Categories: Bar reviews

Match Bar & Grill

  Posted by Master Radish on Apr 20, 2010 | No Comments

Match Bar & Grill

249 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. (03) 9654 6522
I’d never heard of this place, but given its proximity to RMIT I feared it was going to be a student hangout and I was going to be mutton dressed as lamb. Then, as I got closer, it looked very ‘chain-like’ and a little too commercial for my [...]

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Categories: Coffee reviews

Cup of Truth

  Posted by Master Radish on Apr 19, 2010 | No Comments

Cup of Truth

12 Campbell Arcade, Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne.
This tiny hole in the wall underground in the CBD changed my life and turned me into a fully-fledged coffee snob.

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The Mess Hall

  Posted by Master Radish on Jan 6, 2010 | No Comments

The Mess Hall

51 Bourke Street, Melbourne. (03) 9654 6800
This place actually does serve food, but I’ve decided to review it as a bar, because I’ve yet to have a meal there. But I love it.

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Categories: Coffee reviews

Brother Baba Budan

  Posted by Master Radish on Oct 29, 2009 | No Comments

Brother Baba Budan

359 Little Bourke St, Melbourne. (03) 3960 6044
This tiny little place in the CBD is one of the key locations on any serious coffee drinker’s map of Melbourne.

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Double Happiness

  Posted by Master Radish on Oct 12, 2009 | No Comments

Double Happiness

21 Liverpool St, Melbourne. (03) 9650 4488
Double happiness is the Chinese character used to decorate the home of newly married Chinese couples. I might not be getting married any time this millennium, but this particular Double Happiness never ceases to bring me joy.

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Tuscan Bar

  Posted by Master Radish on Sep 28, 2009 | No Comments

Tuscan Bar

1/79 Bourke St, Melbourne, 3000. (03) 9671 3322
When I headed off to Tuscan Bar, I admit I was expecting a level of decadence. Their chandeliers and gaudy art are world famous in Melbourne and I thought I’d be basking in splendour. Not quite.

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Siglo

  Posted by Master Radish on Sep 12, 2009 | No Comments

Siglo

Level 2, 161 Spring St, Melbourne, 3000. 9654 6631
Located on a terrace above sister venue the iconic Supper Club, Siglo opened its doors last year. A lovely venue, but there was something missing the detail.

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Berlin Bar

  Posted by Master Radish on Aug 16, 2009 | No Comments

Berlin Bar

16 Corrs Lane Melbourne, 3000. 96393396.
If you’re looking for a bar with some serious shtick, I think we have a winner. Sliced up into east and west, the theme runs through from entrance to the cocktail menu.

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Emerald Peacock

  Posted by Master Radish on Aug 16, 2009 | No Comments

Emerald Peacock

Emerald Peacock
233 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000. 96548680.
Before I went to live overseas, the trend in Melbourne bars was a style of old fashioned luxury and opulence, a la Gin Palace. Emerald Peacock harks back to that theme and I just love it.

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Section 8

  Posted by Master Radish on Aug 8, 2009 | No Comments

Section 8

27-29 Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne
Well it seems that in the case of Section 8, some crates, graffiti and shopping containers do a bar make.

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