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Birchgrove Park

Contains Birchgrove Oval, the spiritual home of rugby league in Australia after it hosted the first professional matches in 1908. A family park that has good views of the Harbour Bridge.

Address: Grove St, Birchgrove
Website: innerwest.nsw.gov.au (opens in a new tab)

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Listing from Wikivoyage: Sydney/Inner West, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Riverview Hotel
You can choose to eat in the dining room upstairs but you can also choose from a selection of the same menu and eat in the bar. The menu is Modern Australian and courses are well thought through and executed. The bar also offers tasting plates and pizzas.
Bar: Mon-Sat noon-midnight, Sun noon-10PM. Dining room: Fri-Sun noon-3PM, Mon-Sun 6-10PMPrices - Bar menu: tasting plates $10, pizzas $18. Dining room: entrees around $20, mains $25-30
EatInner West
Rosso Pomodoro
This is a bit further out of Balmain in a more residential area, but they serve excellent authentic Italian pizzas.
Tue–Sun 6–10PM
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Berry Island Reserve
Berry Island first connected to the mainland with a causeway from Wollstonecraft farm in the 1800s. Later quarried sandstone made a permanent land bridge to the island. The land bridge is now lawns with a playground, and a loop walk circles the island, which will take around 20 minutes. There are interpretive signs about the Aboriginal heritage of the area. The last part of the walk can be done rock hopping along the sandstone rocks on the coastline. There is an Aboriginal carving there, but it basic, and quite hard to make out. There is a lookout at the end of the point, with views across the harbour to Balmain and Birchgrove. You can also see across to HMAS Waterhen Naval Base.
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Balls Head Reserve
Two points to the west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Balls Head is a large park and picnic area with extensive harbour views and walking tracks. The park also contains the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability - an industrial zone turned into a community area where visitors can also walk through the original tunnels. Adjacent is the MV Cape Don, a decommissioned ship which holds tours occasionally. Also has a restored Aboriginal rock carving of a whale.