The 4 Best Bars to enjoy drinks in Wrest Point Tasmania 1 Likes

Visiting Wrest Point Tasmania you can enjoy to the extreme here at the Hobart entertainment with nightly live music and sparkling events to thrill you. With the best of bars to enjoy drinks or cocktail you can rock at whatever you feel like. Here are the 4 best bars to enjoy.

1. Oynx Bar

Located in the centre of Wrest Point Tasmania, with fabulous water views, this bar offers a meeting place with style. Whether you’re in a ball gown or keen to sit back with beer, bar food and your favourite AFL team on the mega screen, this bar is perfect for you.

With full Tatts Bet service area and a bar food menu starting from $8.50, you can enjoy Oynx sports bar. Oynx bar is open from 11am Monday to Friday, and 10am Saturday and Sunday until late. Bar menu available from 2pm to 9pm daily.

2. Birdcage Bar

Birdcage bar is the oldest bar at Wrestpoint operating since 1973 and is well known for its retro bar brims with warmth and live music that goes every night of the week. You will find list of premium cocktails that you can enjoy with long session of chatting with others till late night.

Found just inside the door of Wrest Point Tasmania, the intriguing design will surely lure you in. You’ll find a wonderful hand-painted mural by iconic artists Charles Billich which you will seem stuck admiring. This bar is open daily from 5pm until late. Remember only 18 years and above age can enter here.

Each night the Birdcage has a 'double happy hour' starting from 6pm to 7pm and 9pm to 10pm offering $13.50 Cocktails and $1 off on all other drinks. Also enjoy Jazz In The Birdcage Bar all free and live From 8.30pm.

On Wednesdays you will find one of Tasmania’s jazz aficionado’s including Black Coffee, Dance in a Shoebox, Billy and Aaron, Sabine Bester, Ally Rae Patmore Trio, Fred Bradshaw Trio for $14 each

·The Sidecar includes Remy Martin VSOP, Cointreau shaken & double strained with lemon juice into a champagne saucer. Finished with lemon ring in a half sugar rimmed glass

·Mary Pickford with White Bacardi rum & pineapple juice shaken with maraschino syrup & grenadine. Strained into a champagne saucer

·Colony Cocktail with Gordons Gin is combined with fresh pink grapefruit juice & maraschino syrup. Spiked with a Cherry Brandy chaperone. Shaken & strained into a champagne saucer, garnished with grapefruit rind

·Mint Julep with Makers Mark Bourbon, fresh mint & sugar syrup are shaken & double strained into a champagne saucer & finished with a sprig of mint

3. Casino bar

Casino bar is well known for their favourite spirit or chilled Tasmanian beer. With all the entertainment for you to soak up the theatre of the gaming room, keep an eye on the sports action, and feel your heart beat to Wrest Point Tasmania’s rhythm. You’ll be spoilt for live sporting action across plasma screens in the lounge area. Drink choices here range from local and imported beers to wine, spirits and cocktails as you enjoy your favourite table games. Casino Bar drink menu offers your best choices.

4. Broadwalk bar

At Broadwalk bar it is not only the drinks but awesome snacks to relish. Whether you’re looking for a light snack or perhaps a chilled beer and potato chips you can have this all at boardwalk venue which is open from 9am to 3am.

Offering a full bar and delicious array of sandwiches, cakes and sweets, Boardwalk Snacks is the perfect spot to pick up your morning coffee or stop by for a quick bite. You’ll be impressed with the speed and friendliness of the staff at this Hobart bar and snack venue. You can enjoy the outdoor deck and fabulous River Derwent views across to the Tasman Bridge. Close to the gaming floor, you’re not far from the action when choosing from this snack style menu. Boardwalk Bar Beverage Menu to enjoy anytime between 9 am to 3 am so it is just wonderful to drop here any time you wish to.

Now head to Wrest point and feel the breeze of this historic place which was once a grand hotel and sold to Australia’s oldest hotel chains the Federal hotels in World War II. In the 1960s, The Federal Group attempted to secure Australia's first casino license to attract more tourists to Tasmania's which is well known for its natural scenery and beauty. John Haddad, one of the company's executives at the time, was assigned the role of getting a casino license which was soon acquired with the help of the state officials. The development of the casino included the construction of the 17-storey hotel tower, with a revolving restaurant, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, a landmark that is nationally identified with Hobart, and the 64-metre octagonal tower remains the city's tallest building.

After the centre's opening in 1973 the casino provided a catalyst for the nation's casino industry, with 12 additional casinos opening across the country. This included a second Federal Group casino in Tasmania, the Country Club Casino, which opened in Launceston in 1982.

The building has been extended in recent years, including the conference centre which was opened in 1984, and the boardwalk in 1996. In 2015 a 70 million dollar investment was announced, bringing five new dining outlets and more bars, a private VIP gaming room and a complete new contemporary feel across the entire casino.