Exclusive | The new authentic pub throws a little Australia at NYC Barbie – but don’t go looking for ‘Crocodile Dundee’ posters

Say “G’day” in Manhattan’s newest hot spot.

MATES OLD, a widespread, three-storey pub by Pier 17 to South Street Seaport, is set to provide New Yorkers an authentic flavor of the Australia-21-hour flight that is not required.

“We are very surprised that the Australian Pub scene was not really introduced,” Andy Stone told the new place posting “Unique”, which he founded with his brother, the Creator of Blueston Lane Nick Stone, Restaurator Eddy Eddy Eddy Buckingham and radio star Andy Lee.

It turns out that Stone’s Surrise was guaranteed – the old spouses, planned to officially open at the beginning of next month, held a living feast on Friday evening, which felt the hottest ticket in the city.

Curious locals and Aussie immigrants alike, including “success” star Sarah Snook, filled at the scene, packing every inch of 10,000 square meters.

Outside, hundreds of others were expecting to enter a line that grabbed around the snowy block.

“I waited 90 minutes to get inside,” an ecstatic Aussie withdrew, before watching a friend make a “shoey” – a unique Australian ritual involving drinking alcohol from a shoe.

Migrants from Down Under – Back home, neighboring pub is the blood of the life of every small city and the suburbs of the big city. It is a collection site for locals to shoot the breeze, sink a beer, and eat a hearty meal.

Now, the old friends are set to serve the same function for the lower Manhattan.

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Located in the former -Post Trading Post building in John Street, the ambitions of old friends are visible in its full size.

“Great Frickin,” Stone said about the Gargan area containing four separate bars placed over three levels. “Australian pubic culture is based on large self -rooms with numerous rooms so that you can cure the experience – and this is what we are really supported.”

The first floor feels a large knight bar, some private dining cabins, a pool table and a perfect platform for showing from a live group or DJ.

Up, a cozy dining space called the “port room” will serve the classic mature Aussie dinner every Sunday, while a “Lounge Carpet Sticky” is set underground.

That isolated, underground place will undoubtedly become a port element for carriers seeking to complete a successful date with a late night lid.

As for the décor, Stone and its co -founders have spared no expense to make pubic feel like it is authentically Australian.

“Next an Aussie pub. Not an aussie-theme Pub, ”Stone said. “You will not see the ‘Crocodile Dundee’ posters on the wall.”

On the contrary, it is in the forefront of new art and design movements, something that is reflected in the interior of the old spouses.

There are custom -made carpets and costly paintings, including the originals by some of Australia’s most famous artists, including Ken Done and Reg mombassa.

“It feels legally as a home,” Stone said. “Feels like any of the Marquee drinks in Sydney or Melbourne.”

This Australian -born reporter can prove that he is right.

‘PUB GRUB’

Aussie Cafe’s culture has been exported to the Big Apple mass last decade, with avocado toast and flat whites now almost as ubiquitous as Nathan’s hot dog carriages.

In almost every New York City Nabe you can find Americans sitting at lunch at an Aussie cafe – from two hands to the Tribeca to Ruby’s in East Village.

However, it is the neighborhood pub which is the most important place for food and drink down – and older friends are now offering that culinary experience.

“We will have a really raised menu based on the essential values ​​of what is Australian pub cuisine,” Stone explained. “At such a high quality that people will swell by trying everything.”

Old friends will serve fresh local products and the Australian premium beef, all in affordable pubis.

In the menu: Aussie Classics like lamb chops, steak and chips, and a burger “with tears” (for the uninvited: it means it came to the top with pineapple and a fried egg).

The list of wines is also 100% Australian, and there are a number of sources of products and spirits from below.

Atmosphere

While food and drink in an Aussie pub can be important, is the atmosphere that is primary.

In older friends, the goal is to make new friends – including employees behind the grass.

General manager Amanda Verratti has gathered a team of urber counterparts and reception staff, and to say that the personality was primary during the process of hiring.

There are currently about 25,000 Australians living in New York, and many will undoubtedly find the old friends a comforting home away from home.

And they are likely to be united by many of their American friends who are looking for something foreign without fuss.

“The locals living in Lower Manhattan knew at the door and eagerly waiting for us to open up,” Stone said.

“The amount of people in Manhattan who are associated with an Australian or have been in Australia is amazing.”