It will certainly include a dancing flooring, video games, karaoke areas and heaps of Japanese treats, whisky and purpose. Here’s what else remains in shop.
A multi-level 500-person capability izakaya with a bar, dancing flooring, video games, karaoke areas and heaps of Japanese treats, spirits and purpose. That’s what’s being guaranteed by Sydney- based friendliness team Solotel when it opens up Goros in Fortitude Valley very early following year.
Taking over the old Little Valley properties on Warner Street, Goros will certainly make use of the area’s previous street-side dining-room and second-level bar location, however additionally have a 3rd degree for karaoke and feature areas.
It’s not a brand-new principle for Solotel, with the initial Goros opening in Surry Hills in Sydney in 2014. It was motivated by now-CEO Elliot Solomon’s earlier journeys to Tokyo, where he uncovered the city’s renowned food roads, which are usually loaded around the city’s train terminals.
“They have all these food alleys either underneath or just behind the train tracks,” Solomon states.
“All these shops. There might be yakitori, fried chicken and there will usually be an izakaya as well.
“So while I’d say the concept is based on an izakaya or Japanese pub, the experience is more like what it’s like walking down one of those streets. That’s how we tried to imagine it.”
Goros Sydney is created as an area of exploration, with various experiences concealed in various components of the place.
Brisbane will certainly coincide, Solomon states, however Solotel’s internal layout group is working together with Brisbane- based KP Architects (The Greek Club, Sandstone Point Hotel, Manly Harbour Boat Club to name a few) to lean right into the Warner Street properties’ fine-looking bones.
“A lot of the design language will be similar to Sydney, which is inspired by 1980s and ’90s Japan, with plenty of timber and warm colours,” he states.
“But the actual architecture of the building is really, really different to Sydney. Sydney is beautiful, but you’re not really aware of the building itself, whereas Brisbane is this nice warehouse space, with polished concrete and exposed beams that will help add character to the different spaces.
I love Brisbane … It’s so optimistic. There’s a lot of excitement about the future and that’s really intoxicating.”
Solotel CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Elliot Solomon
“And there’s also an outdoor space with the laneway, and also it’s a different climate in Brisbane, so it’s Goros but tweaked for a local context.”
The food menu will certainly resemble Sydney’s, which includes treats such as tuna wonton tacos and crunchy poultry wings, teriyaki poultry and spicy pork skewers, a lot of gyoza such as pork and chive pot sticker labels and cheeseburger gyoza, and keys such as pork katsu curry and miso barramundi.
For beverages, there will certainly be traditional and trademark alcoholic drinks, purpose banger bombs and highballs, plus a clutch of beers and red wines. The back bar will certainly concentrate on purpose and Japanese whisky.
Goros notes a restored concentrate on Brisbane by Solotel, which has Riverbar and Kitchen in the CBD. It formerly run Aria Brisbane up until the great restaurant’s closure in 2019.
“This will be the second venue and it’s actually a pretty close walk between the two,” Solomon states. “But if you have two, you might as well have five, just because of all the travel and everything coming from Sydney to Brisbane. If we can get a bit more mass, so to speak, we can have an office there.
“And on a personal level, I love Brisbane. I’m always happy to be there, and I think the whole team feels that way.
“It’s so optimistic. There’s a lot of excitement about the future and that’s really intoxicating.”
Goros Fortitude Valley will certainly open up at 6 Warner Street in very early 2025.
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Matt Shea is Food and Culture Editor atBrisbane Times He is a previous editor and editor-at-large at Broadsheet Brisbane, and has actually composed for Escape, Qantas Magazine, the Guardian, Jetstar Magazine and SilverKris, amongst numerous others.
