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Skip the modern Vander Bar, the kind of establishment that hosts "Friday Afternoon Fiestas" where you can purchase buckets of Corona and pitchers of margaritas, for the old-school Madison Club Lounge instead.
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Inside the faintly lit establishment, patrons occupy a long bar and cosy up in red leather booths while hard-working bartenders prepare pre-Prohibition inspired cocktails.
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In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
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