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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