Now Kippax Tavern is Closing!

Maelinar said :

Its going to be a macca’s. Ironically you will be able to be a latte sipping wanker on the site of the old Kippax Tavern.

It’s true. Although with it’s close proximity to Charnwood, do you really think it’s gonna make them much more money?

Its going to be a macca’s. Ironically you will be able to be a latte sipping wanker on the site of the old Kippax Tavern.

There is a rumour that a Hungry Jacks outlet will be built at the Kippax Tavern location. Can anyone confirm this?

Also, does anyone know who bought the two vacant commercial blocks (near the Magpies Club) and what they are going to build there?

Hey Mouse, I hear you mate.

I have drank at the Kippax Tavern on and off for over 20 years and have met many great people there. My father, now passed, drank there since the very early 80’s when the likes of Darcy Henry (now Moby Dick’s owner), Herby Doombling and Neil Palmer ran the place. Vicky and Bill were the last owners of the place and for the record, they were bloody awesome people. If you didn’t get on with them, you were obviously now worthy. As someone said in a previous post, it wasn’t everyone’s cuppa, but like they say, if you don’t like it, piss off and drink elsewhere you latte sipping wankers.

Sure, the place has seen it’s share of knuckle dragging wankers come throught the place, but they didn’t really last that long anyway, they were punted off elsewhere where that kind of crap is welcomed.

The tavern badly needed a bloody good re-furb, but from what I hear, some **** **** **** **** owns the land it is on and it will most likely be re-zoned into scum sucking townies to be filled with social miss-fits, dole bludgers and loosers, as is the case with the new townies nest to the Magpies Club. And for all those Magpies Club slammers, the trouble (police call out’s) you are refering to is 80% attributed to the rubbish that is housed in the townies next door.

Moby Dicks Taverns is a great place, sure it has it’s odd balls too, but what establishment doesn’t. Darcy and Rhonda are great people, it would be great to see some of the old Kippax Tavern folks drinking at Moby’s, I’m sure Darcy and Rhonda would agree with that.

James-T-Kirk said :

If it closes, then where will the bogans drink????

Think of the bogans.

Are you telling me the bogans aren’t drinking enough to keep the place viable?

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Can they close the Kambah tavern next? Who do I need to write to?

Why not buy it, and have it re-zoned as a Golf Course!

Can they close the Kambah tavern next? Who do I need to write to?

If it closes, then where will the bogans drink????

Think of the bogans.

Mouse said :

The Kippax was a good place for a beer with mates. It ws frequented by tradesmen, motorcycle riders, women and families, and everyone had a job (except for any retirees) . Well, it’s closed so all you panty-waist,light-soy-latte sippers had better start worrying. We might come to your place now….. and the Maggies isn’t out of the question. But there are too many cops there all the time!

Boom-tish!

The Kippax was a good place for a beer with mates. It ws frequented by tradesmen, motorcycle riders, women and families, and everyone had a job (except for any retirees) . Well, it’s closed so all you panty-waist,light-soy-latte sippers had better start worrying. We might come to your place now….. and the Maggies isn’t out of the question. But there are too many cops there all the time!

OK, somebody has to say it: aren’t your stereotyping fingers getting sore? Not everyone who likes a no-frills tav is a neanderthal. And not everyone in Manuka is kind to all who enter their beloved drinking establishment, either.

In defence of Moby Dick’s, I have been there alone for a bit of peace and quiet, and was pleasantly surprised to find a friendly group of people who were happy to chat with me over a beer, and respected my choice to spend a while sitting on my own quietly, too.

Mind you, I accept that weekend nights attract the stupider members of our species… but that happens at pretty much any watering hole, doesn’t it?

the kippax tavern is no great loss………but it is truly a pity that the knuckle draggers that drink there will now be infesting the other three kippax watering holes

I actually hardly drink at Kippax Tavern, but I recognise some people like to drink there and now they’ll have to drink somewhere else.

I also drink at the Magpies club on an equally rare basis and know a few of the staff there too. They have a huge problem late at night/ early in morning over weekends.

Figures re call-outs were from discussions with police mates of mine. I doubt they’re published because the cops actually want to be called out when there’s trouble.

Nah, the Fyshwick tavern is closer, surely?

Failing that, I assume they’re probably the same clientele that frequent the Kambah and Wanniassa taverns… Just a quick (albeit drunken) trip down the parkway and they’re pretty much there.

Pommy bastard said :

I suppose what really matters is where the …ahem “clientele” of the Kippax Tavern choose to grace with their custom next.

A bit of a way to go, but probably Chisholm Tavern…

We’d be better off keeping the Kippax Tavern open, thus keeping the creatures that inhabit it away from the alternative venues.

