MELBOURNE | You might remember Mamao, a casual Thai restaurant that I posted about earlier this year. It’s popular with students and Thai expats for it’s authentic casual street-food dishes and affordable prices. The team have recently opened a new spot, Mamao Club, which I recently visited for What’s On Melbourne
Mamao Club is hidden up an unassuming set of stairs on the second floor of the same building that houses perennial favourite, cocktail bar Madame Brussels. It takes the late night bar elements of Mamao and ramps them up in a low lit space with colourful lights. There’s a bar and booths down one end, and tables facing a live music and DJ stage on the other end. It’s very much a bar/club rather than a restaurant, the kind that evokes late night adventures in Bangkok.
I visited as the night was starting, and things were just starting to get busier as I left. From what I’ve heard, the place is heaving and has quite the party vibe later on in the night.
Open until the wee hours of the morning, Mamao Club is the kind of place that’s perfect when you’re out on the town and are at the point of the night when some food is in order. There’s beer towers, tropical cocktail jugs, and more with a focus on the celebratory, party side of things, and a food menu of keenly priced snacky things designed to go well with drinks.
Think things like deep fried barramundi with fish sauce, rice porridge with seafood, spicy fried pork belly salad, salted duck egg fried calamari, and grilled meat and veg skewers. All great options to keep you fuelled for the night.
Mamao Club
2F, 59 Bourke Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
Australia
Telephone: 0411 963 561
E-mail: n/a
Website
Open
Mon – Thu: 9:00pm to 2:00am
Fri – Sat: 6:00pm to 3:00am