Where? - 831 Bourke St. Docklands

Price? - $23

Website? http://www.tap831.com.au/

Reviewers – Lee, Matt, Nikki & Tony

Normally I kick off a review with a little anecdote about how we discovered the week's pub in question, however I have no such story for TAP831 as I came across it almost completely by accident. I looked at our recent reviews and said to myself "Hm. We haven't been to the docklands in a while", so I opened up Google Maps, hovered over the docklands, searched for "pub" and hit enter. I tossed the places we had already been and the places that didn't do a parma and was left with one option that actually looked pretty decent ... TAP831.

I didn't quite know what to expect with TAP831, but it was on the docklands so I was expecting a lot of polished concrete. On the exterior I was on the money, but imagine my surprise to discover that the inside actually had a bit of soul. The exposed brickwork and odd arrangement of the toilets (check them out when you get there) leads me to believe that, rather than a concrete box, TAP831's building actually was something before being repurposed into a bar.