The place makes Moby Dicks look civilised…I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure.

I suppose what really matters is where the …ahem “clientele” of the Kippax Tavern choose to grace with their custom next.

I’ve gotta agree with #1 and #3.

When I moved to this side of town I wandered around looking for a watering hole I could call my own. One glance at the sub-humans gracing the Kippax Tavern helped me decide it would not be making my short-list.

Felix the Cat said :

Biased toward Kippax Tavern much? Can’t say I’ve ever been there myself but I go to Magpies Club two or three times a week and have done for some years and in that time I have only ever seen one fight and the staff dealt with it and the Police weren’t called. Where do you get your facts and figures from, PM?

Well, it’s not called the dirty bird for nothing.

Genie said :

Would it really matter if Kippax Tavern closed down ?? There is West Belconnen Raiders Club, The Magpies Club, Moby Dicks AND the tavern. All within 5 minutes walk of each other.

And two three bottle shops, for the long walks in between…

I’ve been planning a Kippax Pub Crawl for some time. Looks like I’ll finally have to do it before the end of November.

Ironically, the Magpies Club in Kippax, practically next door to the Kippax Tavern, has one of the highest police call-outs in the ACT yet it is able to continue on its merry way while a quiet and unassuming drinking hole is forced to close, despite Corbell stating these new laws were about reducing violence.

As a regular to the Magpies club, they do have some issues on Friday and Saturday nights that the police do occasionally have to attend. But I am going to put full blame onto the bar staff there. They have a lock out on Saturday nights, no one in after midnight. However once your in you can watch overly drunk people walk to and from the bar and never get questioned or told they have had enough.

If you wanna know where all the violence is and police call outs, I think you should be refering to PJs in Tuggers. Who are supposedly avoiding calling the police to issues these days as they are at risk of losing their licence.

Would it really matter if Kippax Tavern closed down ?? There is West Belconnen Raiders Club, The Magpies Club, Moby Dicks AND the tavern. All within 5 minutes walk of each other.

Took a visit there myself a couple of years ago, mostly as an attempt to move away from the plain vanilla Canberra club scene. Didn’t swear never to return, but never did. Now, I’m your average white Anglo-Saxon bloke … and I found the place as uncomfortable/distasteful as #1 did. Often wondered to myself as I strolled into Magpies how the Tavern stayed solvent.

Is it any wonder that Cbr is dominated by clubs when the suburban alternative appears to be the Page (is it still going? equally dire) and Kippax Tavs. Just nasty.

“Ironically, the Magpies Club in Kippax, practically next door to the Kippax Tavern, has one of the highest police call-outs in the ACT yet it is able to continue on its merry way while a quiet and unassuming drinking hole is forced to close, despite Corbell stating these new laws were about reducing violence.”

Biased toward Kippax Tavern much? Can’t say I’ve ever been there myself but I go to Magpies Club two or three times a week and have done for some years and in that time I have only ever seen one fight and the staff dealt with it and the Police weren’t called. Where do you get your facts and figures from, PM?

Well.

I’ve not long returned from my first – and, hopefully, my last – ever drink at the Kippax Tavern.

My shirt had a collar. My mate’s mistake was to have antecedents who did not grow up in the slums of nineteenth century England. Perhaps we hadn’t thought this through.

The very first bloke we pass on the way through the door felt the need to lay into us. That he hoped we enjoyed our stay ‘here’ was probably the nicest thing he said to us, although by ‘here’ I take it he meant ‘Australia’. Told us – amongst various other things – we were clearly rich so-and-sos and should foofing well buy the pub if we want to drink there. That way the bar would stay open.

Anyway, I took the gentleman’s last remark as my opportunity to find out what’s going on. Said we’d heard the pub was to close, and were saddened by the prospect. (The locals – when they thought I couldn’t hear them – later muttered that they doubted I could be sad when they’d never seen me before.)

The upshot – from the fragments of English I could make out – is that the Kippax Tav is not closing because of the licensing issue. Indeed, the barmaid seemed insulted when I suggested that was what’s going on. Rather, the owner is simply selling up. The issue seems to be that the land has become too valuable to justify a pub like that on it (especially, I suppose, with Moby Dick’s just down the road). I presume they’ll look to put up some trendyish shoebox flats like the ones on the other side of the Maggies’ Club.

At any rate, they were all quite clear on it not being to do with the liquor licensing changes.

Later, two more of my mates arrived. One of them has the dress and demeanour of the sort of man who does not enjoy the company of the fairer sex. When he walked in and opened his mouth, it was like the honky-tonk piano falling silent in a wild west saloon bar.

The locals are clearly agitated by what’s going on, but I don’t really accept that as any kind of excuse. Knock the foofing thing down tomorrow.