Goodgod Supper Club and Small Club

Editorial

Goodgod nestles in Sydney’s Spanish quarter and is absolutely packed to the roof with soul and positive vibes. It (now) has a proper supper club at the entrance and in the back is the ‘club’ bit, entailing a quirky bar, black and white checkered dance floor, cosy stage and barrels of laughs. And yes, it’s a SMALL club. You would fit about two hundred–odd people in here and they will dance and they will sweat and thus you probably will too.

Initially, Goodgod was just the bar space out the back, and you’d have go past the strange empty dining hall out front, sort of a club within a restaurant. After a cracking opening year, Goodgod suddenly closed in 2009, but reopened months later with a great big wallop – the dining hall was no longer barren, and now encompassed a supper club and front bar. None of the energy or eccentricity was lost. The place was legitimately bigger and better.

Goodgod are the experts of the jug. You’ll have to lay down between 25-30 on one of these bad boys but they pack a punch (pardon the pun). $28 will get you a jug of Pimm’s, ginger ale and gin with cucumber (quite posh) and a sangria full of fresh berries will set you back $30. There’s a decent selection of local and imported beers and wine too.

Music varies from excellent live indie bands to DJs spinning demented house mash-ups. If you’re eclectic, you’ll love this place. The bar is studded with colourful blobs of fluorescent light that make it look like a crap Christmas decoration, and the rows of ragged white drinking booths resemble Dubrovnik cliff fronts. It’s almost as if some energetic being ran around pointing and yelling “Let’s do that here! Let’s put that there!” and so they did. Great fun.

Meri Harli, February 2011