Vic Best nightspots to go in Melbourne

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Yeah Lib Soshe is pretty sick on a Thursday, probably one of the better places to be honest. Drinks are expensive ($10 pints of Draught? Who are they catering for?!) but it's usually fairly busy, there's no lines to get in, you can sit down and have a few or have a boogie. Sometimes they have some decent bands playing and the DJs are always pretty good. It's probably the most hipster crowd you can get, Cant Say's worst pricks turned up to 11, but it's still good.
checkin' it out 2nite.

anyone have any thoughts on Power Station? never been before, meant to be hitting it up this w/e. what should i expect?
 

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what's good for the granny? preferably inner north but can travel.
The Curtin and Workers Club usually set up some big screens in the bandrooms and patronise some extension to happy hour. I've never been because it looks a bit sterile, but apparently the Great Northern is a big pub for the footy, it's like the designated Freo one, so I can imagine that going off. That's in North Carlton. The Rose too, though that's usually a bit of an older crowd, despite it being a great, proper, what-every-pub-should-be venue.

Footy is cool with hipsters now, they still can't drop punt though and they know nothing about the game and are generally even more insufferable as they talk in weird lingo about football, but most places down the main three in Fitzroy/Collingwood have been advertising GF days
 
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I'm now firmly in the Fitzroy/Collingwood/Brunswick vortex. Even trips to Richmond feel foreign. This place is a bubble
Even Brunswick and Northcote are like a day trip to me...

Richmond is a pretty shit part of town the more I think of it. I like the area up near Abbotsford a lot, with all the old shops and heaps of cheap Vietnamese, but its pubs are as tacky and franchisey (and expensive) as somewhere in the city, just not in the convenient location of the CBD.
 

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Even Brunswick and Northcote are like a day trip to me...

Richmond is a pretty shit part of town the more I think of it. I like the area up near Abbotsford a lot, with all the old shops and heaps of cheap Vietnamese, but its pubs are as tacky and franchisey (and expensive) as somewhere in the city, just not in the convenient location of the CBD.
Can't knock The Royal Hotel.
 

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Even Brunswick and Northcote are like a day trip to me...

Richmond is a pretty shit part of town the more I think of it. I like the area up near Abbotsford a lot, with all the old shops and heaps of cheap Vietnamese, but its pubs are as tacky and franchisey (and expensive) as somewhere in the city, just not in the convenient location of the CBD.
Bad call. Richmond is by far one of the best suburbs in Melbourne. Central to everything (can go either north or south with ease), great vibe, some great restaurants/cafes, and some very decent bars. There are a few tacky pubs, but it's got some crackers, particularly on Church St. Corner (upstairs is great), Royal after a game, London Tavern, Public House (awesome beer garden), Prince Alfred, The Great Britain.
 
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Bad call. Richmond is by far one of the best suburbs in Melbourne. Central to everything (can go either north or south with ease), great vibe, some great restaurants/cafes, and some very decent bars. There are a few tacky pubs, but it's got some crackers, particularly on Church St. Corner (upstairs is great), Royal after a game, London Tavern, Public House (awesome beer garden), Prince Alfred, The Great Britain.
North Richmond > Richmond.

Certainly not a shit part of town, that was hyperbolic, but it's lost its lustre. Personally.
 

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CBD is dead most of the week and St Kilda is trashtown.
st kilda has the best vibes in melbourne IMO. can get to revs easy as well. i guess if your a bro who doesn't leave fitzroy and only like to hang out with arts students and accounting graduates then yeah, i can see how us st kilda freaks would creep you out.
 
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