How to get into new ‘secret’ Barangaroo bar D.L.M - The Department of Legend & Myth

Sydney has a hidden new bar — and it won’t be kept a secret for long. We reveal the city’s latest attraction.

Sydneysiders love to hear a secret, but they also love to keep them. Some of the city’s most popular bars are those hidden behind butcher shops or wedged between rooftops on Sydney’s skyline.

Now there is a new hidden bar to add to the pile that’s drawing crowds in troves. Understandably, it won’t stay a secret for long.

The bar, which has popped up in Barangaroo, appropriately called D. L. M – The Department of Legend & Myth.

The bar is concealed behind the bureaucratic frontage on the corner of Exchange place and like the name suggests, it combines magic and live music with cocktails.

The food menu is a collaboration with popular Japanese burger venue, Ume Burger, whose owner had an assault conviction against his girlfriend overturned on appeal last year.

Jennifer Sacks and Jamie Wise pictured with cocktails at the entrance to D. L. M pop up bar Barangaroo. Picture: Damian Shaw

Mixologist Denis Gambino pictured with cocktails at the D. L. M pop up bar Barangaroo. Picture: Damian Shaw

The menu includes fried chicken, chips, onion rings and house-made kimchi and pickles.

The bar is open Thursday to Sunday but set to disappear at the end of the month.

Jennifer Sacks and Jamie Wise pictured with cocktails at the D. L. M pop up bar Barangaroo. Picture: Damian Shaw

The outside of Newtown bar Earls Juke Joint. Picture: Instagram

The new look of The Rover at Surry Hills. Picture: Instagram

If that happens, there are still a host of secret venues to visit.

Earl’s Juke Joint in Newtown has kept the frontage of the butcher Betta Meats, which it took over in 2013.

But behind the facade is a bar inspired by the juke joints of the Deep South in America and guarantees a good time.

Earlier this year Surry Hills’ iconic Irish bar The Wild Rover underwent a makeover and was rebranded as The Rover.

Owned by the Liquor and Larder group (who also run the popular Bistecca and The Gidley) the bar is still famously hidden from the street and the door handle is hard to find.

Continue heading south of the city to Caringbah and you will find – hiding behind a fridge door in a pizza restaurant – American sports Bar Huxley’s.

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