The Forager: Adelaide’s ‘best’ small bar
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The Australian Hotels Association (SA) has made room for small bars in its annual hospitality awards, with Clever Little Tailor winning the new category of Best Small Venue last night at the Hotel Industry Awards for Excellence at the Entertainment Centre.
AHA SA general manager Ian Horne says the award acknowledges the quality and popularity of small bar venues.“It’s great that the AHA is now supporting small venues when it has not been in their members’ interests for so long,” says Marshall King, one of the partners in Clever Little Tailor.
“Since the small-bar licensing came through in 2013, there has been so much small-venue development, but not everything will survive.”
King and some of the partners who founded Clever Little Tailor in Peel Street are also set to open a new restaurant with a fire pit in the 4m-wide lane that runs off the western side of Leigh Street between Ajisen Ramen and Udaberri.
“Pink Moon Saloon will consist of two self-contained cabins with pitched roofs,” he says. “At the front there will be a small bar with a garden to the rear that leads to a restaurant at the back. The site is small, approximately 70 square metres, and will be licensed for up to 80 people.”
Although the restaurant won’t open until October, King is already getting the name out there with a Pink Moon Saloon event this weekend at the Botanic Gardens Conservatory. “We’re doing cocktails at the Happy Motel Nebula Deluxe on Friday and Saturday night.”
And according to Restaurant and Catering SA, another partner in the Clever Little Tailor group, Josh Baker (founder of Leigh Street’s Coffee Branch), has recently signed an agreement to open a new café in the foyer of the BusinessSA building on Greenhill Road in October.
Other Hotel Industry Awards winners included the multi-award-winning Stirling Hotel, which was named Best Overall Hotel and (jointly with 2KW) Best Restaurant.
“The Stirling Hotel has proven yet again they are well ahead of the game in terms of presentation, innovation, food, beverage and service excellence,” says Horne.
The full list of winners can be found here.
Source: IN Adelaide, Mary Taylor, July 29th 2015
Originally published as: The Forager: Adelaide’s ‘best’ small bar
