New Britanna is a bar located in Darlington an inner-west suburb of Sydney. The bar was originally built in 1879 as the Britannia pub.

The pub was built on land originally owned by William Chippendale, namesake of the nearby suburb of the same name. The name Britannia derives from the convict ship which brought the pub’s first owner, William Hutchinson’s wife to Sydney. The pub is also believed to be haunted and was infamously the location of corrupt Sydney cop Roger Rogerson’s last beer before shooting dead underworld boss Warren Lanfranchi in 1981.

The pub was later acquired by its current owners and converted into a pizza restaurant and bar reopening as the ‘New’ Britannia. The Australian pub tiles that would have lined the exterior of the pub are long gone with the interior having received a similar treatment, gutted of all traces of its former life as blue-collar inner-city Sydney pub.

In its current state, the New Britannia is definitely more bar than pub. That may be a good or bad thing depending on what you’re looking for.