Food & drinks menu
Burgers are the main event here — smashed, stacked and served with fries. Everything below is cooked in-house, there are heaps of real vegan and gluten-free options (not sad ones), and the lunch deal runs midday to 4pm, Monday to Saturday.
Burgers
All served with crispy fries — or corn chips and guac for a dollar more. GF option available; most can go vegan.
Cheeky Cheesy — smashed beef patty, cheese, onion, pickles, mustard, ketchup. The benchmark. $22 (make it vegan +$3)
Ringo — smashed beef, bacon, onion rings, cheese, lettuce, pickles, smokey BBQ sauce. $24 (vegan +$3)
Half Pound Possy — two smashed patties, cheese, onion, lettuce, pickles, special sauce. Bring an appetite. $28 (vegan +$3)
Blue Bulls — smashed beef, smoked wagyu rasher, blue cheese sauce, onion, lettuce, pickles. $26 (vegetarian +$2)
Flamin' Galah — grilled chilli chicken, pineapple, bacon, lettuce, onion, chilli aioli. $24
Just Gotta Go — grilled chilli chicken, piri piri sauce, cheese, tomato, onion, pickles. $24
Radio Birdman — crumbed chicken breast, coleslaw, pickles, wasabi aioli. $24
Sofishticated — battered barramundi, onion, lettuce, pickles, special sauce. $24
Fungin' Awesome — mushroom pattie, guac, cheese, tomato, onion, lettuce, pickles, special sauce. Vego (vegan option available), and nobody's settling. $26
Shnacks
Sneaky Fries $10 (salt & vinegar or chicken salt +$1)
Sweet Potato Fries — sweet chilli & aioli (gf, vegan) $14
Warm Potato Salad — creamy dill dressing (gf, vegan) $9
Pao de Queijo — Brazilian cheese balls, chilli aioli (gf, v) $12
Onion Rings — BBQ sauce (v) $14
House Spiced Edamame (gf, vegan) $12
Fried Chicken Nuggets — fries, chilli aioli (gf) $14
Fried Soft Tofu Dippers — sticky sauce (gf, vegan) $16
Large Buffalo Wings — blue cheese sauce. Three $10 / six $18
Jalapeno Poppers — corn chips, guacamole $18
Corn Chips and Guac $9
Bowls — all GF, $24
This Isn't a Burrito Bowl — chicken or tofu; guacamole, jalapeno sauce, mixed grains, smashed corn chips
Poke Bowls — salmon or tuna sashimi / chicken / tofu / smoked wagyu; edamame hummus, furikake, seaweed
Kung Pao Bowl — chicken or tofu; peanuts, Szechuan sauce
Mains
Chicken Snitty — potato salad, coleslaw, wasabi aioli. $24 (gravy +$2)
Chicken Parmy — snitty, smoked wagyu, homemade napoli, mozzarella. $28
Battered Barramundi — chips, coleslaw, special sauce. $26
Crumbed Lamb Cutletts — truffle mash, mezcal peas, vegies, onion gravy. $38
Dessert
Wine Not — chocolate mud cake, cherry and Malbec coulis, chocolate soil, dulce de leche ice cream. $16
Lunch deal — every burger and bowl $18, midday to 4pm
Monday to Saturday, midday til 4pm: any burger, any bowl, $18. Yes, including the Half Pound Possy. No, we haven't thought it through either.
Got a student card? It's $16 — any time we're open. UTS, USyd, TAFE, language schools, whoever: flash the card, eat like the rent's someone else's problem. Midday to midnight, Monday to Saturday.
Kitchen's open midday to 11pm. Heaps of gluten-free and vegan options — ask the crew, they actually know. Dogs get water on the house.
Drinks
On tap — 12 rotating, all independent, all Australian
The taps change too fast for a website. Follow @sneakypossumbar for what just got tapped, or come look at the board. Fortnightly Meet the Brewer Thursdays, the brewery takes the taps over entirely. See what's on
Tinnies
Stone and Wood Pacific Ale $11 · Reschs Pilsner $10 · Young Henry's Stayer Mid Strength $10 · Philter XPA $12 · Heaps Normal XPA (non-alcoholic) $10 · Sommersby Pear Cider $10 · Young Henry's Cloudy Apple Cider $10 · Framer Seltzer (ask for flavours) $11 · Little Dragon Ginger Beer $11 · Coopers Sparkling Ale $11 · Young Henry's Motorcycle Oil $12 · Yulli's Dolly Aldrin Sour $12
Signature cocktails
Strawberry and Sage Bramble — Tanqueray, strawberry & sage coulis, lemon. $23
Mandarin & Elderflower Spritz — mandarincello, Aperol, elderflower, Mandarin Napoleon. $22
Spicy Margarita — Casamigos Blanco, agave, lime, jalapenos. $22
La Siesta — Casamigos Mezcal, Braulio Amaro, grapefruit, pomegranate molasses, agave. $24
Presley Sour — peanut butter whiskey, bourbon, banana, egg, lemon, bacon garnish. $22
Sneakin Dead — smoked & spiced rums, pineapple, falernum, bitters, absinthe, smoke, fire. Yes, actual fire. $25
Maple Bacon Old Fashioned — maple and bacon-washed bourbon, bitters. $24
Sneakingway Daquiri — Pampero Blanco, Suze, grapefruit, lime, sugar. $24
Rum Rebellion Espresso Martini — with a couple of house secrets. $22
Pearadise City — pear liqueur, gin, pear syrup, lemon. $22
Elderflower Slipper — sake, whisky, elderflower, Licor 43. $24
Barrel aged
Time does the work; you get the credit.
Negroni $22 · Martinez $24 · Boulevardier $24 · Me Gusta — Casamigos Blanco, jalapeno, Suze, agave, citrus rind $24 · MacArthur's Rum Grog — Bundaberg Black 12yr, house native botanicals amaro, treacle, choc bitters $24
Classics
If it's got a name and a history, we make it properly — Aperol Spritz to Sazerac, Aviation to White Lady, $14–$26. A Bloody Mary with twelve different herbs, ports and spices ($16), a Martini that behaves ($22), a Manhattan that doesn't ($26). Full list at the bar.
Not drinking? Still drinking well.
A real non-alcoholic cocktail list built on Lyre's — proper drinks with proper garnishes. Nobody's stuck with soda water at this bar. (There's Heaps Normal in the fridge too.)
NA Negroni — Lyre's London Dry, Aperitif Sweet, Bitter Italian. $19
NA Spicy Marg — Lyre's Blanco Spirit, agave, house jalapeno sauce, lime. $18
NA Amaretti Sour — Lyre's Amaretti, lemon, egg white (or aqua fava). $19
NA Sneakin Dead — Lyre's Spiced Cane Spirit, pineapple, falernum, bitters, lime. $19
Wine
Australian-heavy and proud of it — Barossa to King Valley to the Hunter, by the glass from $9.
Whites from Mortar & Pestle Semillon–Sauv Blanc ($9/$36) to Collector "Lamp Lit" Marsanne ($72) and Chaffey Bros Not Your Grandmas Riesling ($68)
Rosé from $11/glass · Reds from Mortar & Pestle Cab Merlot ($9/$36) up to Dandelion Vineyards Treasure Trove Grenache ($118)
Doom Juice natural wines — rouge, rose, weiss, skins. $16/$66.60
Sparkling from $9 a glass — and yes, Veuve ($128–$198) for when the function upstairs goes well.
Happy hour runs 4–6pm, every day we're open. See the details on What's On