotions.

Had an awsome time performing for the Unilocal 10^th Birthday party at the pyrmont bridge hotel, the staff were great and the crowd were having a ball on all levels, for a big venue they sure no how to handle it, would perform there any time! thanks guys x

Went to this pub for my first time time tonight for the 10^th anniversary of Unilocal.The atmosphere looks great and the businesses providing their wares had some yummy foods. I don’t know why they started charging for beer before before 9pm. Party ending at 9:30pm.
Will have to come back another time to see how I rate their service on its own.

I went here with some Unilocalers for their chicken burger challenge. $ 15 for a ginormous chicken burger, how could I resist? But I chickened out (pun seriously not intended, it sounds super lame because we’re talking about chicken, but I honestly don’t know how else to phrase it) and ended up going halves with a friend.
First floor is a typical pub. Dark and as pub-​y you can be. Don’t get turned off, just go up the stairs. Second floor has been renovated, so yay. Nice thing is that the 2^nd floor is a bit more ambience-​y, and feels like a good ol’ restaurant instead of a typical pub.
Only downside to this place is that meals came out a bit slowly. The burger is $ 15 but you have to buy a drink to avail of the meal. But for that price, it is sooo worth it. It was like 3 different burgers all in one. AND it actually tasted good! One complaint I have with these usual food challenges is that once the food becomes big but it tastes bland. This was a yummy burger all throughout. Plus there was a side of chips!
They have food challenges on other days, but I haven’t tried them yet.
This seems like a great place if you’re looking to stuff yourself with food… but only if you’re willing to wait.

Went there tonight, the drinks ore ok, but the food was disgusting. I had pulled pork in a roll (hot dog roll) My friend had barramundi. you could see that it was out of the freezer into the fryer. Stay well away from the food.

Went here for a UYE, a crazy eating challenge!
Downstairs is an old school bar with a few seats outside looking down towards Darling Harbour. Upstairs is a modern looking bistro area with big glass windows that also look out to Darling Harbour and the cityscape beyond. The hotel is doing daily food specials and on our visit on Monday — it was the monster chicken burger challenge. It is a massive 2 layer chicken burger served with a large serve of fries. One layer is filled with fried chicken with an excellent chilli sauce and the bottom is like a caesar salad, grilled chicken breast and bacon. All of this food comes for a mere $ 15 and there is enough to easily feed 2 people let alone 1 person. Needless to say, I failed miserably and half my fries and all of my bread remained on my plate…

Secrets! This place is full of *secrets*!
My fetish for classic old man boozers is well documented, which is why I love the street level area of this 24hr pub so much. Oh, I mentioned its 24hrs, right? As in, you could trot down there at 6am and have a schooey of Toohey’s Old if you wanted to. Yep.
But what I recently discovered is the upstairs level. And the level above that. And they’re both awesome. With multi-​level floors, different rooms and areas, smaller bars, lounge areas, smoking rooms, and a huge outdoor bar with views over Darling Harbour, I felt like I’d dropped down the rabbit hole. A big, boozy, fantastic rabbit hole where they serve beer and $ 8 steaks.
They also have the Man or Mouse Challenge, where you come in at night, pay peanuts for gigantic meals, and win the admiration of your peers if you finish them all. Here’s the run sheet:
Monday — $ 15 monster chicken burger challenge
Tuesday — $ 12 jungle curry chilli challenge
Wednesday — $ 15 burger as big as your head challenge
Thursday — $ 20 1kg rump steak challenge
Friday — $ 20 USA pork rib rack challenge
Gauntlet = thrown.

Now ur at 1. The douche gorilla asked my friend how many drinks he’d had he responded and they asked him to go get food.
We went around the corner for 10 minutes, returned and then the Douche gorilla decided I needed to go get food.
For a useless bar thar makes no money, has no reputation and is only alive because it has a 24-​hour licence — my advice is to avoid. If I could give this place a zero Id give it negative 5.
Avoid at all costs’

I really like PBH.
It’s like that old pair of jeans that are ratty, tatty and well past their use-​by date, but you still keep coming back to them and can’t get rid of them.
Open 24 hours, it doesn’t matter what time of day you pass by, there’s always someone having a beer inside.
Upstairs where they do functions has been renovated and is a really nice place for a gathering.
Food from the bistro is good — never had a problem there, and well presented and tasty. Staff have always been friendly.
Can highly recommend after a bit of shopping at Harbourside to come here for a drink and bite to eat, or a social function.

