This joint can get squashy on Wednesdays and whenever there's a serious rugby match on the big screen. Come here to flirt, sink beers, catch sports and scoff cheapie pizza.
Beach Road Hotel is a favourite with local Bondi residents, plus backpackers, miscellaneous eastern suburbs princesses, footy boofheads and teens that are only just legal.
Weekends are busy and the legendary Wednesday nights are huge. That's when the upstairs area gets absolutely jam-packed with crowds who don't give a toss about Thursday morning hangovers. All they want to do is drink, flirt, rip up the dance floor and challenge their mates to games of pool.
Music ranges from night to night, with DJs playing hip hop and old skool tracks and live bands playing more hip hop plus reggae and rock.
The bar offers Tooheys, Carlton, Stella Artois, Coopers and VB on tap and the downstairs restaurant serves up bargain pizza. Posher and pricier food options are available upstairs - such as prawn, lemon and saffron risotto or duck with bok choy, baby corn served with orange and ginger glaze.
If there's a big sports match on, the Beach Road turns its big screens on straightaway. League and union games are both considered high priorities and locally-based Kiwis always come out of the woodwork when the All Blacks are playing.
Lila Plunkett
