Arcadia

We came for drinks and it’s such a cute spot, lots of seating and perfect ambient lighting. Bartenders are nice. Great date spot or spot for friends. Love it here!

A not so hidden gem in Redfern! A short walk from the station, Arcadia is your place to go if you like jazzy music, dim lighting and good cocktails, a great spot for dates. Didn't get to try their food, but definitely will come back, as it's a place with a lot of personality. Also, their beer offering on tap is pretty solid!

Nice vibrant bar, mixed crowd. It comes with a small outdoor beer garden. Decorated with fairy lights, old school sounds and bar staff mixing drinks - it's an ideal place to drink & chill. Ordered the Charlie Chaplin drink (I think that's what it was called) it was refreshingly sweet

This bar was a random find and it's easy to say that my friends and I are absolutely obsessed with this place. The atmosphere, the service, the music, the drinks? Perfection! Been nearly two weeks since we visited and haven't stopped talking about it. Can't wait to go back!

This is a lovely bar in Redfern just a few mins from the Redfern station. It’s lit beautifully in the night and I’m sure every passerby wants to go in. I’ve been here a few times but never to the area at the back nor have I had food. That’s what I’ll go the next time I go there. The staff are really friendly and great at making cocktails. They handle the multitude of people wanting drinks with a breeze. I’d recommend this to anyone who’d like a trendy bar

***UPDATED REVIEW*** We tried the antipasto plate and it did not disappoint! This place has such fun vibes. And the fairy lights around the venue creates such a lovely ambience. They have a good selection of wine. I didn’t try any of their cocktails but the cocktail list looks pretty good. We tried their toasted sandwiches and both flavours were epic. I highly recommend trying the halloumi pesto flavoured toastie, as well as the pizza flavoured toastie.

Great inexpensive drinks with lots of alcohol in the cocktails + amazing sandwiches! The staff there is also spectacular and super fun!

Beautifully lit with abundant soft warm fairy lights 🧚‍♀️💡fun friendly bar staff, great cocktails, superb courtyard and delicious snacks. Perfect for a fist date 💕 Real question is why haven’t ya been here already 🤷🏻

Wow, so many great bars in such a small area. This has to be the inner city of Sydney (or Melbourne, but no, it is Sydney). This is one of those bars, and even though they didn't have a great range of beers, they still have a decent enough selection to make this place worthwhile. I guess it is one of those places that simply have that atmosphere about it that gives it a real electric feel. Yep, this place is actually pretty awesome, and certainly a place I'd have not hesitation in returning to.

Arcadian liquor was one of my best discoveries of late. I lived in Redfern for a few months before I even realised it existed! It is a very cool, hip small bar that has a great atmosphere! The prices are standard and they offer a restricted food menu (mostly toasted sandwhiches). The walls are full of eclectic nick nacks which compliment the kitchen, homely feel of the place. It can get a little loud inside but normal conversations can still be heard without yelling. The bathrooms are up a pretty steep set of stairs, so not great for the disabled. But at the top of the stairs there is a giant concrete penis. So it's well worth yhe climb!

Arcadia opened last Friday, and it's already apparent that these guys are pros. Pros with beards. One is quiet, one of them never stops talking. He used to run The Old Fitz in Woolloomooloo. After several months of hammering shit together and an injury or two, these two fellas have found their Arcadia, and joined the Sydney small bar scene. Arcadia is right near that really ugly sculpture on the corner of Redfern & Regent. When you walk in, the light is warm (maybe a little too bright?) and the place is decked out delightfully: exposed bricks, rustic metal chairs, stunning glass mirrors (from Rozelle markets), and a back patio area full of well tended plants. It's a gorgeous garden space, and yes, this does provide a spot for smokers. The bar itself is large & wooden), with the bar stools just a tiny bit too low. Like The Dock nearby, this is a place where it's fine to linger at the bar all night, chatting with the owners. It's a spacious place, and we spotted an upstairs - though didn't venture up there on this visit. There are 2 beers on tap (Coopers & a crisp German Larger of some description), and right now they've printed up their wine list, with the cocktail menu still in the works. Actually that's quite good because you can ask the guys for classic cocktails & they're happy to oblige (at approx $12, depending on what you order). The Old Fashioneds were excellent, and mixed with precision & humour. You can order food from Wah Fung (across the road) and eat it in the bar, and they'd probably let you bring in a Vietnamese roll from that little place nearby. It's pretty laid back. All in all, this place is excellent, and will most likely get rather busy on weekends. I almost wanted to give it a bad review just so we can keep it to ourselves.

