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Bar Selecta

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Bar Selecta bar director Joey Tai (left) and co-owner Masaki Hisaike.
1 / 9Bar Selecta bar director Joey Tai (left) and co-owner Masaki Hisaike.Heart Media
The Sailor Moon gimlet mixes Midori, sakura and pineapple-yuzu bitters with gin.
2 / 9The Sailor Moon gimlet mixes Midori, sakura and pineapple-yuzu bitters with gin.Heart Media
The Moon Shadow cocktail: strawberry, red bean, toasty hojicha and mooncake gin by bar director Joey Tai. 
3 / 9The Moon Shadow cocktail: strawberry, red bean, toasty hojicha and mooncake gin by bar director Joey Tai. Heart Media
The Midnight Cowboy cocktail with vodka, Jamaican rum, coffee, orange, coconut and cardamom foam.
4 / 9The Midnight Cowboy cocktail with vodka, Jamaican rum, coffee, orange, coconut and cardamom foam.Supplied
Joey Tai and Masaki Hisaike have opened the bar with three friends.
5 / 9Joey Tai and Masaki Hisaike have opened the bar with three friends.Heart Media
Music shifts from pop to reggae, disco to jazz.
6 / 9Music shifts from pop to reggae, disco to jazz.Supplied
Cocktails at Bar Selecta incorporate Japanese ingredients.
7 / 9Cocktails at Bar Selecta incorporate Japanese ingredients.Supplied
The bar features top-quality audio equipment, from decks to speakers.
8 / 9The bar features top-quality audio equipment, from decks to speakers.Heart Media
Bar Selecta has just 10 seats, with an enormous catalogue of vinyl.
9 / 9Bar Selecta has just 10 seats, with an enormous catalogue of vinyl.Heart Media

Bar Selecta

Japanese$

A Tokyo-style listening bar in a suburban laneway.

Inspired by the pint-sized listening bars of Tokyo, this surprise of a laneway bunker has just 10 stools, though numbers can swell across the courtyard and private room. Speakers blast everything from 80s pop to offbeat jazz, and classic cocktails get a vibrant remix with colourful small-batch Japanese spirits. An instant hit.

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