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Hive Bar
$8 schooners of reckless pale ale · $8 schooners of reckless lager +3 more
BarLive MusicOutdoor SeatingBrewery
4–6pm
Happy Hours in Erskineville
3 venues found
Erskineville's three-venue drinking scene centres on the Erskineville Road strip, where a corner pub from 1882 sits alongside a community-focused local bar and a 100-capacity dive venue known for live music.
The Erko anchors the strip as a proper corner pub that's been pouring beers since 1882, now pairing schooners with American barbecue from an on-deck smoker. Comfortable Chesterfield couches and a pool table give it the feel of a local that's found its groove with food. A few doors down, Hive Bar opens bi-fold windows onto the footpath, filling mismatched furniture and graffitied walls with a community crowd for vinyl nights and St Peters Brewery beers.
Moshpit rounds out the scene as a proper dive bar where live music happens every night and $5 happy hour schooners keep the gig posters coming. The 100-person capacity means it gets packed fast, but that's half the appeal in a suburb that keeps its village feel despite sitting between Newtown's chaos and St Peters' warehouse conversions.
Erskineville Station puts you a short walk from King Street's bigger scene, but the locals seem content to stick around Erskineville Road for a quieter night that still has character.