A Pegleg and a Captain’s Hook all in a Pyrmont Bar

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A Pegleg, A Hook, An eyepatch - All in one Bar Sydney Pegleg Barman Manuel shares his views on a unique hospitality experience Making his way by boat to a Sydney Pyrmont bar for a podcast Cullen sets out for a destination with a distinctively different flavor. Set in a brilliantly old part of Sydney where you can catch the breeze along with the latest rum that carries a good story. He his way by boat from Circular Quay is Sydney by boat on a hot tip heading for one of Sydney's most notable Pyrmont Bars. His adventure starts out when he interviews Manuel on the unique feel from one of Sydney's interesting bars with a distinctively seaside feel. Manuel starts out by saying “Our inspiration on hospitality is to make people feel welcome from the moment they arrive here.” So that's the part of our philosophy on the hospitality, which is about the experience that we gave to our guests. Cullen notes the kind of run and feel of an old ship here an old boat that's setting sail lead by at least one or two finer pirate beards if ever you’ve seen them Now I understand you've got a much longer name than Manuel. The full Spanish name is Jose Manuel Alvarez Gonzalez, or you can just call me Manuel. It's a bit of a stormy sort of day here in Sydney, and we are just looking out and seeing these ropes swinging in the wind, you know, as I walked through the bar, there is also lots of old memorabilia and seashells and it sort of got a bit of what I would call maybe a Tiki bar kind of a feeling. But it's not a Tiki bar is that right? Brown treasure chest Sydney Well we, we came with something like Collin and myself talking about it where we are at, perhaps as the predecessors of Tiki. Our conversation turns to the ideas of pirates and other people going to out into the Polynesian islands. Various sailors had also started to explore different parts of the world, which is of course in a way is where we are now a part of that explored world here in Pyrmont. Manuel mentions we both have beards, but Cullen feels Manuel's beard is somehow more pirate-like than most. Yeah. I can't cut it, and I haven't cut it since. We started building this ship, so it is part of the process. I take my character, beard and more along for the journey. They call me Capitan Manuel. I also like Juan Snow Do you want to tell us a little bit about the menu here? Because I've been sampling some of the Rums with Collin and I'm very impressed. What's the menu and the relationship, the menu with the whole look and feel of the bar. Well first let's go to your main spirits of focus, and that breaks out into Rum and Gin. So when we first opened, we had a cocktail menu divided by captain drinks, which back then, used to be Gin. So Gin was in that high-class period that it was given to the captain, and then you have Rum which was the drink of the crew. That's how it was divided out our earlier between captain and crew. Also, apart from all the delicious cocktails, we can provide some of the best Australian beers and Australian wines. We have a big emphasis on Australian made products. We are now a part of the neighborhood. The kind of venue where someone that lives around the area will go up to five times a week, so we don't want to alienate people by only doing cocktails or only doing beers. So we have a pretty open portfolio on the products we serve. It's an interesting mix of people you find here in Pyrmont. Apart from a lot of offices which are a lot of media-related business, it is now the gateway to many coworking spaces You also have the casino close by so on a Monday to Friday, you get a lot of office workers on their way home. Pegleg Pyrmont And a lot of people who work on the CBD and they live on Glebe, Newtown, and they pass by this area on a daily basis. And from time to time they want to stop here for a drink. And just I guess looking around,