Pub Review: Tea Gardens Hotel, Bondi Junction

The Tea Gardens Hotel is a pub located in Bondi Junction, an eastern suburb of Sydney. The pub was originally known as the Waverly Tea Gardens Inn when it opened in 1854.

As the first public house in the area, the surrounding suburb became known as Tea Gardens before becoming Bondi Junction when Trams arrived to the area in the 1880s. The pub would eventually take on its current name and art deco design in the 1930s.

The pub has maintained most of its art deco design with the exterior mostly unchanged apart from the addition of an open-air deck to the second level. The level has maintained the centrally placed bar with most of the classic pub tiles persevered.

The pub has become popular with Sydney’s Irish community making it one of Sydney’s best unofficial Irish pubs.

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