Section 8

Great drinks

Apart from how crowded this bar gets on a Friday which they have recently started managing by not letting too many people in, I love this bar. It is opposite work & they know how to make their drinks. They make a mean bloody mary & know that a vodka lime & soda doesnt mean a short tumbler with half a bottle of lime cordial.

COOL

This place was awesome! easy-going, excellent atmosphere... just brilliant.

only thing bad was the red wine.

could only happen in melbourne

It could only happen in melbourne. Being a melb person myself I miss the things that are inimitable to the town I love. Saw the picture in good weekend in sydney made me home sick , makes me wanna get a on cheap flight and go to the bar , jealous of all melb offerings go there for work but not enough. sydney is the pits never anything at all ever with even a hint of interesting here and the people well wot can I say except for the melb expats here there all up them selves pretentious dickheads and wanna bees. hail melb . I have a thing about containers maybe if the license is discontinued you could travel with it like the speigeltent. I wanna have one here. Any ideas or help could we start the melbourne friends society bar or something for home sick melbbornagains.

please send me a photo and hope you guys are f....g amazing .

Section 8 : Container Bar

Section 8 opened with a big bang. Located in a Chinatown car park next to the iconic Shanghai Dumplings restaurant, the bar’s opening stayed true to the traditions of it’s neighbours with lion dances, firecrackers and even had honorable John So gracing the event.

Avid Melbourne bar lovers Sean, Richard, Maslyn and Craig have always been into the city’s bar scene and during one fateful booze-fuelled session, the idea of starting Section 8 materialised. Klinger from cult comedy M*A*S*H was the inspiration for the bar’s name. Section 8 was the term for the mentally insane discharge that could have been his ticket out of the war zone. The four boys figured that since they’re part insane themselves, why not?

Section 8’s subterfuge style might have people walking straight by mistaking it for an abandoned car park. The bar itself was fashioned from an ex-shipping container and the seating area made up of neatly stacked wooden crates. Sean says this untouched urban feel was achieved with the help of architectural company Diretribe. On closer observation the giant letters covering the car park floor make up the spelling for ‘diretribe’ and ‘section 8’ jumbled in a haphazard way.

Section 8 carries eleven different beers, four reds and whites, and a promising cocktail list is currently underway. In the morning, Section 8 serves up refreshing ‘slow food’ breakfasts and smoothly changes to a cool bar lit with Chinese lanterns in the evening.