SoCal Bondi Take-Over

Rebecca Varidel
13th Sep 2016

What do you get when you combine two of our favourite SYDNEY bars? We took our party frocks to BONDI BEACH to find out. All in the name of research mind you. (Someone has to do it. Right?)

Popular north side venue, SoCal headed over the bridge to Bondi in a take-over of its renowned sister Apple Jack restaurant Bondi Hardware to create

SoCal Bondi Hardware!

Bringing SoCal’s range of food and drinks to this beachside favourite, SoCal Bondi Hardware features Mexican, North American and seafood Cali-inspired share plates, tacos, quesadillas and ceviche, all washed down with copious amounts of tequila and margaritas! Daily specials featured throughout all of this month are:

Daily specials will feature throughout the month including:

Mezcal Mondays - Mezcal Margies, Mezcal Negroni's, Mezcal Old Fashioneds for $12

Taco Tuesdays - $4 taco's

Wing Wednesdays - $1 Wings

Tequila Thursdays - Tequila everything! Tequila infused specials: dishes, drinks & desserts!

Cali Shack on Fridays from 3pm – Coronas, Pacifico's, Margies and Tommy's

Cali Shack on Saturdays from midday - 'Wine Weekenders' - $35 wine by the bottle, rose, white & red

Siesta Sundays - $8 Bloody Marys & Bloody Marias & $30 Rose' Sangria Carafes

Last Friday night's party efforts started with the must have So-Cal drink what is known here as the Lambda Largarita. Reseach tells us elsewhere it can be called a Mexican Bulldog. Take a classic Margerita and tip the Corinita in it upside down for your cocktail and beer fix combined. When you want more party twist the bottle to release more beer into your cup. Easy!

For those that want the cocktail straight up the So-Cal Bondi go-to is the Margerita. Both Classic and Tommy's are on offer. We can knock down either but recommend the smooth sip of agave in the Tommy's cocktail recipe.

On other tables there were loads of corn chips heading out from the kitchen. We munched our way through the menu to set up our list of tips for you.

Best of the beautiful snacks are the sweet and savoury doughnuts, the luscious sweet fried doughnut rolled in sugar served with a luscious apricot puree. The surprise is the savoury filling: spicy hot mince. What a combo! Beer either straight up or in the Margerita cup combo sooth the soul with this one.

Fish tacos from the top box are sensational and perfect with the Margeritas or Lambda Largarita, for those that want to booze and food match.

Take Peking Duck and wrap it Mexican style and you have our must have dish for those that are hungry.

But there is so much more...

Finish or start with something sweet. Espresso Martinis and the fluffiest delish churros and chocolate. Birthdays or any reason to party with the oh so cool Southern California meets Bondi Beach vibe. We loved the way the gathering across the room started the party with the birthday cake and candles before they got on to more serious drinking.

Then we watched the tinder date across the way. How did that girl not get the message the guy was not so interested? It was a different story at the table next to us that got all loved up over the yummy snacks and scrummy cocktails. Hard not to we suppose. So many SoCal Hardware good things to eat and drink.

It's so hard to choose. It could be easy to move a bed into Bondi Hardware for the rest of the month and make it home to try out every one of the Southern Californian daily positions.