Sky Zone Alexandria
Sydney's indoor trampoline park will have you jumping for joy
Newtown, Enmore, Annandale and beyond play host to an abundance of top-tier diners, fast-paced indoor activities and thriving community hubs
By Time Out in partnership with Google
While Newtown may historically be one of Sydney’s bustling student hubs, the Inner West and beyond is home to makers, creatives, passionate sustainability-focused collectives and so much more these days. King Street is the area’s lengthy landing strip, punctuated by excellent cocktail bars, swish gift emporiums, vintage shops and of course, Rising Sun Workshop. This communal hot spot interestingly combines the crafts of motorcycle mechanics and ramen making with tasty results. Beyond this you’ll find Wish Bone, where you can eat some of Sydney’s best fried chicken, and the Duke of Enmore, a gussied-up pub that’s a good shout for a pre-Enmore Theatre gig drink.
Further afield, the Inner West’s industrial history has cultivated fertile grounds for experimentation. Former warehouses are known to host raging parties in the evenings, while in the day time you’ll find a former soup cannery, which is now home to Banh Xeo Bar (where you can try pig’s head nuggets) and Archie Rose (Sydney’s award-winning distillery, making some of rum and whisky). Other unique land transformations include Camperdown Commons, a bowling green turned community farm, and the Mitchell Road Antique and Design Centre, which fills a sprawling warehouse space with a cornucopia of vintage furniture. Many Sydney families call the Inner West home, which makes accessible fun a priority: bounce around at trampoline park Sky Zone, bound around on dodgems at Archie Brothers, get crafty at Reverse Garbage or crack the codes at stylish escape room, the Cipher Room. From hidden gems to quirky icons, these establishments and their own ‘signature searches’ represent the character and diversity that make each part of Sydney so special.
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