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(12-14-2011 05:22 AM)P Dog Wrote:  

• College Lawn (Greville St) – Pulls an older crowd but sounds like a good place for a Sunday afternoon beer. Not open late.

College Lawn is a sports bar. Its well known as the place to watch rugby in Melbourne. Gets ridiculously packed for Super 15 finals and any tri nation match. You cant move when the mighty All Blacks play the pitiful Wallabies.

Not a bad list but a few omissions from this list. The Belgian Beer Cafe (Bluestone) on St Kilda Road is missing. This place packs out on a friday and is loaded with your corporate types. Bridey O'Reilly's on Chapel Street is missing. This is always pumping. Used to be a church but now an Irish pub. Only the Irish would convert a church to a pub And where the hell is The Espy on this list? It is an insult to have a list of bars in Melbourne and not have this venue on the list. It is the premiere bar for seeing bands at in Australia, let alone Melbourne. Its the place where bands like ACDC, Inxs, Split Enz, Crowded House, Powderfinger and other big name Aussie/NZ bands started out. And its a pretty cool place just to chill and have a few beers in the afternoon as well being right by the St Kilda foreshore.

List also seem to focus on Chapel St, the Eastern Side of the city and St Kilda. There is a hell of a lot more to Melbourne than this.

One area of Melbourne not mentioned is the Docklands. This is the new boom area of Melbourne. Lots of bars and restaurants in this area and a few night clubs. There is a whole strip of around 20 restaurants in the Docklands by the water.

Couple of bars to mention are:

Docked - Spanish tapa's bar. Small bar - always has a young crowd, mainly corporate types from the banks nearby and people who live in the many apartment blocks in the Docklands

The Nixon - Named after the infamous US president. Sports bar which has an ever changing crowd being located very close to Etihad Stadium. Meals are awesome and well priced here. Best time for crowds are 2-3 hours before a game and pretty much straight after a game until closing.

Waterview - place packs out with corporate professionals after hours. Located on the ground floor of the NAB building.

Alumbra - The best nightclub in the Docklands area. Located on Central Pier. Very pricey. A lot of channel 7 and 9 celebrities drink there.

Docklands basically has around 25-30 bars/restaurants all within close walking distance of each other. Has plenty of high rise apartment blocks as well. Has a mall although its not too popular. Has what is going to be the Melbourne Eye (same as London and Singapore ones) but it broke 2 weeks after opening (3 days of 44, 45 and 46 degrees celcius buckled it). Its currently being reconstructed.