This much is true. Post 2am is like the bar scene from Star Wars on very bad acid. A great rule for life is “If you have ended up at the Bridge you have had too much.”

But for the true hardcore drinker nothing can touch the brutality of the Duke of Wellington in Waterloo circa 830am. True courage is required to drink here. Take your chances and you may escape unscathed, but this establishment can leave the most rugged of men feeling as soft as last weeks bannanas.

I recently moved away from the inner west but come back regularly just for the White Cockatoo.

By far the bestworst pub in Sydney is the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle after 2am. Saw 3 fights, 2 girls vomiting, toilets blocked and not been cleaned forever… basically its two halls with bars in them..

Terrible but somehow a refuge at the late hours of the night.

Jeb: For me, you can’t go past the East Sydney Hotel in Woolloomooloo. Feeling somewhat like a country pub transported through time and seriously misplaced into inner Sydney, you’re guaranteed to meet a local character or two, and the drinking gets pretty crazy late into the night. You’ll probably see everything from Russell Crowe hurling a bar stool through a window to a strangely liberal interpretation of “responsible service of alcohol” when you pay a visit most weekends.

I miss that little pub! Though I have discovered another that is also in Woolloomooloo – the Old Fitzroy. A great pub! And again is the dodgy but good pub, with the el cheapo Asian food on the menu.

However, my fave good bad pub is the Lord Nelson in Ultimo. I lived literally two doors down. It fronts onto a park and has locals that are there EVERY morning at 10am. Some sit on the park bench outside waiting for it to open!