World Bar... definitely not the world's best bar

On Easter Thursday a few friends and myself headed into the Cross for a big night out as none of us had to work the next day. Problem was the rest of Sydney had the same idea and we didn't get in until after midnight so the choices of where we could actually go were quite limited.

We managed to eventually find a queue that wasn't too long which happened to be for World Bar, a club set in a beautiful Victorian-era building on Bayswater Road. Finally we made it to the front of the queue where we eventually subjected to an interrogation of Guantanamo proportions. One of my friends, a girl who look identical to her licence photo, was stared at continuously, told to recite her licence details, have it scanned with a blue light, made to sign a notepad to match the signature until about 15 minutes later he finally let us in. All that aside it seemed alright from there on... entry was cheap ($10) and once inside there was some good indie DJ's pumping out some good tunes. But then the worst part of the night came...

We decided to head up to the top level where there was a good dancefloor and booths surrounding it where you could just chill but then we attempted to go to the bar. Somehow someone thought it was a great idea to only have one freaking person on the bar on EASTER THURSDAY - which I would imagine being one of the busiest nights of the year? 45 minutes later I finally got my beer and my friends got their $17 teapots which tasted pretty good but you only got a few shot glasses out of them which, even for the Cross, could hardly justify the cost.

Noticing that the line was not easing and that our sobriety would remain in this place having to wait so freaking long for our drinks, we decided to call it a night which was pretty disappointing because there aren't too many Fridays I do manage to get off.

I reckon this place has the potential to be alright but the staffing levels were SHOCKING and I'd question myself before going there again.

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