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garden with funky Dr Seuss-inspired lighting and a huge tiled central bar teeming with
travellers, gay guys and pierced locals.
DARLO BAR
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Kings Cross)
The Darlo's triangular retro room is a magnet for thirsty urban bohemians,
fluoro-clad ditch diggers and architects with a book or a hankering for pinball or pool.
Pool comp on Tuesday night; trivia on Wednesday. It's quiet during the day, but fires up
with DJs on Friday and Saturday nights.
BEAUCHAMP HOTEL
( 9331 2575;
www.thebeauchamp.com.au
;
265 Oxford St; noon-2am Mon-Thu, to 3am Fri & Sat, to midnight
Sun; Kings Cross)
The design lords have transformed this old corner pub into something
very hip indeed. On weekends it gets packed - and incredibly noisy - with stylish Eastern
Suburbs 20-somethings. There's a cool terrace upstairs and the Velvet cocktail lounge in
the basement. It's pronounced
Beech
-um.
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RUBY RABBIT
floor nightclub but it's the top-floor cocktail bar that's really worth checking out.
Sydney's most over-the-top space is best described as
Alice in Wonderland
drops acid
with Liberace in the Palace of Versailles: shiny teal surfaces, rococo couches, mirrors and
large portraits of duck- headed royals.
COCKTAIL BAR
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PALMS ON OXFORD
( 9357 4166; 124 Oxford St; 8pm-1am Thu & Sun, to 3am Fri & Sat; Museum)
No one admits to
coming here, but the lengthy queues prove them liars. In this underground dance bar, the
heyday of Stock Aitken Waterman never ended. It may be uncool, but if you don't scream
when Kylie hits the turntables you'll be the only one.
MIDNIGHT SHIFT
( 9358 3848;
www.themidnightshift.com.au
;
85 Oxford St; admission free-$10; noon-2am Mon & Tue, to 4am
Wed, Thu & Sun, to 6am Fri & Sun; Museum)
The grand dame of the Oxford St gay scene, the
Shift boasts two quite distinct venues. Downstairs the video bar attracts an unpretentious
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