The Swinging Cat

The foundations of The Cat began with a venue. Not THIS venue, but A venue. The venue was tiny, barely enough room to really understand where the patrons would sit, let alone where the booze would be, but it had potential and a vision began forming. Some time later, amidst lease negotiations and legal advise a name was chosen. The Swinging Cat. Because in that venue, there was barely enough room to swing a cat. Obviously, fate intervened and that venue was snapped up by some other ambitious entrepeneur and we were back on the hunt for a new location. Over the intervening years there were big venues and small venues, none quite ticking the boxes, but throughout the search a brand was born.

The Swinging Cat encompasses the culture, beauty and sheer magic from the legendary birth place of the Sazerac, Ramos Gin Fizz, and of course the Hurricane. New Orleans. The city itself offers such a varied and colorful history which is still seen today down every street of the French Quarter. Our vision of The Cat was not to recreate a bar in New Orleans, but rather to capture the energy and atmosphere which is so unique to New Orleans, and bottle that feeling inside our little corner of Sydney. The design elements draw from every aspect of NOLA's French Quarter, from the gas lit street lamps, to the mosaic entryways we hope to transport you straight onto the corner of Rue Royal and Conti.