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Grasshopper is an inner city small bar – somewhere you can visit for an after work drink that isn't a massive beer hall. Make those drinks stronger and we'll sit in for a few more.
Here’s a true laneway bar, and the first of its kind in Sydney. There’s no signage and the only way you’d know where it was is to follow the tube tops and high heels down Temperance Lane, which smells a bit like old lettuce and a lot like old wee. It’s very authentic. Inside, the dark room is packed with happy drinkers sucking down beers and cocktails. The drinks, though unusual, aren’t brilliant in their conception or execution. They’re not super boozy, and some of them seem quite small. The bar, when it first opened, had numbered its cocktails #1 - #10, or thereabouts. Today, we order a #34 (a pony of light rum, a tablespoon of cherry brandy, six leaves of mint and a wine glass of cocoa soda (aka Schweppes Elixir) and a #37 (Jamaican dark rum, a pony of fresh orange juice and a tablespoon of Cynar, which the bartender mispronounces). It’s one of those bars that’s so full that you can’t hear the music till you’re in the toilets, but then you can make out a fairly pleasing 80s-90s mix. Grasshopper has paved the way for inner city small bars – check it out.
Sydney 2000
Telephone 02 9947 9025
Price per person including drinks $51 to $100
Open Mon-Fri 12 noon-12midnight
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Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
Just in 5 points : - service too long without smile (bartender really not happy to work here...) - too small, no place, no music just the noise of people. - price a bit expensive for this kind of drinks (especially for drinks served in a ridiculous small jar) - cocktails not really elaborate compared to some other bars such as Stitch for example ... - and as conclusion this atmosphere isn't festive ( i came a friday night), so badly for a bar who wants to be friendly and with a soul ....
Posted on Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:05:48
I see that my comment was deleted but I insist. I ate this week in the GrassHopper and I left really disappointed. I took a simple dish : a steak, the cooking wasn't correct. I'm not difficult but I asked to redo it to cook and apparently it wasn't appreciated by the kitchen staff. It wasn't professional... The welcome should be reviewed. The next time I shall go to eat somewhere else.
Posted on Tue 17 Jul 2012 12:22:20
I see that my comment was deleted but I insist. I ate this week in the GrassHopper and I left really disappointed. I took a simple dish : a steak, the cooking wasn't correct. I'm not difficult but I asked to redo it to cook and apparently it wasn't appreciated by the kitchen staff. It wasn't professional... The welcome should be reviewed. The next time I shall go to eat somewhere else.
Posted on Tue 17 Jul 2012 12:22:20
I see that my comment was deleted but I insist. I ate this week in the GrassHopper and I left really disappointed. I took a simple dish : a steak, the cooking wasn't correct. I'm not difficult but I asked to redo it to cook and apparently it wasn't appreciated by the kitchen staff. It wasn't professional... The welcome should be reviewed. The next time I shall go to eat somewhere else.
Posted on Tue 17 Jul 2012 12:22:20
I see that my comment was deleted but I insist. I ate this week in the GrassHopper and I left really disappointed. I took a simple dish : a steak, the cooking wasn't correct. I'm not difficult but I asked to redo it to cook and apparently it wasn't appreciated by the kitchen staff. It wasn't professional... The welcome should be reviewed. The next time I shall go to eat somewhere else.
Posted on Tue 17 Jul 2012 12:22:20
I see that my comment was deleted but I insist. I ate this week in the GrassHopper and I left really disappointed. I took a simple dish : a steak, the cooking wasn't correct. I'm not difficult but I asked to redo it to cook and apparently it wasn't appreciated by the kitchen staff. It wasn't professional... The welcome should be reviewed. The next time I shall go to eat somewhere else.
Posted on Tue 17 Jul 2012 12:22:20