: - ) ALL Jacoby's Tiki Bar (Sydney, Australia)

[saturn's child]

So last night I went to Jacoby's Tiki Bar in Sydney (specifically, Enmore); it's a couple of hours on the train from where I live in the Blue Mountains (which has quite a Twin Peaks vibe actually), but I happened to be visiting a friend in the same suburb.

I had a couple of requests to post pics, so here they are! & a brief write-up along the way. Unfortunately the Peaksy aspects are kinda limited; it may have been a different story when it opened a few years ago.



We arrived just after it opened & sat basically in the centre of the room, so these two pics are taken back-to-back:



The back wall:


Immediately to the right of the above image is a hall leading to the bathrooms, & it's the main drawcard (for Peaks fans at least).
It's a little odd going straight from the Tiki vibe into the red room, but the jarring aspect was also a little surreal, which was nice.
With flash:


& without, which is a nicer mood:


Also nice from the bathroom end coming back in:



The music was mainly '60s, leaning toward the pop spectrum; I hadn't seen my friend (a fellow art therapist) for a couple of years & she brought another friend so I was a little lost in conversation. I remember Remember (Walking in the Sand), He's a Rebel, & maybe another Phil Spector song or two. Let's Twist Again too. Actually, yeah, some great tunes!

(I'm running out of attachment room so will continue below)

 

[saturn's child]

The drinks menu was fairly standard cocktail fare (I think?), with only one Peaks-related option, which I of course went for (x2). They were damn fine, I must say:



When I was ordering drinks I noticed a couple of easter eggs squirrelled away behind the bar:

Don't know how visible it is, but that is a copy of The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper up next to the owl & 'Damn fine cherry pie' sign.

& that's about that! I asked the waitress about the Twin Peaks elements of the bar, but she didn't have much of an idea about any of it.

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Random bonus image; I explored the neighbouring suburb (Newtown) using a map of the Greek city of Syracuse while I was waiting for Jacoby's to open, starting at the Fountain of Arethusa (based on a dream I had the night before). Seemed like the surrealist thing to do, something I'd heard a few years back. Anyway, I came upon 'the Artemision' -- according to the map I was using -- which was this nice church with a "red door":

 

[baxter]

Looks awesome! Will check it out next time I'm in Sydney...

 

[Tulpa]

Yep. Great photos and writeup. Thanks so much for this, @saturn's child