The Establishment Garden

NYE 2021. Same as NYE 2020. Loads of extremely ultra-attractive hot bar staff. Almost painful to order a beer without realising that your life is meaningless and utterly unexceptional. Though that’s just me. Still single. Establishment Bar is lovely, prices reasonable considering it’s topographical situation. At this NYE2021 meetup group for the third year running I came to the Establishment Bar. My hope was to meet a fellow traveller. My good friend in my loveless search Brendon said, well pretty much told me that I have to lose at minimum 10kg if I expected any interest. He’s right. I love beer. The Establishment Bar is one of those Sydney watering holes that look upper class but at the end of the day cater for the mass of uncivilised regular people looking to drown their sorrows in booze and bar food. The chips and chicken wings are average, meaning they’re enjoyable and tasty but nothing original or special. That’s not a dog at the Establishment Bar, it’s merely the observation of a punter who drinks and eats far too much fatty and delicious bar snacks across the city. Great place to observe the beautiful people. A parade of the lovely and hotly sexy and extremely generic lottery winners wearing beautiful well designed clothes. They walk around the bar as if on a catwalk and I for one enjoy the expression of early twenty first century fashion and casual beauty. As usual my efforts at trying to attract a over 50+ mate failed to materialise. I dressed up. Establishment Bar is a great place to strut your stuff whilst sucking down booze. Great environment. Awesome atmosphere and if only I was 10kg lighter perhaps my opportunities for a serendipitous event would have been improved. Drink and be merry because tomorrow you have to pay your bills and deal with your blabbering painful boss. I had fun and left as lonely as I arrived but a good place to be a loser.

The best Chicken Caesar salad I’ve ever had. Perfectly dressed (sometimes it’s either not enough or drowning in dressing), crunchy fresh leaves, perfectly cooked eggs, the chicken was soo tasty, love the fluffy Parmesan on top - 11/10 🥗 need this in my life! Great venue, and the service is energetic and welcoming

Bright and spacious interior which makes it the perfect setting for any occasion - from casual lunch catch-up to corporate group event. Food and drink prices are on the expensive side, but as expected due its location. I ordered the seafood linguine which was a good portion size, however, the pasta quality could be improved. Great cocktails and I’ll definitely consider coming back! ☺️

The security guard checked our bags before entering the bar. As soon as we walked in, it's a buzzing place. This was on Thursday night. A lot of working people that go here after work and kick on till late. It wasn't super packed so we got served quite quickly by the lovely bar tender. You can only order your normal mixers, beers and wines at the main bar. If you'd like a cocktail, you'll need to go to the bar at the back that does it for you. So we walked to the back, it took slightly longer then the main bar. A patron had dropped his drink and one of the staff quickly told another employee to mop down the wet area. Whilst the employee was getting a mop, the staff was telling everyone to watch their step. I haven't seen it happen so quickly and fast. The decor is also very nice. Very high ceilings, nice outdoor area that's covered.

Big open space and that too indoors. That was a surprise. Loved the environment, the music and the menu was really good with lots of options to eat and drink. Will surely visit again. Just an FYI, please use less salt in the Thai food as it has soya sauce which is already very salty. But otherwise great ambiance.

Me and my bf tried to go to Latin Salsa night on the 28/06. We were holding hands before getting in. The bouncer didn’t let us in because of my ‘ripped jeans’ even though I saw other people getting in on more casual attire than me. I tried to ask and he said ‘You are too casual’ and I asked ‘it’s Latino night? Or a fancy restaurant?’. He replied ‘yes but we still need to take care of who gets in’. It took me a while to realize the homophobia. Don’t want to try there again. Worse experience ever.