The Living Room
Editorial
The Living Room isn't, actually a living room. It's mostly restaurant, with a tiny bar area inside, though there is a very decent terrace at the front if you can trust the Sydney weather - and it'll be even more pleasant once the renovations are finished outside. There's no indication when this monumental task of refurbishment (planting 4 trees and relaying exactly 136 pavers) will be completed , but in the meantime you might be interested to observe sweaty young men in singlets doing very little during your lunch hour. Or then again, you might not. Entirely up to you.
This is a mini-bar and a largish restaurant and function room above a shopping centre amid North Sydney's business district, catering for a mainly lunchtime crowd of suits who can't be bothered to travel more than a few metres to seal that deal. There are definitely plenty of suits here (can they not walk?), which gives the place a certain boardroom ambience.
North Sydney has one or two issues: buzzing during the day, it more or less shuts down after 5pm on school days, and on weekends tumbleweed has been known to roll through the empty streets. The Council is, however, making noble efforts to keep it alive outside office hours, and the Living Room is doing its bit, opening Thursday and Friday evenings when the suits are allowed to stay up late, and it will open up for functions and group bookings at a time of your choosing. There's a menu of good, standard businessman's fare and an honest wine list, plus some nice cocktails. A good place to oil the cogs and wheels of commerce and keep that expense account active, and for most patrons, it's just a short toddle back to the desk.
Austin Harrison, May 2008
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