The Mill House Bar - Now Open

Basement Level, 277-279 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

We're delighted to be involved in Melbourne's newest and coolest underground bar, the Mill House.

Situated in the basement level of the c1850's Tomasetti Building on Melbourne's effervescent Flinders Lane, this new venue offers up beats, bites, and two bars!

We wish the Millet Group all the best with this new venture, and we're sure it will be a roaring success.

Visit The Mill House website here
Take the Google tour here 

Grand Duk - Now Open

Grosvenor Place Forecourt, 225 George Street, Sydney NSW

Grand Duk is a contemporary restaurant housed in the ground level forecourt of the iconic Grosvenor Place office building in Sydney’s CBD.The restaurant honours it’s sharp context, with a 125m² design that speaks to the existing Harry Seidler building. In a space that offers no existing front of house walls, H&E Architects have used a mixture of high and low dining options, communal tables, leather booths and dry bars, to construct a sense of intimacy.

The material palette is subtle, with aged brass, leather and black stained hand scrapped timber. The varying textures allow for increased warmth and definition in the space which is made from predominantly glass and grey stone. Drawing on some of the detailing of the tower, green onyx tabletops have been selected, giving a more specific and unique palette to the tenancy.

Working in close consultation with Harry Seidler & Associates, the final design for Grand Duk is understated and mature. It caters to a frenetic daytime customer with an open plan kitchen and an 11m long service counter. Partly open booths and banquettes and a spine-like wine display has been developed to maintain sight lines to the exterior walls and yet create a new sense of intimacy for patrons. These simple architectural devices give the restaurant a translucent and opaque rim, which establishes zones of transition between the exterior and interior zones.

Grand Duk is the recently established new partner of the Naked Duck, a restaurant that has found great success on Castlereagh Street, Sydney. The restaurant will offer lunch and breakfast, with a differentiated dinner service commencing from February 2016.

Visit the Naked Duck website here

The Bellevue Hotel - Now Open

159 Hargrave Street, Paddington NSW

After seven months of extensive renovations, the charming c1880 Bellevue Hotel is back with a stylish new look.

Regulars can expect something surprisingly different of the Eastern Suburbs favourite, with the ground floor now flowing seamlessly from bar to dining. The public bar is still the perfect place for a casual bite or drink with a group of pals, and the dining space has doubled in size, to include seating for 70, and has an eye-catching oyster and caviar bar.

Of course, we wish the WDS Hotel Group all the very best with the new look venue, and we look forward to popping in for dinner soon.

Visit the Bellevue Hotel website here
Visit the Bellevue Hotel Facebook page here

Sarita's at The Rocksia Hotel - Now Open

299-307 Princes Hwy, Arncliffe NSW

The main bar at the popular Rocksia Hotel at Arncliffe has undergone a transformation. Introducing Sarita's, a new destination bar & restaurant in Sydney's southern suburbs.

Inspired by Californian diner Gjelina's, this warm and inviting venue is the type of place where you can have a couple of drinks and a light bite at the bar, or spend an entire evening at a table with friends and family.

We wish the Feros Group every success with the new venue, and we're sure the Rocksia Hotel will now become more popular than ever.

Visit the Sarita's website here
Visit the Sarita's Facebook page here

 Images courtesy of The Feros Group