Balcony Bar Elite Event

A fun first Unilocal event! Amazing cocktails and a great bunch of friendly people. Was great to discover a cute new venue close to everything.

And another great Elite night!
The experience started from outside of the bar with the lovely Auckland CM helping us to check-​in to get one free drink (on top of the 2 we already got).
As we were allowed to invite +2s the bar became very busy but it was great to see so many people with a Unilocal badge, just happy to be there.
Big crush for the Flora Dora cocktail. Hard to assess the food quality because I only had nachos and pizzas — they were both average.
Balcony bar is definitely a great spot in the city for after-​work drinks — I will be back soon!

I’d actually been meaning to check out Balcony Bar for awhile now. It kept popping up in my searches for event spaces, but I didn’t know anything about it. Finally, I had a chance to check it out with some fellow Unilocalers.
And I’m glad I did. Balcony Bar is a great small sized venue, and there was obviously a great crowd with Unilocal being involved; however I don’t think Balcony Bar was the best venue for that amount of crowd.
I can picture hanging out in BB with some friends and I can picture BB as a good date venue — however it just didn’t work for me as a mid-​sized event space. After waiting at the back of the bar crowd for 15 minutes without any movement, I gave up and went next door to Small Bar with a couple of other Unilocalers. Maybe if the upstairs bar at BB had opened up, or maybe if they had prepped some large batch cocktails in advance, the night would have been more efficient.
It was great to meet some new faces and some of the other visiting CMs and of course catching up with all of those familiar faces. Overall a good night, but impatient me didn’t wind up spending much time at BB.

I liked this venue, a bar that made me come into the cbd. An elite gig that let me lock in a plus 2. Drinks were hard to get but were worth the wait.
Suffice it to say this is an intimate venue that I can imagine going to for a few after work drinks to debrief after shit week.
As far as elite events go. Too crowded. Door people too rude. Cut off times for end of drinks, far too strict.
Few times I’ve been around this track and I’m not just gonna holla like that.
Please don’t blink your eyelids at me like I am asking a ridiculous question about plus 1s who are arriving late.
Minus 2 points for the Unilocal door bitches. Sorry Unilocal,I love you but please show more respect for your patrons.
Venue was very accommodating though even though a few of us were well over due to leave after the gig. We probably pumped an extra $ 100 into the kitty after the event between us.

Thanks Unilocal!Great time last night with my +1. Favourite drink Flora Dora=we ordered more after we exhausted our free ones.
It was a little packed inside especially in the beginning when everyone had tix to use. Not sure why the upstairs bar wasn’t used? However, those bartenders were working overtime! Atmosphere loud but didn’t have a hard time getting to know other elites. Great music btw, I was dancing my little bootie :)
Not sure if the pizza and guacamole were made in house?
Balcony bar itself felt a little «used» if that’s the right word? Kinda like hanging out in your college friends apartment. Low Squishy sofas and plastic lawn chairs on the balcony. Would have loved to have had some fairy lights out there as it was quite dark.
All in all can’t wait to see everyone at the next get together

I hadn’t heard of or been to this bar before. The balcony of the name was a bit of fun — barely big enough to warrant the name, and the bar is certainly tiny, especially with a bunch of Elites with thirsts and appetites!
The staff did sterling service on the night cracking out cocktails to order at a great pace, and the chef was doing his best to keep a steady supply of pizzas that hungry Unilocalers were disappearing fast.
The event was a little too crowded for me, but hey, that’s OK, I’m a crusty oldie anyhow :-) Not many pizzas made it to our part of the bar, regrettably, but all good considering.

