The Belvedere Hotel

My epitaph will read «mangled at the Belvedere».
One would also hope there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house. No wait that’s dry whistle. At my funeral the bar tab will never run out! We can dream when we are drunk can’t we?
I spent last Friday night here, at the Belvedere, post-​treasure-​hunt drinks; post-​post-​work drinks; post-​post-​post beer pong (which I lost) celebrating the end of term — not school, work — in a private function room resplendent in its frugality.
Indeed it was like the sparse matrix had opened a portal and sucked up any notion of furniture, decoration or even decorum (for that matter).
My first drink was a 1-​tequila a 2-​tequila a 3-​tequila floor, and then it all went downhill from there till the tab ran out and then we were kicked out. Literally; not figuratively. Boot to bum, bum to pavement!
[Sidebar] Didn’t we all have one of those «just turned 18 parties», where you had a night on the Tequila’s (Pepe Lopez or that awful urine doppleganger Cuervo) and ever since, even years or decades later you still can’t touch the stuff?
I found my lifelong cure in New Orleans after a night on the Silver Patron had me hangoverless![End sidebar]
So, the Belvedere. Pretty small downstairs, pretty small upstairs. Nice balcony, but mind the scaffolding (they are renovating). Like the atmosphere, like the staff and like the style — It’s a little different than the standard inner city pub. Not too suity, not too hipster, but goldilocks!
My sanity? Well, that’s in the post (or is that past?)

Great place to have a nice relaxing drink after work. Friendly staff, good prices and well maintained facilities.
If you are after a relaxing pub during the week and a fun place to have a few drinks on a Friday afternoon/​night — this is the place to go in the CBD.
*get to level 3 for the best chilled atmosphere as the ground level can get crazy busy on a Friday night — head upstairs! Great seating arrangement too :)

Came here because I had a voucher from entertainment book.
Ordered some food — risotto and steak and was actually really nice.
Simple but with a twist. Yummy. Drinks were OK as well.
The place is big. Has couple levels and a court yard on Level 2 which I would love to enjoy me meal at but unfortunately smokers have the best deal in this place. So not fair.