Guidebook for Marrickville
Food Scene
The café famous for weaponising food waste in the war on bland breakfast is now doing dinners for double brownie points
77 habitants recommandent
Cornersmith Marrickville
314 Illawarra RdThe café famous for weaponising food waste in the war on bland breakfast is now doing dinners for double brownie points
There’s a hyper-local vegetarian brief at this Marrickville pizzeria and the results are top shelf. This tiny corner pizzeria is the latest venue for Piero Pignatti Morano and Kim Douglas, the A-team behind the ever-popular Two Chaps café, located only blocks away. And they’ve tuned out all the gospel about what makes a classic Italian pizza to create something thoroughly local – and unlike anything else around.
11 habitants recommandent
Pizza Madre
205 Victoria RdThere’s a hyper-local vegetarian brief at this Marrickville pizzeria and the results are top shelf. This tiny corner pizzeria is the latest venue for Piero Pignatti Morano and Kim Douglas, the A-team behind the ever-popular Two Chaps café, located only blocks away. And they’ve tuned out all the gospel about what makes a classic Italian pizza to create something thoroughly local – and unlike anything else around.
For those who fancy pho for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
32 habitants recommandent
PHD Vietnamese Restaurant
260 Marrickville RdFor those who fancy pho for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Choose your preferred rice, main, vegetable, salad and soup and it’ll all get assembled in a lacquered bento box for one. It’s hard not to agonise over the available options: do you want caramelised pork belly, beef in betel leaf, caramelised salmon or stuffed tofu? The bun cha vermicelli with lemongrass pork is winner too. Also be prepared to queue: this street stool eatery gets packed out at nights and on weekends.
13 habitants recommandent
VN Street Foods
296 Illawarra RdChoose your preferred rice, main, vegetable, salad and soup and it’ll all get assembled in a lacquered bento box for one. It’s hard not to agonise over the available options: do you want caramelised pork belly, beef in betel leaf, caramelised salmon or stuffed tofu? The bun cha vermicelli with lemongrass pork is winner too. Also be prepared to queue: this street stool eatery gets packed out at nights and on weekends.
visitors from all over Sydney trek to Addison Road Community Centre for organic groceries and a wander around Reverse Garbage. You can find pretty much anything here; vintage clothes, books, rugs, eco food wraps to healing crystals, rice bread and tarot reading. There are plenty of stalls selling seasonal fruit and veg, plus Asian greens, honey and fresh seafood. Pick up a paper lunch bag filled with sweet, mini plums and stop by Brooklyn Boy Bagels for a poppy seed dough with cream cheese, lox, dill and caper schmear.
If you visit on the first or fourth Sunday of the month, the longest lines will be found at La Casa Latina – a pop-up diner where you can eat authentic Mexican food. It’s a
37 habitants recommandent
Organic Food Markets
142 Addison Rdvisitors from all over Sydney trek to Addison Road Community Centre for organic groceries and a wander around Reverse Garbage. You can find pretty much anything here; vintage clothes, books, rugs, eco food wraps to healing crystals, rice bread and tarot reading. There are plenty of stalls selling seasonal fruit and veg, plus Asian greens, honey and fresh seafood. Pick up a paper lunch bag filled with sweet, mini plums and stop by Brooklyn Boy Bagels for a poppy seed dough with cream cheese, lox, dill and caper schmear.
If you visit on the first or fourth Sunday of the month, the longest lines will be found at La Casa Latina – a pop-up diner where you can eat authentic Mexican food. It’s a
Drinks & Nightlife
It's what's inside that counts, and what's inside this simple warehouse is a collection of awesome craft beers
50 habitants recommandent
Batch Brewing Co.
44 Sydenham RdIt's what's inside that counts, and what's inside this simple warehouse is a collection of awesome craft beers
The Henson
91 Illawarra RdCraft beers and excellent pub food.
Where’s Nick, Marrickville’s only wine bar, has been embraced by the swiftly gentrifying Inner West suburb with a fervour usually reserved for relatives thought to be lost at sea. Turns out the residents of 2204 are ready and willing to pull up a mismatched wooden dining chair, open their wallets and lob fistfuls of dollars over the bar in return for more glasses of the Other Right’s late year viognier, whimsically titled ‘Moments of Strange Magic’.
14 habitants recommandent
Where's Nick
236 Marrickville Rd Where’s Nick, Marrickville’s only wine bar, has been embraced by the swiftly gentrifying Inner West suburb with a fervour usually reserved for relatives thought to be lost at sea. Turns out the residents of 2204 are ready and willing to pull up a mismatched wooden dining chair, open their wallets and lob fistfuls of dollars over the bar in return for more glasses of the Other Right’s late year viognier, whimsically titled ‘Moments of Strange Magic’.
Arts & Culture
The versatile spaces at The Factory mean that its roster of entertainment isn't restricted to one type: while gigs tend to constitute its core business it's also great for comedy, and acts as a satellite venue for the annual Sydney Comedy Festival, with just about every nook transformed into a live room.
59 habitants recommandent
Théâtre The Factory
105 Victoria RdThe versatile spaces at The Factory mean that its roster of entertainment isn't restricted to one type: while gigs tend to constitute its core business it's also great for comedy, and acts as a satellite venue for the annual Sydney Comedy Festival, with just about every nook transformed into a live room.
This artist-curated space houses a main music stage marked by a '30s German grand piano that hosts big band, gypsy jazz, funk, gospel, reggae and world music. There's also a 'sideshow' stage for smaller acts and performance.
61 habitants recommandent
Camelot Lounge
19 Marrickville RdThis artist-curated space houses a main music stage marked by a '30s German grand piano that hosts big band, gypsy jazz, funk, gospel, reggae and world music. There's also a 'sideshow' stage for smaller acts and performance.
Sightseeing
It's home to the weekly Marrickville Market, as well as the Addison Galleries, Reverse Garbage, Aerialize, Sidetrack Theatre and many, many more creative and inventive types.
48 habitants recommandent
The Addison Road Community Centre
142 Addison RdIt's home to the weekly Marrickville Market, as well as the Addison Galleries, Reverse Garbage, Aerialize, Sidetrack Theatre and many, many more creative and inventive types.