No, it's not a themed bar but a real barber's. Walk on past the blokes getting a short-back-and-sides and you'll find a seductive spot peddling gin, cocktails and quality beers. The courtyard space out the back is great for a mingle on a hot summer night. You can also enter from Clarence St, down the laneway between 152 and 156.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby City Centre & Haymarket attractions

1. State Theatre

0.12 MILES

The ostentatiously ornate State (1929) is Sydney’s most beautiful theatre. Originally built as a movie palace during Hollywood’s heyday, it’s now a…

2. Queen Victoria Building

0.13 MILES

Unbelievably, this High Victorian Gothic masterpiece (1898) was repeatedly slated for demolition before it was restored in the mid-1980s. Occupying an…

3. GPO Sydney

0.17 MILES

As iconic in its time as the Opera House, this beautiful colonnaded sandstone Victorian palazzo (built 1874) was once Sydney’s General Post Office. It has…

4. Sydney Tower Eye

0.18 MILES

The 309m-tall Sydney Tower (still known as Centrepoint by many Sydneysiders) offers unbeatable 360-degree views from the observation level 250m up. The…

5. Martin Place

0.2 MILES

Studded with imposing edifices, long lean Martin Place was closed to traffic in 1971, forming a terraced pedestrian mall complete with fountains and areas…

6. 5 Martin Place

0.21 MILES

Built in 1916 to be the headquarters for the then-state-owned Commonwealth Bank, 12-storey 5 Martin Place was Australia’s first steel-framed ‘skyscraper’…

7. Sydney Sea Life Aquarium

0.23 MILES

As well as regular tanks, this impressive complex has large pools that you can walk through – safely enclosed in Perspex tunnels – as an intimidating…

8. Sydney Town Hall

0.24 MILES

Mansard roofs, sandstone turrets, wrought-iron trimmings and over-the-top balustrades: the French Second Empire wedding-cake exterior of the Town Hall …