Mystery bar number 36

mystery barOkay, last week’s mys­tery bar was way too easy: it’s Elec­tric Aven­ue in Cour­tenay Place, which has just opened in the two storey build­ing vacated by Saf­fron last year. Most bars go for a stealthy approach when they’re under renov­a­tion, keep­ing their win­dows papered over until the open­ing, but Elec­tric Aven­ue took the unusu­al approach of actu­ally dis­play­ing archi­tec­tur­al plans and sketches, so we all had a fair idea of how it would look when it opened.

So, now we have an Eighties bar: hoo­ray.

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Mystery bar number 35

There are plenty of issues I could be writ­ing about today, such as wheth­er the Har­bour Quays devel­op­ment will suck the life out of the CBD, the mer­its of the new Cath­ryn Monro sculp­ture planned to go out­side the Musuem Hotel, and of course the end­less trans­port debates. How­ever, I seem to have got into a pleas­antly intox­i­gen­ic mode this week, so it’s time for anoth­er mys­tery bar.

mysterious

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