Dragonfly Bar + Dining

Dragonfly Bar + Dining opened its doors this week, reintroducing long-overdue excitement and vitality to the true heart of Adelaide, Victoria Square.

Dragonfly is the project of 5 friends who share a mutual obsession with good food, wine, art and music.

The new interior fit-out faithfully reflects the group’s unique, eclectic mix of opinion and taste through a unified vision. It is an extension of the owners' living spaces.

There are two key elements to Dragonfly; a licensed bar and a dining experience.

As a licensed space, Dragonfly will take on a bar atmosphere into the evening hours, offering boutique beers, wines and spirits from Australia as well as selected imported varieties. On offer is an impressive range of local and international bottled beers, complemented by Asahi and Bohemian Pilsner on tap. The wine list is simple and features a considered selection of 20 wines, most of which are available by the glass. There is also a striking, elegant cocktail list, which includes the classics, as well as new creations. Fresh juices, fine-quality coffee, hot chocolate and an extensive range of loose-leaf teas round off a comprehensive list of beverage options.

The menu is exciting, yet simple with a focus on providing healthy, delicious food, drawing inspiration from Japanese, Spanish and Italian cuisine. It takes advantage of the range of local produce, particularly from the Adelaide Central Markets. Its concept centres around the creation of tapas-style treats, inspired regional dishes, Japanese street food and retro cakes + sweets. The menu will cater for individual dining, but also encourage a shared group experience. The full dining menu will be available most days from lunch (including take-away “bento” style), throughout the day and well into the evening.

During the day, Dragonfly is a little urban hiding place, similar to the unique, special utopias of yesteryear we used to go to, like The Coffee Pot, Ruby’s Café and the old State Library Café; places in which you could “disappear”. You can be with friends, or alone and read a good book for a couple of hours with some delicious treats and a drink or two.

On Friday and Saturday nights, you can be guaranteed all the charm of the daytime atmosphere with the added bonus of Adelaide’s most innovative live acts and DJs playing through a quality club system.

An equally important focus of the Dragonfly group is to encourage local artists and musicians by providing a space to exhibit and perform their works.

Dragonfly is open Tuesday to Friday for lunch + Wednesday to Saturday for dinner (Friday + Saturday nights til 3am).

dragonfly bar + dining
193 Victoria Square Adelaide
http://www.dragonflybar.net.au

Replicas (ex-Supaphatass) 3-track 12" EP available now at B# Records

Asahi on tap hooray

good to see! send me a pic, and i'll write up a news item over the weekend, or early next week (to catch the newsletter)

the menu looks pretty damn good.

Sounds great!

What will the musical styles be on Fri and Sat nights? Is it comparative to Mesa Lunga or Elysium in terms of starting your night there for a quiet, classy drinks, before you head off elsewhere?

I checked this out this week..This place really has massive potential I reckon. Cant wait to go there and have a proper drink. The sound system is loud and v clean. My crystal ball tells me there are times to be had at 193 Vic square in the future!

fish go deep

I am really looking forward to checking Dragonfly out!

come in tonight for dinner and drinks, then....Martin + Jayde from 11pm

dragonfly bar + dining
193 Victoria Square Adelaide
http://www.dragonflybar.net.au

Replicas (ex-Supaphatass) 3-track 12" EP available now at B# Records

This DOES sound like a nifty venue indeed!

Hope you guys have every bit of success as it sounds like a very cool place with a LOT to offer!

having my 30th there, werd.

you chefs are hot :p

which building is this in?

Sounds cool I'm going to check it out this Saturday, nice work having Martin & Jayde on the decks.

ahhh ok dope, have to come check it out

thats just around the corner from work, i'll be sure to bring in a gaggle of girls

please advise when this gaggle will attend thanks thumb, the usual text proclaiming "poon in the building" will do.

Friday 20th:
Pixel + Doki Doki DJs tag team from 6pm

Saturday 21st:
Mods in dinner mode from 7pm
Martin & Jayde (11pm)

dragonfly bar + dining
193 Victoria Square Adelaide
http://www.dragonflybar.net.au

Replicas (ex-Supaphatass) 3-track 12" EP available now at B# Records

Nice work guys Dragonfly is looking very very good. Last Saturday was mad, we had a great night. Superb soundsystem, loved playing on it. Excellent turn out, especially for a first saturday night! Good to see a few familiar faces there, hope to see a few more this week. Looking forward to saturday! Go Dragonfly!

yeah defly gonna check this out one saturday..

see youse there- last sat'dee was pretty rad.

fish go deep

Lookin forward to tonight will be at the DF early for drinks then goin to check out The Bamboos then after that will be back to catch some Martin & Jayde action see you guys there.

went last night for a drink - very cool. loved the lounges and cushions, comfort = win.

i hate to compare, but it had a very melbourne "cozy bar" feel.