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Golden Monkey
Ph: (03) 9602 2055; rear, 389 Lonsdale St (Enter From Hardware La), Melbourne 3000
Cocktail/Wine Bar, $ -
Open Mon-Fri 5pm-1.30am Sat-Sun 7pm-1.30am; Licensed
Other published opinions
The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "Chairman Mao is kind of cool these days, but not at Golden Monkey where the opulence of prerevolutionary Shanghai still lingers"
The Age Clem Bastow, 24-5-2007 "Tired of Melbourne's various "authentic"Irish pubs and Germanic beer 'n' bratwurst barns? Do you want more bang for your buck when it comes to adorable cultural appropriation? Does Gwen Stefani's band of harajuku girls really float your dragon boat? Chances are, then, that you'll love Golden Monkey, the best thing to happen to bar design since the first reel of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It's Mama's secret recipe for a night on the tiles! Grasshopper! AZN represent."
The Age Michael Harden, 20-11-2006 "Golden Monkey is a bar that will knock the stuffing out of your drinker's ennui from the moment the lengthy drinks list falls open to a page listing 16 different tequilas, categorised (Blanco, Reposado, Anejo) and ranging in price from $7.50 to $24 (Porfidio Anejo "cactus"single barrel). The same trick is repeated for rum, single malt whiskey, vodka, sake and so on. And that is before you get to the artfully constructed cocktails or the lists of liqueurs and digestives."
The Age Cheap Eats Bars 2007 "You wouldn't know it from the unprepossessing exterior, but visiting the Monkey is like entering a Wong Kar Wai period film, complete with lacquered rosewood latticework, red silk divans, and some staff in shimmering cheongsams."
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