In 2022, the short-lived, much-loved wine bar from Doom Juice’s Zac Godbolt and Sebastian Keys took over the garage and courtyard out the back of St Peters pub House of Music & Booze. Now it has a permanent home inside the old Poor Toms warehouse.
The fit-out follows the boys’ trademark maximalist approach: glowing neon sign out the front, big tiled bar and indoor-outdoor seating spanning bar stools, church pews and plush booths. There’s a custom Doom Juice claw machine at the front (for you to try your luck fishing out the wine label’s merch) and a large-scale oil painting by local artist Shane Salvador across one wall. But Taz Mackay’s spiked skull-shaped disco ball – a giant replica of the one from the Scooby-Doo live-action movie – is undoubtedly the centrepiece.
The team wants you to treat the space just like a cellar door – try the house wines (fizz, white, orange, pink and red), and maybe the special vermouth too, which Keys developed with Felix Clark of nearby Ester Spirits.