It’s one of those pubs you end up at — with a twinge of regret. There are several levels but none of them quite redeem the place. Heading up to the rooftop bar area can be pleasant, but then everyone has the same idea, and so it gets pretty crowded and rowdy.
The main reason my review has gone from a potential 3 stars to 2 stars has to do with a very unfortunate incident involving a perfectly good piece of salmon. I was pretty stoked that they had a salmon special for $ 10. That was, until it arrived. The pretty salmon fillet was sitting on a nice bed of green salad. But both the salmon and the salad were absolutely saturated with some kind of bright pinky red sauce. It looked pretty hideous, and unfortunately tasted even worse. You know that kind of super processed sweet & sour sauce that just tastes a bit like chemicals? Yeah, it was THAT sauce.
So bad. What a way to destroy a perfectly good piece of salmon. Now, walking past this pub, I often think about this salmon, and how things could have worked out so much better if someone had just sprinkled some olive oil over the top, or maybe even a tiny bit of butter sauce … or even béchamel or white sauce wouldn’t have been too offensive …
Hilariously … I also witnessed a perfect «useless bartender» moment. The bloke next to me ordered a bottled beer. The bartender took it out of the fridge, and then looked blank. He patted down his apron, looked back and forth at the bench. His expression grew more and more frantic.
«Maa-​aaate,» whimpered the bar tender, «I … um … I can’t find my bottle opener. Have … uh … have you got any keys?»
Oh PBH, what a place.

Classic dive pub that has done some nice renovations to the rooftop bar. Tasty food and a decent collection of beers. I think the views make this is a hidden gem.

Enjoyed the chicken burger for lunch. Good chicken to bun ratio and good value at $ 11. Nice place for Friday lunch.

The pub with the grub. There are dark wood doors that hold the fort and inside there is a centrepiece bar with almost anything you could possibly want. The menu is good, Aussie fav’s and the beer is poured fresh from the keg. I liked the range of timelessness of the place, you could be in almost anytime, it still has the antiquity of the first fleet yet the modern edge of the harbourside aspect. It is classic pub and has an outdoor seating area, which is usually very packed on the weekends, a very popular Sunday and Saturday afternoon watering hole.

While it looks like a standard pub from the outside, recent renovations have revamped the interior of the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel into a modern watering hole. Like its name suggests, it is located right across from the Pyrmont Bridge, which you can clearly see from the outdoor verandah upstairs. The greatest thing about this hotel is that it is ALWAYS open! Yes, you can get a drink whenever your heart desires, this place is open 24 hours. Though I have yet to roll out of bed and straight into the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel, I do know that this scenario isn’t entirely improbable. I’ll most likely be here for happy hour from 4:30PM to 5:30PM.
While the Hotel is open 24 hours, the bistro is only open from 9AM-​10PM. All of the mains on the menu (excluding the steaks) are under $ 20, meaning that in addition to getting cheap drinks, you can stuff yourself silly with schnitzels and burgers for a negligible amount of money.

I’m not a fan of Casino’s, if I’m going to get screwed and have my money taken, I don’t want to have to put on a collared shirt to do it. But nevertheless we had been drinking at the Casino, before we up and went around the corner to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel.
Located just opposite the Pyrmont Bridge, the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel is a sporty kind of bar, with reasonable drink prices and a wide selection.
I mentioned earlier that we were at the Casino drinking, only as set up to this memorable story: We were all a little tipsy by the time we got to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel and we were meeting a friend who had just finished work.
We ordered a round of beers and sat down, our work mate, the sober one, took one sip of his beer, put it down on the table, went to pick it up for a second sip but misjudged the width of the glass and rather than his hand encompassing the schooner, he pushed it forward, spilling it all over our friends dress.
The staff at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel immediately offered paper towels and condolences to our wet friend and the night continued smelling a little more like beer than it had before.
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel, the place where memories happen.