Good morning, Inner Westies. From Easter egg hunts to live gigs and open cafés — your long weekend is sorted. (P.S. We’re off next week — back in your inbox on 2 May!)

Note: Please check to confirm details are accurate with venues, event providers, restaurants and pubs by clicking through to their site. Events are occasionally cancelled at the last minute.

Grab your morning coffee and join us as we explore the Inner West together.

— Jess Thorning

What’s Open on the Long Weekend? ☕️ 🍻 

Here’s a sample of cafés and pubs open over the long weekend. Many may be operating reduced hours, so be sure to check their websites for the latest updates. This list isn’t exhaustive.

Cafes/Restaurants

• Albermarle Marrickville

• Algorithm Marrickville

• The Bearded Baristaa St Peters

• Black Market Coffee Enmore & Marrickville (Marrickville closed Sunday)

• Black Toast Cafe Annandale (closed Good Friday)

• Brighton the Corner Petersham

• Butcher and the Farmer Tramsheds Glebe

• Cafe Claire Annandale

• Cafe the Beans Dulwich Hill

• Double Barrel Coffee Newtown

• Divide 8 Pizza Stanmore

• Drummoyne Bakehouse Cafe (closed Easter Sunday)

• Eat at Robs Rozelle (closed Sunday & Monday)

• Erko Pantry Erskineville (closed Sunday & Monday)

• Fez and Co Annandale

• Garcon Tramsheds Glebe

• The Grumpy Barista Alexandria (closed Sunday)

• Home Croissanterie Balmain (closed Monday)

• Kelby’s Cafe Marrickville

• La Bottega Leichhardt

• Meli Annandale

• Miss Sina Marrickville (closed Easter Monday)

• MMC Slice Shoppe Marrickville

• Outfield Cafe Ashfield (closed Sunday & Monday)

• Pasticceria Tamborrino Five Dock

• Pelican Marrickville

• Reborn Cafe Marrickville and Burwood

• Rizq Cafe Marrickville

• Side Story Cafe Marrickville

• Solstice Summer Hill

• Wayne’s Place Leichhardt

A small sample of Pubs/Hotels…

• Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle

• Blackwattle Bar and Brewery Alexandria

• Coopers on King Newtown

• Corner Bar Rozelle (closed Sunday & Monday)

• Golden Barley Enmore

• Jacoby’s Tiki Bar Enmore (closed Monday)

• Inner West Ale Trail Breweries - most are open, click through to see Easter hours.

• Tudor Redfern

• Union Hotel Newtown

• White Bay Brewery Balmain (closed Easter Monday)

• Woolpack Hotel Redfern

Make sure to check the venues website beforehand to confirm they are still open, as things can often change last minute.

Your Easter Holiday Lifesaver Is Here 😀 

Are you looking for things to do over the Easter long weekend? Left your school holiday plans to the last minute?

We’ve pulled together a bunch of Easter events and school holiday activities that still have availability — or don’t need a booking at all.

There are too many great options to list here — click through to see what’s on!

🎭️ Enchanted Action Drama & Film: Drama Classes for Students in Primary Years 🌈 

Enchanted Action Drama & Film offers after-school drama classes for primary students (years 1-6) featuring creative movement, confidence-building exercises, and fun group activities with props, music, character, photography and film. Classes run Tuesdays at Summer Hill Little BIG House, with free trials available for new participants. As a Creative Kids provider, they accept Service NSW vouchers. Term 2 begins May 6th with Early Bird discounts available now!

📍 Flour Mill Way, Summer Hill
📅 Tuesdays - Commencing 6th May.
👉️ Check out the Enchanted Action website for more information and to book.

🐰 Kids Easter Egg Hunt @ The Grounds of Alexandria
They’ll be hiding heaps of delicious mini chocolate eggs throughout their beautiful garden, ready for your little ones to find. Spots are limited.
📍 The Grounds of Alexandria | Friday 18 to Sunday 20 April / 8:30am – 9:30am

🐇 Alice in Easterland @ Callan Park
Celebrate Easter with a fun, interactive Alice in Wonderland adventure, featuring Easter bonnet decorating and a mini parade!
📍 Callan Park Rozelle | Sunday 20 April | 10:30am  – 12pm & 1:30pm - 3pm 

🥳 Easter Fun for Kids @ Briars Sports
Open all weekend. Have lunch and relax with friends, while the kids have a fun filled afternoon of face painting & balloon twisting!
📍The Backyard at Briars Concord | Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 April

🧺 Minis Easter Egg Hunt @ Broadway
Get ready for an egg-citing adventure this Easter and join the annual Easter Egg Hunt. Bring your basket and your best egg hunting skills. Book ahead.
📍 Broadway Shopping Centre Glebe | Saturday 19 April | 9:45am – 2:45pm

🐣 Easter School Holidays @ Darling Square
Go on a fun Easter adventure around Darling Square. Find the clues, complete the worksheet and claim a yummy prize! Plus, meet the Easter Bunny.
📍 Darling Square Haymarket / Saturday 19 April 12pm – 3pm
Jumping Castle, Face Painting & Twisted Balloons.
📍 Darling Square Haymarket / 22 to 27 April 12pm – 3pm (Jumping castle 11am – 2pm)

🐇 See the Easter Bunny at Paddy’s Haymarket
Head there to grab a selfie with the Easter Bunny and some tasty chocolate eggs.
📍 Paddy’s Haymarket / Friday 18, Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 April 2023 / 12pm – 3pm

🐰 Bunnings Easter & School Holiday Activities

• Meet the Easter Bunny - Saturday 20 April / 11:30am – 12:30pm / Rozelle - book here

• Free School Holiday Workshops - See dates and times here for Ashfield and here for Rozelle.

