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Stanley Street Station

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Alight here for a first-class journey to Tipsy-town

Editorial

Of late, it seems, Sydney's most brilliant bars are taking their sunshine less from the glint of the Tasman and more from the gloom of Melbourne.

More, than the chic of the southern sister, the Stanley Street Station borrows the more serious, but not sober, concept of A Bar. In a city so long dominated by both pubs and glitzy nightclubs, it's a great relief for anyone over nineteen or under sixty to have somewhere to go for a proper, grown up cocktail.

However, the bar, serious and as delightfully fit with retro touches as it is, leads to a restaurant. The bar area, certainly comfortable and impeccably maintained, feels like a lesser adjunct to the business of serving food.

This venue might not hit all the right notes for your evening opus. However, if the score to your life is an early romance, then it makes for a great first date venue. The prelude to a night can be played out at the bar tables; the real symphony can move to the restaurant if requires. As for the crescendo and the coda. Well, that's really not our business, is it?

Good service, dear little tasting plates and not-stratospheric drink prices make this a pleasnt place to while away an hour.

SM King, March 2011