Ten years old this year, makes the Gin Palace a venerable old man among Melbourne's hip young cocktail bars. It has lost none of its greatness though. Well trained bartenders, a bookshelf of cocktail books, hundreds of bottles (including dozens of types of gin) means that if you want to stray from the ten martinis printed on their cocktail list, you can have just about anything. Also, the chairs are stuffed with goose feathers, the music is never too loud and it is open every day of the year (including Christmas). I don't live in Melbourne any more but if I did, I'd be there right now.

Russell Place, Melbourne

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Very good cocktails. The bars on Brunswick Street remind me of being in Hoxton, but without the attitude and fashion victims.

304 Brunswick Street in Fitzroy.

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This was the coolest bar I went to on Brunswick Street. I couldn't believe the red velvet decor in this place - it could be a Paris salon transported to present-day Australia.

401 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

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