The Toff In Town

Ph: (03) 9639 8770; 252 Swanston St, MELBOURNE 3000 www.thetoffintown.com

Cocktail/Wine Bar, $ -
Open Lunch Fri Dinner 7 days; Licensed

Other published opinions

Herald Sun Claire Sutherland, 15-07-08 Score: *** "Some head to the Toff for the music, some for the food"

The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "Impossibly elegant Toff may not be on Curtin House's top floor but it's the building's crowning glory, and its own crown jewel is a carriage of private booths with sliding screens, leather seating and a button for summoning the, er, conductor"

Herald Sun Simon Plant, 26-04-08 "WALK this way. Up Swanston St, into historic Curtin House, and up two flights of marble steps You are now on the threshold of The Toff In Town On your right, behind an upholstered vinyl door, is a performance space. On yoor Left. a bar and restaurant. We're thirsty and turning left, the first leg of a memorable Melbourne journey that mingles hot sounds and cool liquor with killer food."

The Age Michael Harden, 18-7-2007 "Why then is it so much fun to head up to the second level of Curtin House, take a left into The Toff In Town's Carriage bar, slip into one of the private booths (arranged down the centre of the room like the dog boxes in trains of yore) and close the door on the rest of the world? Once ensconced in your private bamboo-blind enclosed nook, the only social interaction you get is with your waiter (summoned at the touch of a button) or when you stagger out into the gloomily lit passageway to grope your way towards the toilets."

The Age Larissa Dubecki, 3-7-2007 "It's split into two parts: the stage, with its mezzanine bar, and another bar across a hallway designed like an old-fashioned train carriage, with sexy private booths that can be booked, each with a silver button for summoning wait staff. The menu operates on a timetable (aperitifs 5pm to 7pm, mains 7pm to 11pm, supper 11pm to late."

The Age Clem Bastow, 18-5-2007 "Dark and inviting, with upholstered walls and just enough mirrors to confuse undesirables into heading back out the door by accident, The Toff's entrance hall leads you past a "train carriage"of booths to the bar. Blissfully non-smoking (with smoking balconies), the bar is very civilised, indeed. We ordered an obscure European lager and a Baileys on ice, as both were available and neither raised so much as a snobby eyebrow. Like sister in swellegance, Blue Diamond Social Salon, The Toff's booze and surrounds may be flash but the bar staff are friendly and unpretentious."