The Sydney Brewhouse

Here's the drill: you choose your gourmet sausages (nine flavours), your mash (five), and your gravy (three, with a tomato chutney back-up). Et voila. Starters of thick, home-made fish fingers and a caramelised onion and goat's cheese tart are adequate but, really, we're here for the snags (perhaps a little pricey at $21 for three). Moroccan lamb and raisin is a big saucy thing, ditto the smoky beef Texan, while honey chicken and macadamia is a more subtle beast. And all this among the wonderfully faded upstairs grandeur of the old Macquarie Hotel. The Brewhouse, as you would expect, offers marvellous beers.