A multi-level 500-person capacity izakaya with a bar, dance floor, games, karaoke rooms and stacks of Japanese snacks, spirits and sake. That’s what’s being promised by Sydney-based hospitality group Solotel when it opens Goros in Fortitude Valley early next year. Taking over the old Little Valley premises on Warner Street, Goros will use the space’s former street-side dining room and second-level bar area, but also have a third level for karaoke and function rooms.
It’s not a new concept for Solotel, with the original Goros opening in Surry Hills in Sydney in 2014. It was inspired by now-CEO Elliot Solomon’s earlier travels to Tokyo, where he discovered the city’s iconic food streets, which are often packed around the city’s train stations. “They have all these food alleys either underneath or just behind the train tracks,” Solomon says.
“All these shops. There might be yakitori, fried chicken and there will usually be an izakaya as well. “So while I’d say the concept is based on an izakaya or Japanese pub, the experience is more like what it’s like walking down one of those streets.
That’s how we tried to imagine it.” Four to try: Brisbane’s best vinyl listening bars Goros Sydney is designed as a place of discovery, with different experiences tucked away in different parts of the venue. Brisbane will be the same, Solomon says, but Solotel’s in-house design team is collaborating with Brisbane-based KP Architects (The Greek Club, Sandstone Po.
