The Marrickville Hotel

The Marrickville Hotel is a corner pub in Marrickville with an eclectic fit-out: wooden bar front, fairy lights over long communal tables, greenery running along the back. The real draw is the courtyard out back — long tables, fire pits when it's cold, and the kind of loose layout that makes Sunday afternoons disappear. The bar handles local craft taps and cocktails; the kitchen leans pub classics. Reviewers love the atmosphere more than the kitchen, which is honest information.

Dogs are welcome in both the indoor bar and the courtyard, and the venue waves them in for a drink or a meal. Fire pits and dogs are a combination the pub openly runs with. It's a Marrickville pub for lazy weekend drinks with a four-legged friend in tow.