I went out to eat last night with a few friends to a dodgy little spot called the Nippon Club. These places are apparently pretty typical around Sydney. It's a members type of bar with restaurant, but open to anyone. You sign in when you get there and they give you a little name tag of sorts. Picture a Knights of Columbus, but only slightly more kept up, but still dated.
The Nippon Club, as you might guess, has a sushi restaurant as well as a bar. The place itself feels like it's right out of the 1950s. The cozy bar area has one TV and two speakers playing a random assortment of music (the Austin Powers theme song was on when we were leaving). They have the obligatory slot machines that you'll find in most bars around the city as well. In back was the restaurant with what looked to be a small karaoke setup and piano. Thankfully, the night didn't go that route. The sushi was good and fresh and reasonably priced. They also had Sapporo on tap, which was a nice touch.
But the sushi wasn't the best part of the night. One of the other people there is an American expat and he told me that Costco has plans to open a store in Sydney. When I got home, after a few too many beers for a Tuesday, I looked it up and sure enough, Costco is currently building a 150,000 square foot warehouse with plans to open sometime in (hopefully) early 2011 about 30 minutes from me. I'm hoping that the store opens on a weekend so I can camp out and be the first person in the store. This also means that I'll need to take a few more test drives in a car over the next couple of months to make that drive a little easier than the one to Ikea. Which, by the way, ended up costing me an additional $85 in tolls and late fees which I didn't realize I had accumulated during that short trip seeing as though there were no visible sensors that I drove through. Oh well.
That's it. Just thought I'd share my big news for the week.
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