Friday

🧱 Sydney Brick Market 
Dive into hundreds of kilos of bulk LEGO bricks, explore new, used and retired sets. Gold coin donation on entry.
📍Concord Oval / Saturday 19th April 2025 / 9:30am – 2:30pm

🎉 Good Friday in the Car Park @ The Sackville Hotel
Enjoy a family-friendly Good Friday celebration featuring outdoor dining, kids' activities (including a jumping castle, and special Pupsy events for your dogs with no booking required.
📍 The Sackville Hotel Rozelle | Friday 18 April | From 12pm

🎵 Latin Nights by the Bay @ Darling Harbour 
Free outdoor Latin dance event every Friday night, featuring the city's best Latin dance schools, top DJs, live music, and a welcoming community atmosphere for dancers of all levels. Complimentary dance lesson at 6:15pm.
📍 Palm Grove (in front of IMAX Sydney), Darling Harbour / Friday 18 April / 6pm – 10pm

🍜 Chinatown – Street food & stories guided food tour
Sample a range of regional Chinese snacks while discovering Chinatown's secrets
📍 Haymarket / Friday 18 April / 11:30am – 2pm

Saturday

🍓 Carriageworks Farmers Markets 
This beloved institution showcases the freshest seasonal produce and artisanal delights from local NSW growers and producers. From farm-fresh vegetables to fresh cut flowers, there is a lot on offer for food enthusiasts.
📍Carriageworks Eveleigh | Saturday 19 April | 8am – 1pm

🧶 Intro to Rug Weaving on a Floor Loom
Unleash your creativity by handcrafting a unique rug in a single day, using repurposed materials that give new life to discarded items.
📍 ExMateria Haymarket / Saturday 19th April 2025 / 9am – 5pm

🎷 Slide McBride Roving Jazz Band
Come and be entertained as they perform on Marrickville and Illawarra Road shopping strip and at Alex Trevallion Plaza.
📍 Alex Trevallion Plaza Marrickville / Saturday 19th April 2025 / 11am – 1pm

🛍️ Drummoyne Makers Markets
Now every Saturday in a new indoor location! Meet local makers offering unique jewelry, original artwork, handmade ceramics, children's wear, local honey, pickles and jams, plus don't miss the Rotary Club of Drummoyne's bacon & egg rolls.
📍 17 Lyons Rd, Drummoyne / Saturday 19 April / 9am – 2pm

Sunday

🥚 The Grounds 2025 Easter Egg Crack
The Grounds of Alexandria's annual Easter Egg Crack event at Linseed House will feature the breaking of a one-ton chocolate egg, music, an appearance by the Easter Bunny, and chocolate to take home. Be quick, tickets sell out.
📍 The Grounds of Alexandria | Sunday 20 April | 4:30pm – 6:30pm

🐣 Easter Sunday Party @ Chuck & Sons
Join the Easter party, with goodies for everyone (adults, kids and dogs are all in for a treat), plus Sophie from Off With The Pixies will entertain the kids from 2:30pm - 4:30pm with an epic Easter Craft adventure. Book now.
📍 Chuck & Sons St Peters | Sunday 20 April

🐰 Easter Long Weekend @ The Royal Leichhardt
Enjoy face painting, an egg hunt, and a chance to win prizes including a Royal Easter Show family pass by guessing the weight of the egg jar. Enjoy a meal while you are there!
📍 The Royal Leichhardt | Sunday 20 April

🍫 Easter Egg Hunt @ White Bay Brewery
Chocolate for the kids and beer for the adults. Family and dog friendly.
📍 White Bay Brewery Balmain | Sunday 20 April | From 12pm

🎾 Tennis Coaching for Women
Tennis for all skill levels in a welcoming, inclusive community for women! Come experience the fun of the game in a supportive environment where players of every ability are encouraged to participate and improve.
📍 Cintra Park Tennis Club Concord / Sunday 20 April / 9am – 12pm

📆 Coming Up

🎤 Pass the Mic @ Balmain
Bodega Collective presents the first Pass the Mic of 2025, in collaboration with Inner West Council. An unforgettable community-driven music event, featuring 15 incredible artists sharing one stage in the stunning surroundings of Mort Bay Park. Expect live performances, great food, and breathtaking harbour views—all in one place!
📍 Mort Bay Park Balmain | Saturday 26 April | 3pm – 8:30pm

Kids Eat Free

Camperdown Commons | Kids Eat FREE this School Hols | 16 to 24 April 2025 | Grab a free kids’ meal with every adult main | See venue for terms.

