Teddy’s Enmore

The Warren View Hotel on Stanmore Road in Enmore is about as inner west as a King Street traffic snarl or the excessively faded Oporto billboard (will they ever replace that thing?). It’s always been known for its friendly neighbourhood atmosphere, strong local beer line-up and unwaveringly on-the-money pub food. Famously, it was also once home to a giant fibreglass redback spider that clung – inexplicably – to the thick trunk of the eucalypt at the centre of the beer garden. The spider is gone – tasteful fairy lights are draped in its place – but all the other good stuff remains. 

And now there’s another reason to love the Wazza. Upstairs – or up one level in the shiny new lift – is Teddy’s, a glitzy, velvet-swathed bar that acts as the pub’s more elegant sibling. Anchored by its dreamy architecture (roof beams and bricks are both tastefully exposed), you’d never know you were in part of a pub. If The Warren View is the place to meet that Hinge date for a first exploratory drink, Teddy’s is where you go for date number two to let them know things are getting serious.