The Peak Cafe Bar is always busy. It must be something to do with the location, taking up two whole shop frontages on Shelley Street just off the esco, because it's just a bar and restaurant. It is extremely convenient to find, the interior layout (tables along one side, bar along the other) makes it easy to spot your buddy, and the toilets are sufficiently far away so you don't feel you've got the bum table by the bogs.
Peak Cafe serves a good range of beers, wines and spirits, as well as food. The food menu is reasonably large and quite eclectic, which is convenient when I want nasi goreng, and Mrs L wants a pizza. I suppose having this wide and diverse range of drinks and food, does make it easier to meet friends here, as everyone gets catered for.
What I do like about Peak Cafe, is that it's great for "after" drinks and food. Open until 2am every night, and one of the only places I have found to be serving food past midnight, Peak Cafe is great to have a night cap or a pre-bed pizza (note, it is only the pizza oven that stays open late).
Would I choose to spend a night here? Probably not, as I always feel the bar atmosphere is quite transient, as in full of people waiting to meet friends before moving on, or people coming for a last beer before home. However, this is what makes it good. Come and meet a friend, then come back later. Just don't stay here for the main performance. read more