The empty back room: one long timber table set for forty with mismatched wooden chairs under warm pendant lights, brick walls either side.

The back room

Brick walls, one long table, mismatched chairs and a door you can close. It has held 21sts, wakes, engagements and four small weddings since 2019.

Enquire about a date

40
Seated at the long table
70
Standing, plates passed
$1,200
Minimum spend, Fri and Sat, from

Set the room three ways

Switch between the layouts and watch the room rearrange. This is the same plan we work from on the night.

Capacity

40 seated

Minimum spend

from $1,200 Fri and Sat

Best suited to

Birthdays, engagements, small weddings

Ten tables of four down the room, service either side, speeches from the bar end.

The numbers, plainly

Seated capacity40 at one long table
Standing capacity70 with plates passed
Minimum spend, Friday and Saturdayfrom $1,200
Minimum spend, Wednesday to Thursday and Sundayfrom $700
Room hirewaived once the minimum spend is met
CakeBYO, and there is no charge for cakeage
Exclusive use of the whole venueby arrangement, Sundays are easiest
Deposit$300, credited to your final bill

What comes with the room

A door that closes, and the bar staff to go with it.
Speaker and a microphone for speeches, or silence if you prefer.
Long table set with linen, candles and glassware, or cleared for standing.
Step-free entry from Example Street and an accessible toilet on the same level.
Your own playlist, or ours, at a volume that lets people hear each other.

Three ways people use it

Standing, plates passed

$65 a head

Eight plates sent to the room across two hours: oysters, terrine, leeks, potatoes, cheese. Works from 25 up to 70 people. Drinks on consumption or on a bar tab you set.

Seated, down the long table

$85 a head

Three courses shared down the middle, up to 40 people at one table. Two and a half hours, one round of speeches, and we will keep the bread coming while people talk.

Wake, afternoon

$45 a head

Sandwiches, soup, cheese, tea and a bar tab if you want one. Quiet room, no music unless you ask, and we will hold the space for as long as the afternoon needs.

Dietaries are handled properly rather than apologetically — tell us at the time of booking and every guest gets the same number of plates. Prices in AUD, include GST, and drinks are charged on consumption unless you set a tab.

Shared plates on a dark table by candlelight: cured fish, sourdough, olives and butter.

Enquire about the back room

Tell us the date, roughly how many people, and what the night is. Josie answers these herself.

Just after a table for four? Book a table instead.