So when a catch up for coffee turned into a cocktail and wine instead, I was ever so glad my friend (a Redfern local) brought me here!! Great vibe, good selection of drinks - and yes they have cocktails, full food menu or drink accompaniments - the antipasto platter was delish, I even tried artichoke and liked it...... Oh and they have great pickled onions in the platter - really great!! I will definitely be back!

Lovely staff, exquisite service. Delicious old fashioned, they even let me try the beers! Will return

Packed on a Friday after work but we managed to get bar seats. Friend tried to swarm a table but someone else was faster! Good beer and wine list as well as cocktails but when I saw how small the glasses were for cocktails I thought better to get beer and wine. Minimum of $10 but you can start a tab on a card.

Well well well. Wellity wellity wellity. Look what snuck up in Redfern that I only got to the other night, but which the locals are all over and have been for a while? Arcadia is urrthang you want from a small suburban bar. Mega-friendly staff who like laughing with punters almost as much as they like slinging those selfsame punters tons of booze. Bar inside, schweet outdoor covered patio bit out back, and a huge plaster penis outside the bathrooms upstairs. Seriously, whatever giant that thing fell off was *packing*, man. Sure it kind of looks a bit weird and mummified, but hey, whatchu gonna do. Speaking of bathrooms - the unmarked brown door out the back leads to the find of the evening: a sensationally large, clean, well-appointed gourmet dunny that has ruined all other bathrooms for me forever. This is the toilet Elvis died on. It's better than my bathroom at home. I wouldn't have left, only people would have wondered what I was doing in there.

This place has a great atmosphere and is surprisingly cheap. I've never had a bad night here. Staff are friendly, drinks and cocktails are well made! Great place for a few mates. It's small, so it can get crowded, but usually there's enough room to find a seat somewhere!

A great bar for locals. Nice bartender. Good house red. Comfy and suitable for a long chat.

I don't often come to this part of town but I'm glad I did and I'm glad I was shown Arcadia Liquors. A very chill little bar that is perfect to just drop in to for a bear or a wine. It's very kitschy with amazing tapestries in the bathroom and fairy lights all through the outdoor courtyard, which I feel would be a great place to sit on a summer afternoon. It's a shame they don't do substantial food cause they could have you there all night, but the toasties and the antipasto platters are enough to keep you going until you need something a little more for dinner. This place has a great vibe, really friendly staff who will chew your ear off if you let them and relaxing booths in the corner to really sink in to and enjoy your wine!

This is a nice place to grab a drink. It has a nice beer garden out the back and warm atmosphere inside. The staff are friendly and the food and drinks, while not exactly cheap, won't break the bank. This place is pretty hipster, but even if that's not your scene you won't feel out of place.

Great place! Good drinks, good service, good music. Pretty cool that you can bring your own food too as there are lots of good takeaway spots nearby. Can be hard to get a table on a Friday night

I like a good swear word, when used appropriately. And today I say FUCK YEAH, ARCADIA. Had a killer night at Arcadia - this is the best kind of local bar. Friendly staff (my friend loves that all the male staff have hipster beards), excellent beer on tap, lots of wine choice, room to move, awesome tunes, and most importantly, the crowd is really chilled and friendly (that's code for 'the poser douchebags haven't found it yet, so please don't tell them'). Bonus points for the fact we could order chinese takeaway from Wah Fung across the street and have it delivered to the bar. Double bonus points (are you keeping score?) for the rad tunes later in the night that got everyone up dancing. This is definitely a new local favourite, so please don't tell people about it and ruin it! Thanks.

Great place to drop in to have a beer or wine in Redfern. Awesome eclectic looking interior and a cool crowd.

Great small bar in Redfern. Look for it next to the Vietnamese bakery. Pints of local beer and a good vibe. You can even get take-out Chinese ordered from across the road and bring it in!