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  • People sitting on couches around a table that holds beer bottles and other drinks in glasses.
  • Two hands holding chopsticks, reaching in to select dim sum from two small bamboo steamer baskets on a table.

Golden Monkey

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  • Bar

Downstairs from East China Trading Company, through velvet curtains, lies the romance, mystery and decadence of the Golden Monkey.

A forbidden bar and nightspot paying tribute to 1920s Shanghai, Golden Monkey provides a hedonistic escape for those wanting to party in style.

Drinks include refreshing cocktails and house-made specialty shots. Shared punches are served in everything from traditional Chinese steamboats to vintage metal trunks.

Steamed dumplings and Chinese bao are available all night long. Favourites come fresh, hot and steaming to your table, in big bamboo baskets.

Support local musicians and performers with live R&B, soul and pop every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and DJs spinning all genres and eras feature on other nights.

Golden Monkey caters for the solo adventurist, small groups out celebrating, and functions and events for up to 200 guests.

Hours

Day Times
Monday
  • Closed
Tuesday
  • Closed
Wednesday
  • 6pm - 1am 6pm - 1am
Thursday
  • 6pm - 1am 6pm - 1am
Friday
  • 6pm - 2am 6pm - 2am
Saturday
  • 6pm - 1am 6pm - 1am
Sunday
  • Closed

Location

Golden Monkey
Hardware Ln
Melbourne 3000

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Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 9602 2055
  • email address: down@goldenmonkey.com.au
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The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wadawurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin have to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We are committed to our reconciliation journey, because at its heart, reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, for the benefit of all Victorians.

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