Rooftop bar and garden could be coming to Fairfield RSL Club
A mid-western themed rooftop bar, restaurant and garden inspired by the desert that would accommodate 150 people could be built at Western Sydney RSL Club, a development application reveals.
A rooftop bar and restaurant that would accommodate 150 people could be built at Fairfield RSL Club, a development application reveals.
The bar and restaurant would have a mid-western theme, tying together barbecued meat, rare tequilas and a garden inspired by the desert.
“Everybody seems to be doing rooftop bars and putting a couple of plants and thinking that’s a rooftop bar and garden. I wanted to do something completely different,” Anthony Sobb said, the chief executive of Fairfield RSL Club.
“It’s called Red Rock because it’s named after a desert in Nevada. The desert can have beautiful plants.”
Mr Sobb has been chief executive of Fairfield RSL since he joined the club in 2001. Under his direction, the club has bolstered its restaurant and bar offerings.
Red Rock would replace about 20 parking spots on the roof of the level three car park. The club contends it has at least 108 parking spaces free during its busiest hours.
This would give it a floor space of 453 square metres, planning documents said, and offer an outdoor garden under the blanket of the uninterrupted sky.
A hidden door would give the impression the bar and restaurant is the club’s best kept secret, Mr Sobb said. An elevator would be built to transfer patrons in the know.
The cost of building the bar would be about $1.51 million, the development application said, though Mr Sobb contends the club will be investing much more.
He aims to have it ready for business by December this year.
The development application is being publicly exhibited until February 21. It lists Fairfield City Council as the consent authority.
To comment online, visit Council’s website www.fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au/DAs-on-exhibit and quote application number 639.1/2018.
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