Spleen Bar

What a find!! The staff are absolutely fantastic — from the security at the front to the kitchen staff bringing food out — everyone had a smile on their face and is very polite and attentive! The drinks were great, strong, and very well-priced! The food smelled amazing, but we had just had dinner, so didn’t get to taste it, but the prices were also very good! Absolutely loved the music — a great mix of 80’s and 90’s! Definitely coming back to check out the upstairs part and try some of that food!!

love the bar staff and drinks here - actual bar itself is amazing. I'd come here more often if it weren't for that one security guard (red head bearded guy) who has some kind of superiority complex and is always quite rude and unwelcoming. This isn't an isolated incident, happens almost all the time when he's working. There's another seccy who I remember being really good a while back, wonder what happened to them...

My initial experience was good, the bartender was polite enough to explain to me how I could buy a ticket for the comedy show, but soon after that a tall guy who was moving chairs around preparing for the show walked past me and in a rather aggressive tone told me to move aside as he was entering the edge of the bar. I said oops sorry! but he rolled his eyes at me as he shoved past me. I calmly asked him "is there a problem here?" I told him i was standing there as i was unable to get online to buy a ticket, i asked him if he could assist me, again in a very unpleasant manner he came up to me seeminly annoyed and basically told me to leave. His words were "we'll be right tonight"! In other words he wanted me to leave. I was astounded by his attitude, his disgraceful customer service gave me no option but to write this review. Watch out for the big man, with a very intimidating nature when visiting the only place open for entertainment in Bourke Street Melbourne on a long weekend Monday night Clearly not a very happy employee. I am a licencee myself and i run many comedy nights back in Sydney and let me say I have never ever treated a patron in such a manner...