Public House, Petersham | Kids Eat Free this school holidays (kids under 12 with every main meal purchased) | See venue for T&C’s.

• Aaron Scythe – Basara: the beauty of excess | Gallery LNL Newtown

• A Good Idea Exhibition | Tin Sheds Gallery Darlington

• Basia Zielinska "Sydney Heart Beats" Art Exhibition | Polish Club Ashfield

• Consuelo Cavaniglia: seeing through you | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Fourth Dimension group show | The Shop Gallery, Glebe

• Instrumental: Collections from Science | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Judy Lane – Memories of Landscape | Gallery LNL Newtown

• Kerameikos the Potters' Quarter | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Loving, Photographing & Saving Birds | Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown

• Micro

  – models of insight and inspiration | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Never Truly Naked by Guy James Whitworth | Miss Wolf Marrickville

• 'New Works By' – Stephen Brameld & Jay Staples | Art Leven Gallery, Redfern

• Sly Morikawa: What was, what will be | 4a - Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Haymarket

• Student Life: Max Dupain at the University of Sydney | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Tangled Forms group show | The Shop Gallery, Glebe

• The trace is not a presence ... | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• West | Utopia Art Sydney Waterloo

• XSWL: xiào sǐ wǒle | White Rabbit Gallery

• 'Yellow' – a group show | Tiliqua Tiliqua Enmore

Friday

• Camperdown Park | Doris + Es Muss Sein, Fear Of Horses | 5pm

• Crowbar Leichhardt | Nervosa + Bastardizer | 6:30pm

• Darling Nikki's St Peters | Sachet + Street Legal | 7pm

• Enmore Hotel | Punter + Gift Giver | 9pm

• The Lansdowne Chippendale | Dial Denial + Garage Noise, The Tin Heads, Madam Fatale | 7pm

• Marrickville Bowling Club | A*se + Chimers, Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers | 7:30pm

• Trocadero Room Enmore | Aloe Vera + Telopia, Elestial, ADHD | 6pm

Saturday

• Balmain Bowling Club | Juke Joint 3 | 5pm-8pm

• Botany View Hotel Newtown | Street Legal + Wild Tigers | 8pm

• The Bridge Hotel Rozelle | Models + Boom Crash Opera | 7:30pm

• The Chippo Hotel Chippendale | Doris + Es Muss Sein, Fear Of Horses, Body Shirt | 7:30pm

• Crowbar Leichhardt | Beddy Rays | 12pm

• Darling Nikki’s St Peters | Stoned To Death + Earthbong, Lucifungas, Iron Blanket, Arrowhead Destronomer, Braintattoo, High Friend, Bad Absalom, O’Sluggard | 2:30pm

• Enmore Theatre | Rag’N’Bone Man + Amélie Faren | 8pm

• Golden Barley Hotel Enmore | The Cannanes | 8pm

• Goodspace @ The Lord Gladstone Chippendale | City Chaos + Muddy Jewels, The Salty Tenders, Revel in Sound | 7pm

• ICC Sydney Theatre | Toto + Christopher Cross | 7:30pm

• The Lansdowne Chippendale | Inertia + Headwreck, Synge | 7pm

• LazyBones Marrickville | The Cutaway | 7pm

• Marrickville Bowling Club | K*ntsquäd + Miruthan, Fat Monica, Blood Trails | 7:30pm

• The Merton Hotel Rozelle | Pete Campbell & His Lazy Dog | 8pm

• Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Tim Rollinson Trio | 4pm

• Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Julia & The Swingin’ Sidekicks | 7:30pm

• MoshPit Bar Erskineville | Amita Hachidori & Kentaro Tamura + Whatever Nik Nak | 2pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Jordan Thomas Band | 5pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | FinKt | 9pm

• Vic on the Park Marrickville | The Lonesomes + Central | 9pm

• Warren View Hotel Enmore | Ludic | 9pm

• Waywards @ The Bank Hotel Newtown | The Tin Knees + Skirtless, Alex Fears | 7pm

Sunday

• Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle | Side Show | 3pm-5:30pm

• Balmain Bowling Club | Shane Flew Trio | 3pm-6pm

• The Bridge Hotel Rozelle | Models + Boom Crash Opera | 7:30pm

• The Dock Redfern | Highways + Gooseball, Cupholder Djs | 7pm

• LazyBones Marrickville | Charlie Ivan Band + Hinano Fujisaki, Sarah Sykes | 5pm

• The Merton Hotel Rozelle | FinKt | 8pm

• Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Stone Magnolia’s | 4pm

• Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Cous Cous Zazous | 7:30pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Continental Robert’s Juke Joint | 3pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Dr Gumbo | 7pm

Thank You!

Thanks for reading. Please feel free to reply with any feedback.

Reminder: Please check to confirm details are accurate with venues, event providers, restaurants and pubs by clicking through to their site. Events are occasionally cancelled at the last minute and specials can change.

Have a fun weekend!

Jess