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Jan. 22nd, 2009 08:29 amI went out last night with a guy from WA via the Gold Coast who wanted to go to some of these "cool melbourne bars you can't find from the street." He gets his information from the Age, which apparently ran an article about being a cool melbourne person, which requires you to a)have a favourite bookshop that is not Borders; b)know people who are not straight; and c)visit bars that you have to go past a dumpster to get to.
That sentence is why I tend not to read the Age.
Anyway, apparently Hell's Kitchen is "quite nice, but too easy to find." So I took him down an alleyway, past dumpsters and disgruntled hospitality workers, and unidentified liquids on the ground, and the kind of interesting smells you get in a big city at the height of summer, round corners into more alleyway, and got him completely lost, and then walked underneath some fairy lights and into the Croft Institute. I don't think I've ever seen someone more relieved to see a repurposed science lab selling spirits.
That sentence is why I tend not to read the Age.
Anyway, apparently Hell's Kitchen is "quite nice, but too easy to find." So I took him down an alleyway, past dumpsters and disgruntled hospitality workers, and unidentified liquids on the ground, and the kind of interesting smells you get in a big city at the height of summer, round corners into more alleyway, and got him completely lost, and then walked underneath some fairy lights and into the Croft Institute. I don't think I've ever seen someone more relieved to see a repurposed science lab selling spirits.
