The Thousands

Sometimes, if you’re a weird psychic type or a hippie of some kind, you walk into a place and you can feel its future. ThreeThousand isn’t psychic, but walking into Sister Bella you can’t help but feel the way Steve Rubell might have felt the night before they opened Studio 54 (except without the expectation of huge personal profit). From the moment it opens on Saturday, Sister Bella is gonna be awesome. Maybe even too awesome.

For the owners of St Jeromes, it’s a major step up from milk crates. Instead there are velvet upholstered stools, polished tables, ornate tiles, framed illustrations and hand painted murals on the walls. The menu, which includes huge cheap pasta dishes, soups and pides, is going to attract RMIT students like flies to an abandoned Chuppa Chup. Team this with bargain beers and you have a recipe for crowds larger than Friday night at Transport. Luckily Sister Bella is also a weeny bit hard to find. And we sure ain’t giving anyone a map.