For the 'non-date' date, The Local Taphouse is a great place to tap that, figuratively and literally. The decor makes it cooler than your average pub without being a wank - instructions to 'Drink Beer' in large wooden letters and oversized lights hanging above the front bar, bookcases and birdcages for light fixtures in the restaurant upstairs. But most importantly, it offers a tonne of specialty beers on tap. You can even get the none-too-ghastly gimmicks going with a 'beer taster' - five 90ml beers for $13. Sure to get the juices flowing..conversationally.
If the beers are going down well and things are looking on the up, make it more intimate and head to the restaurant upstairs. They even take bookings - an increasingly common Sydney rarity. There's a massive menu with some brilliant standouts including the 3-beer marinated beef burger and the lemon, leek and thyme mussels. Plus there are desserts like beeramisu to add another talking point.
But if you're still struggling to make conversation this late in the game, the only thing that's getting tapped is another beer. Almost a win each way, no?
Brownie Points P.A rating: Also perfect for the keep-it-casual, no-cringe double date.
*coyote ugly: A situation encountered after a night of consuming alcohol whereby a person, usually male, wakes the next morning in a strange bed with a sexual partner from the previous evening who is completely physically undesirable and sleeping on the man's arm. The hapless male would rather gnaw off his own arm than wake the woman and have to face the ills of his intoxicated choices the previous evening. Originating from a phenomena whereby a coyote captured in a jaw trap will chew off its own leg to escape certain death. (Urban Dictionary.com)
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