Nightlife
THE AUSTRALIAN PUB & BBQ pub review
If you’ve never made it Down Under, The Australian is Bangkok’s next best thing: an expansive pub on Sukhumvit Soi 11 offering toilets for “blokes” and “sheilas”, Socceroo cheerleader waitresses in short skirts, and pine weatherboard walls hung with Aussie icon portraits. Plus, it serves all things antipodean – everything from imported Aussie grog to live cricket, copies of The Age to tasty tucker like VB-battered fish & chips. Sip a schooner in the quiet upstairs mezzanine. Or enjoy the buzzing open-plan downstairs from a LCD TV-flanked pine booth, table or up at the 15m-long bar. Apparently the longest in Thailand, it extends out onto the large streetside patio: a great spot for people and sport watching, on the big screens. Beers are a tad pricey (B160 a bottle won’t win over Soi 11’s cheap charlies) and, yes, the décor verges on kitsch Aussie theme-park. Still, all things considered, The Australian makes a sunny change from the dour Irish and Pommie pubs that prevail here, and a nifty spot for pre-club tipples. Also, the Filipino 7-piece, 7-Senses, who provide the acoustic accompaniment are spot-on (full band WedSun, acoustic Sun-Mon) and know everything from their Clapton to their Rihanna.
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getting there
THE AUSTRALIAN PUB & BBQ [MAP3 / D6] 37 Sukhumvit Soi 11, Klongtoey Nua | 02-651-0800 9:30am-1:30am | BTS Nana | www.theaustralianbangkok.com 90 | august 2012
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