Sunday, October 25, 2009

balaclava

Lovely Lucy from the Design Files is a guest blogger at Design Sponge this week. She has asked a few fellow Melburnians (including myself), to post about their fave spots in their own hood. I should point out that Batch on Carlisle St also does great coffee (but I ran out of room!).
I would have loved a bar on my map but it seems that no one can get a bar right this side of town. There is the Carlisle Wine bar but no real pubs that play decent music that you can call a local. Everyone seems to think that renovated and lifeless is best. The Greyhound renovation is the most current example. I'm too scared to go in to see the abomination (you can see a bright fluoro lit bar from outside and I'm sure there is no one in there). Can someone please open a cool pub?

2 comments:

Tali said...

Love the map. So gorgeous.
I was so excited to see our little old Balaclava on design sponge, I live here too!
You're right, there is a distinct lack of cool bars down here. But I’ll live with that in exchange for the awesome Russian delis. :)

neryl said...

Thanks Tali! See you in the bagel belt sometime soon!