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Post by ozgringo on May 5, 2016 7:22:58 GMT -5
This evening my wife, young son and I went to Chatswood, a suburb in Sydney to buy a mothers day present. We left the shopping centre to look for something to eat. ( I was thinking Peking Duck) Low and behold we came across La Latina. A little Latin American eatery just off the main street. www.facebook.com/LaLatina2012/photos?ref=page_internalIt was great having some Colombian cuisine and beverages (Aguila, Pony) down under. Thoroughly recommend it if you are ever in Sydney.
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Post by barrumundi on May 5, 2016 10:25:44 GMT -5
Good find ozgringo. Last time I was in Sydney I was with my wife and grandson and we were looking for Colombian cuisine. All we found was a little cafe decorated in Pablo Escobar type stuff and we found a hotel called 'The Colombian' .........but it was a gay bar.
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Post by jafo19d on May 5, 2016 13:11:24 GMT -5
Pony Malta? Yuck
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Post by suba on May 5, 2016 13:28:33 GMT -5
Colombian food - seriously? People actually eat this stuff when there are choices?
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Post by jafo19d on May 5, 2016 13:52:52 GMT -5
I love Colombian food!
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Post by billyb on May 5, 2016 14:01:32 GMT -5
Good find ozgringo . Last time I was in Sydney I was with my wife and grandson and we were looking for Colombian cuisine. All we found was a little cafe decorated in Pablo Escobar type stuff and we found a hotel called 'The Colombian' .........but it was a gay bar. Jajaja. Did you still go in?
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Post by barrumundi on May 5, 2016 14:49:24 GMT -5
Good find ozgringo . Last time I was in Sydney I was with my wife and grandson and we were looking for Colombian cuisine. All we found was a little cafe decorated in Pablo Escobar type stuff and we found a hotel called 'The Colombian' .........but it was a gay bar. Jajaja. Did you still go in? My wife and grandson waited outside but I went in to have a look. There was only men inside ......no women .......but that is not uncommon in Australia. Not so much these days but traditionally men used to drink in the Public Bar and women used to drink in the Ladies Lounge. The Public Bar was always a 'blokey' place full of workmen in work clothes and lots of swearing. The Ladies Lounge was more quiet and more elegant. It was only when I saw the poster in the window advertising a gay revue that I realised it was a gay bar.
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Post by billyb on May 5, 2016 14:50:58 GMT -5
Where did the name come from, was it owned by a Colombian?
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Post by barrumundi on May 5, 2016 15:02:18 GMT -5
Don't know where the name came from. I had some photos but can't find them now. After I left the hotel and was wandering around sight seeing (as you do)........I realised the whole area was gay. www.colombian.com.au/#/venues/bar/2
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Post by ozgringo on May 5, 2016 19:07:00 GMT -5
The Colombian is on Oxford St. Sydney's gay street. Like Haight Street, in San Francisco.
For those that have not been to Australia. We have very little anything that is "Latin". Less than 1% of the population are from Latin America of those 1% are mostly Brazilians and Chilean. There are only around 20,000 Colombian born people living in Australia.
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Post by billyb on May 5, 2016 19:30:02 GMT -5
Actually the Haight is the old hippy hood in SF, you are probably referring to the Castro, which is gay central.
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Post by bickmed on May 6, 2016 8:08:53 GMT -5
They sell Colombian beer in Brisbane at a latin bar as well (Aguilla). There is a strong Latin community, and we even went to a Colombian night in a bar near queen street mall. I ran into the ex manager of one of the BBC bars (ZonaRosa) in Bogota who had moved to Australia - small world.
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