Harlow Bar

Been here 20+ times for brunch now. Always a great time. Good cocktail jugs, good food, the queens are always engaging, the hosts are fantastic especially Gabbi and Ciara. Highly recommend for a fun day or the start of a big one.

Negative experience for rooftop brunch – We attended the rooftop drag brunch. It was 37 degrees and their sunshade kept automatically opening due to "malfunctioning". This meant we were sitting in direct sun on a very hot day in Melbourne summer. We had to ask multiple times for our water to be replenished and for more drinks to be given to us. The service was honestly very poor,… Read more

probably due to being understaffed I assume. Our particular server was very dismissive of our concerns. I eventually asked for the manager after our multiple concerns were ignored. He was great and suggested we move the tables out to move partially out of the sun which somewhat worked, however this was at the end of the experience. This resulted in multiple people getting sun burn, some people feeling nauseaus and one person getting mild heat stroke. Considering this is a rooftop venue in Australia, there should be contingencies for hot days like yesterday.

Another staff member later asked if anyone offered us sunscreen which did not happen.

The music was far too loud, you have to constantly shout at people the whole time to be able to hear each other.

I personally won't be coming back however I'm sure in cooler weather it would be better. Though I truly don't believe the bottomless drinks was worth $79pp considering no one could taste any alcohol and no one left feeling even tipsy.

Positives: The manager was lovely and the woman downstairs was also really nice. The one server on the rooftop with piercings was also very lovely and apologetic. The food was great.