Unilocal Elite & their people are outgoing, helpful, friendly, & justly critical. I found myself hanging on people’s words as they detailed yummy or intriguing experiences that further stretched my must-​do bucket list. Fun event, great vibe. Many thanks for organizing & offering these kinds of cool get togethers!
I admit the place was smaller than expected, the music didn’t quite fit the ambiance (a little too energetic for a kickback café-​looking bar), & the balcony was a bit of a let down. The quality of people really made this event.
The nibbles were a nice touch despite how piping hot they were, but it just shows they were working their butt off in the back to get food cranking. Good idea to have city managers serve as a cool way to get them floating & introduced to a lot of people. Such a nice community!
I’d return to this bar for a relaxed, more intimate catch up with a friend or two over a glass of wine. The cocktails were a bit too sugary for me (says the whiskey, red wine, & dark beer girl) so I would stick to the basics. My girlfriends who like their cocktails to not taste like liquor at all would enjoy this place most.

Nice one, Unilocal.A good old-​fashioned booze tasting in a small bar. You can’t go wrong with that sort of Elite event.
The cocktails made with West Winds Gin, 666 Pure Tasmanian Vodka, and Cargo Cult Spiced Rum were all great examples of tasty drinks made from Australian-​based spirits. Drink tickets meant we could try each of them; the lovely ladies who left behind their unused tickets meant we could try some of them again.
The food, bites from Balcony’s bar menu, was OK, but I unwisely positioned myself too from the kitchen to get much before the crowd descended.
It was a clever move having the Community Managers from the other Aussie capitals here, and gamifying introduction to them. Keepsnaps Live Instagram Printer was a fun way to make a little take-​home memento too.
The only downside for me was that it was a bit crowded. Balcony Bar isn’t spacious, and it resulted in some sizable queues for cocktails. Given my extra drink tickets, though, that probably wasn’t a bad thing.

First ever Unilocal elite event and I had a great time.
The drinks on offer were great and the bar was very cool, if a little bit small for the number of people that attended.
The bar staff and guys from Unilocal were all friendly and up for a chat.
Highlight for me was risking my life each time I traversed the stairs. Those things were so steep and narrow they were basically a ladder.
Cool idea to make meeting the Unilocal stuff a game, even if we did cheat and used LinkedIn (it failed we got one wrong).
My only real criticism was the food was a bit sparse and barely made it past the first floor before the plates were empty.
Aside from that, everything else (drinks, place, people) was great. I’d come back to the bar again for sure.

I’d never heard of this little bar before until we turned up for the event. There was a line out the door which was rather surprising as I thought it would have been a bit more intimate and not so crowded event. But we waited and chatted and waited some more.
Finally got in and realised that there’s a small tunnel leading to the back of the room which the bar mainly took up. It was a bit of a gauntlet run to get to the other side. Lots of excuse me, ops sorry and oh hullo bumps into people.
The 3 drinks on offer were all very different and just as divine. Although the spiced rum was probably my favourite and I would happily have an armed escort to score more!
We ventured up the stairs of doom (they were tiny and there wasn’t much room for people coming down or going up to pass each other!!) — where upstairs was another bar that wasn’t being used as it was where the instagram pics were being printed out. So if you took your own photo and posted on istagram you could collect up the SSoD — I’ve renamed the stairs… SSoD Steep Stairs of Doom. You see, they should rename the bar. Because I went looking for the balcony. And blink and you’ll miss it. It was tiny. But it did give us a break from the crowds to fill in our competition forms.
Lovely talking to new Unilocalers and getting a cuddle pile from the old.
Thanks for a lovely Tuesday night out Unilocal

Music pumping, people laughing, cocktails flowing … Who could ask for more. What a fantastic little bar in the middle of the CBD of Sydney. A stroll from Wynyard. Walking back up the short incline may not be so easy!
The atmosphere is totally alive and the bar staff are so friendly.
Yes it is an Elite Event for Unilocalers and everyone is matching profiles with actual people while throwing back delicious cocktails.
Very high octane here, no water added…
I have had a wow of a night… nice to meet and greet the managers from interstate!
The cocktails are original and well laced. I don’t think I have tried the three specials tonight before… but they all went down well even if I did stagger down the stairs as I left.
Vodka, gin and brandy, three of my very good friends.
Benches on which to lean and small tables & chairs upstairs and down. An outdoor area for the nicotine dependants. Everyone is catered for. C u there…