2 Beresford Square,
Newton
Auckland,


021 2BSQUARE (021 227 7827) or (09) 300 5040

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5 out of 5

The first time I drove past the Supper Club, I took it for a successful brunch outfit.

Its pavement seating was packed, and it seemed that the people sitting on the steps opposite were patiently waiting for a table to come up.

It's not a brunch outfit, though—it's a 24-hour bar with DJs. If you're here at 10am on a weekend it's because you've been up all night, having consumed concoctions which made you feel superhuman.

And if you're sitting on the steps opposite, you'll be handling their hardness because you're feeling Comfortably Numb.

Either way, you're likely to have had such a good night you don't want it to end.

This is a unique place, and not only because it's the spot in the city to go when sleep seems no fun.

Tucked down semi-pedestrian Beresford Square, the Supper Club used to be a public toilet block and sits, looking like a Parisian cafe, in the middle of the space.

As well as the outside seating, there's a cool lounge area right down in the bowels of the thing (sorry). It's here that the modern-day toilets are situated, too.

Upstairs, the bar usually gets packed with folks dancing when the Supper Club has its motor running. Beer and mixers are standard fare rather than cocktails.

We turned up at 11pm on a Saturday recently, about eight hours too early, just to see what it was like.

There was a table of folks looking rather worse for wear next to us, one of whom (Rachel from Te Atatu, I think) told us she was buddies with the owners and that The Supper Club usually closed at one, maybe two o'clock.

We knew the place, and sniggered quietly to ourselves. “Two in the morning? … the DJ hasn't even set up yet. She's talking rubbish.”

Rachel had been talking rubbish, actually, and lots of it. But she was right about this one thing—in as much as she meant one in the afternoon; an hour to which we'd never survived.