Overlook is the Astor Theatre ’s (Windsor’s 80-year-old single-screen cinema and Art Deco treasure) nifty adjoining cafe and bar. The black-and-white photo of Jack Nicholson at the ’20s party from The Shining hangs above the bar.
The site was the Astor’s original sweet shop in the 1930s. Then it was a laundromat for 30 years until the Astor bought it back in February 2017.
Overlook does coffee, Baking Bad cupcakes (vegan), Harrow & Eton pies and Doughboys Doughnuts. There’s cheese from Milk the Cow and charcuterie from D.O.C. as well. There are also good Australian spirits behind the bar – Starward Whisky , Four Pillars gin, Melbourne Moonshine and The Everleigh’s bottled cocktails.
The bar is called “Overlook” because, like the famous hotel from The Shining , the historic cinema has an ethereal, transcendent quality like it’s always been there.
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