Five Barrel Brewing
Brewery taproom
A brewery taproom pouring a golden ale, a pale ale and an ESB, with a food truck Thursday to Saturday.
📍 318 Keira Street, Wollongong
Pubs and beer bars: 6 bars
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The Illawarra Hotel
Art Deco pub
An Art Deco pub built in 1938, home to Hilda's Bar.
📍 160-164 Keira Street, Wollongong
North Gong Hotel
Pub
Three bars, a beer garden and Sunday sessions.
📍 3 Flinders Street, Wollongong
Dicey Riley's
Irish pub
The Irish pub in the Wollongong CBD, for a pint of Guinness.
📍 Wollongong
Resin Brewing
Brewpub
A brewpub in the 1887 Bulli Railway Guesthouse, with Sunday sessions.
📍 8 Station Street, Bulli
The Scarborough Hotel
Pub
A pub with ocean views, near Scarborough station.
📍 383 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Scarborough
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Your questions
What are the best pubs in Wollongong?
Start with Five Barrel Brewing, The Illawarra Hotel, North Gong Hotel, Dicey Riley's and Resin Brewing. Our full list has 6 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Now we're bringing it to Australia. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides, including Australian Traveller and Sitchu.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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