Best Footy Pub: The Rose

With its rowdy Inner West charm, cosy wooden decor and take-one-for-the-team outdoor heaters, Chippendale’s Rose Hotel is Sydney’s favourite point for any sport from rugby to AFL to 3am World Cup stakeouts. Of course a good sports pub needs good pub grub, and with the Rose sporting mouth watering bowls of hand-cut chips to fuel the most passionate Wallabies supporters, this much-loved haunt is the place to yell at the big screen and call ‘BALL!’. With a newly-renovated beer garden gearing up for 2011, The Rose is set to reinvigorate itself as the next best thing to being on the sideline. (Bridie Connellan) 54 Cleveland Street, Chippendale www.therosehotel.com.au