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    Marble Bar

    3.8 (33 reviews)
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    What's the vibe?
    Classy
    Live music
    Very loud
    Good for groups

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    Appreciation for the details in the bar and ceiling
    Kailey O.

    Drinks are very expensive! The ambiance is low key, dim, and speakeasy like. I ordered a Moscow mule, which was very good - lots of fresh lime flavor with the ginger. Then I had a schooner of the Pale ale on tap. Also very good. Bartenders are very friendly, and seem to really want to help you. I have not been here to listen to live music, but hopefully that is in my forecast. I was alone here, and the couches were a comfortable way to spend some time with a drink.

    Merissa G.

    Happy hour Monday through Friday from 6-8 and it features some fabulous custom drinks. They have a great deal of architectural significance and beautiful history about the building is explaining in their drink menu. The bartenders are fabulous and make a mean cocktail while they offer live music and a relaxing atmosphere. They're located inside of the Hilton hotel and near by nice fine dinning. Seating is comfortable and spread out enough to allow for private conversation or more intimate environment tucked in the corner. They have a wonderful selection and I wouldn't hesitate to return or recommend to anyone. I could spend hours looking at the art and building itself.

    Paul J.

    It was Saturday night and my friends and I wanted to originally go to Zeta Bar. After taking the lift up and refusing to pay cover to enter a BAR, we decided to go downstairs to Marble Bar. It is located in the basement level of the Hilton. Blaring live music could be heard as we headed down and into the dimly lit bar. It was pretty crowded with a varied demographic, everyone dancing to the band's covers of different hits. Apparently the place is an icon, famous particularly for its marble columns, intricate woodwork, and stained glass. More significant, the bar used to be in an entirely different location; it was disassembled and relocated to the Hilton Sydney, and renovated in '05. They have a lengthy menu of cocktails and spirits, the former hovering around $20 a drink. I tried my friend's fruity cocktail and although it was fresh, it tasted like just juice. But most drinks I've had in Sydney were pretty weak. The live music was fun I guess but much too loud, resulting in me losing my voice from screaming conversation to the person right next to me.

    Alice T.

    Julia has already wonderfully written up the historical charm of this Sydney gem, and I'd love to echo her enthusiasm, if my last experience hadn't been so 'meh.' We were looking to kick off our evening with a cocktail before we headed upstairs for dinner at Glass. There was a 30th birthday taking up one end of the bar, but the party-goers were also spilling over to fill the entire length of the bar. Oh well. Eventually we were served by a jovial bartender, but alas he seemed more concerned with flashing flipping of bottles and shakers than actually getting our order right. To be fair, my Royal Spiced Pear Mojito was just delicious - and at $18 you'd want it to be! - but my date's vanilla and passionfruit martini was served without anything resembling vanilla. Still, the stunning surrounds are absolutely worth a visit (again, see Julia's review) - but perhaps we should have kept a better eye on our cocktails.

    Sally R.

    Hidden below the Hilton Hotel Sydney lies the Marble Bar. At night, it fills with bright young things looking sharp, but by day it lays mainly abandoned. Unlike the rest of the Hilton's franchise in Sydney, it's not TOO MUCH. It's a little bit less intense, a little bit less tacky.. far more geniune feeling. However, some of the Hilton trademarks remain - the price tag, for one! Cocktails sitting around the $20 mark are all well and good for Hilton guests, but I'm afraid that us local student types just can't stretch to that every Saturday night. They do taste good, though! Prices aside, I don't like Marble Bar because it's just so damn DARK! Seriously - the lack of light is creepy! If you're a Twilight fan, perhaps go here to find your ideal mate..

    Daron S.

    This bar is absolutely beautiful!!! I was in awe of the place. If it was based purely on looks they would get 5 stars. However, based on overpriced drinks (16 dollars for a Moscow Mule!!), the people that go here to party, (Some jerk grabbed me around the waist and also offered to take advantage of my friend's mini bar upstairs), and the sad 90's American covers. Think TLC and Boys 2 Men, make this place somewhere I don't want to show my face. I did go early around 5 and it was filled with much older men in very nice suits enjoying a drink after work. I wish that was the case for the whole evening. It was awful how such a historic bar could be filled with such unappealing people or music. This place should have live jazz or Frank Sinatra covers.

    Rebecca O.

    Had my 30th Bday party here. After a few dramas about cake and wearing masks inside the bar etc. We had a great night! The boys on the bar went out of their way to look after us. The canapés were delicious and the band was amazing. I hired and brought my own magician and there was no problems with that. The drinks were expensive but must expect that in the city. Overall was one of the best nights of my life and staff contributed to that! Beautiful old world atmosphere will be back for a quiet drink here soon.

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    An incredible underground hidden gem! Must see bar when visiting the area and it comes with good history.

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    Great venue. Outstanding cocktails. Wonderful atmosphere and charm. Service was on point

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    Beautiful bar. But the music makes it impossible to be in there. Lasted about 10 minutes.

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    Very unique. Missed the music but you could see it's a nice gathering place after work. Convenient to much but especially Hilton guests.

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    Had a great night and the live band was amazing, you need to get in early to get a good spot because it gets really busy.

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    Review Highlights - Marble Bar

    The Hilton Hotel should, for the most part, turn everything it touches to a gold veneer.

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    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro - Front of the hotel

    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro

    2.8(9 reviews)
    0.2 kmSydney
    $$

    The Criterion, post PJs renos, is a standard faux-Irish pub slap bang in the middle of the city…read more(close to Town Hall). Being close to where I used to work, I'd frequent this place quite a bit, and before it was a PJs it was a mates fave city pub so we'd catch up over a few here from time to time. There's a pretty good mix of people in the street-level bar, and PJs have converted it into more of a sports bar so there are plenty of screens for the sports nuts to check out their favourite teams prospects. PJs typically have pretty good fare. In winter they have two absolute cracking dishes. The Guiness Pie with mushy peas, and their signature lamb shanks which is totally unctuous. Why such a modest score? Price kills the place. It's not one of the cheaper places to get a beer as someone incorrectly states in their tips, it's easily one of the most expensive places to get a beer. You're paying over the top prices for domestic tap beer. A cheap beer is $5 for a Coopers Pale Ale, which you can get on the same street about 200m up the road... Also... As much as I enjoy a good pokie section, this one ain't good. And by that I mean the clientelle. It brings in the undesireable types, and sours what is otherwise a sweet pub. The snug, the downstairs den, has a great looking bar, and "snug" seating, but it's kinda pointless down there. It doesn't feel snug, it feels stuffy and claustrophobic - and the bar has never been manned when I've been down there. Now, if they moved the pokies to the snug, and then opened up the entire bar at the street-level to include the room vacated by the pokie section, you'd have something. But why would they do that when they can get by with what they have.

    I went for lunch here not too long ago and it was a great Irish pub. Rich Mahogany wood and a wide…read moreselection of beer on tap, with food selections that you'd find in most other Irish pubs. Being in the city, it can get quite busy very quickly and is a decently sized basement multi-storied pub. TV screens are usually are usually playing Fox sports or something similar. I order the Parmy, just to be on the the safe side. I wasn't too game to try the Pie which is supposed to be one of the best (as judged by Irish people I work with) around. The food is carefully prepared and you can tell the produce is quality and they've cooked it properly which some pubs sometimes struggle to do consistently... The chips were the standout side, crisp and crunchy! Definitely will be trying the stew or pie, that is if I'm brave enough to.

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    PJ Gallagher's Sports Bar & Bistro - Guinness stew pie thing. SO MUCH YUM!

    Guinness stew pie thing. SO MUCH YUM!

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