Donny’s Bar is the latest addition to the growing culinary set, but chalk it off as just another small bar riding the northern beaches foodie wave and you’d be doing this quiet achiever a huge injustice.
Tucked away on a sliver of Market Lane — one of the few places where you can rub shoulders with a real Manly-ite — Donny’s works industrial warehouse chic to the full: think exposed brick walls, glass bottle light fittings and a bar clad with reclaimed train sleepers...
Concrete Playground.
Donny’s Bar co-owner Matt Clifton creates a space that both reflects his international adventures and defines what he calls home.
Taking inspiration from the New York loft-style bars he frequented while spending the last few years in Manhattan, Clifton’s bar in Manly, NSW, turns the local beachside vernacular on its head.
Vogue.
WATCH out Sydney, the beachside suburb of Manly is catching on to your small bar success.
What the beachside suburb has been lacking in chic drinking holes until now, places like Donny's Bar are quickly making up for.
And Market Lane has managed to squeeze in quite possibly the coolest wine bar the north side of Sydney has seen yet.
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Donny’s Bar is the latest venue to open in Manly on Sydney’s northern beaches, the seaside suburb that is fast becoming a hospitality hotspot, with Miss Chu, Criniti’s and most recently Merivale venue Papi Chulo opening its doors there.
Clifton told Hospitality the pair have worked in many venues over the years, yet had always dreamed of opening a business they could call their own – and Manly proved the perfect location.
Hospitality magazine
Australian Interior Design Awards
Conjuring up images of a back alley in Chinatown, Donny's Bar is a refreshing change to Manly and the bar scene there.
The design resolution captures a careful balancing of the rustic versus the refined - where the pared back urban space boasts a real attention to detail
