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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Archive for the ‘Snacks’ Category

Bar: Red Hummingbird

Posted by Macca On June - 17 - 2009

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Red Hummingbird is a Melbourne style bar without the need for it being hidden down a lane. With its cocktail lounge and rooftop bar, it definitely caters to all occasions.
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Bar: Gin Palace

Posted by Rob On April - 3 - 2009

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As the name suggests if you like the idea of a gin based drink, then Gin Palace is a fantastic bar to help you get better acquainted.
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Bar: Sista Bella

Posted by Macca On January - 16 - 2009

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This bar captures the Melbourne Bar concept; no indication of its existence on the street, hidden down the back of an alley, cosy and welcoming.
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Bar: Rue Bebelons

Posted by Rob On January - 16 - 2009

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Different to most bars in Melbourne’s CBD; Rue Bebelons is not hidden away down a dark alley but this laid back bar can be easy to miss.
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Bar: New Gold Mountain

Posted by Rob On December - 17 - 2008

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With one of the hardest entrances in Melbourne to spot, New Gold Mountain offers an Asian influenced cocktail bar with a very intimate feel and unique design.
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Bar: Mink

Posted by Macca On December - 15 - 2008

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With flavours brought through from behind the iron curtain, this bar is just like night clubs in the eastern bloc, it can be hard to leave as its sexy and intimate atmosphere takes you away from the worries of the outside world.
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Bar: Lily Blacks

Posted by Rob On December - 5 - 2008

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Down past the well known Meyers Place and Loop there is a bar in a relatively nondescript building that announces itself without fanfare, just a black curtain behind a doorway. Quite the opposite of the feelings inside the bar of Art Deco opulence that is Lily Blacks.
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Bar: The Order of Melbourne

Posted by Macca On December - 5 - 2008

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Old, young, student, lecturer, expensive tastes, cheap night out, The Order of Melbourne simply doesn’t care. This egalitarian bar across from RMIT offers a place for everyone to feel welcome no matter what the tastes.
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Bar: Paris Cat

Posted by Macca On December - 5 - 2008

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For the Jazz lover, this bar hidden away in a lane behind Hardware Lane, offers up great jazz in a French bee-bop era inspired environment and is sure to please.
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Bar: Section 8

Posted by Macca On August - 18 - 2008

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In M.A.S.H. Klinger’s way out was with a Section 8, which was the discharge the army handed out for the mentally insane during the war. Section 8 takes its name from this, while showing that one is needed in order to create something so left of field, yet so successful.
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