This site aims to expose the secrets of the vibrant Melbourne night life to residents and visitors. We strive to provide reviews of bars and restaurants only after we have been to them and experienced the place for ourselves.
We have mapped the bars and restaurants reviewed so as to take the hassle out of finding the venue and to assist in the successful planning of a night out. Also we offer some Chasers to help plan a night out where we suggest several places to experience in an evening.
Finally, please feel free to leave a comment or email us and challenge our reviews or to tell us about somewhere new. We are always looking for new places to experience.
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Volume 5 Here is the next installment of the Garnish, a not so often look at what is happening in and around the Melbourne bar scene. We’ve got Australian Bar Award finalists, a little local bar news, a couple of great winter cocktails and a rumour or two.
Through an indiscriminate doorway and down a couple flights of stairs in a basement you will find Izakaya Den, a modern Japanese Izakaya that offers a different and exciting selection of food and drink which makes it the perfect place for a quiet evening out.
With its hidden entrance in a prominent Italian Restaurant, High Society ensures that you are looked after on a visit there. With its professional, personal service this is a perfect place to venture any time of the evening.
Simplicity at its best, this tiny wine bar in the CBD won’t disappoint. With its menu of whatever they feel like on the day, there is always something different to experience at Von Haus.
I’m pursuing my lifelong quest for the perfect, the absolutely driest Martini to be found in this or any other world. And I think I may have hit upon the perfect formula.You pour six jiggers of gin, and you drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth. – Alan [...]
JANUARY/FEBRUARY: Its been a busy couple of months recently for AlleyLife and we have been out a lot more in the city with the cool summer weather, which is why there has been a delay with writing. With that said, after a lot of “research” we are ready to get some more reviews up so [...]
With the new year looming ahead and getting myself into sweet sweet techno more; I put together this little mix. While not a rager it would be good to chill or drive to. Enjoy! You can download it HERE or read on to see the tracklist and details.
Hidden down Swanston Street, up a set of stairs is Sahara, which offers a drink for those looking for one or for those that are hungry some old favourite dishes with a gourmet international twist.
DECEMBER: After a short hiatus we are now back. Now things have settled after the shift its time for another edition of…THE GARNISH…recapping some things that have gone on around the Melbourne bar scene recently. In this edition; more awards for Melbourne Bars, new bars springing up around the place and more…
There is no other place in Melbourne quite like Madame Brussels, in fact it is more like going to a lawn tennis club in the 1970′s and holding a garden party on a sunny weekend afternoon, than an inner city bar.
