Walking down King Street in Newtown, one of Sydney's oldest suburbs, one's senses can become completely overwhelmed. Despite its colourful boutiques and a seemingly endless array of second-hand book stores, it's the tastebuds that really get the work-out with the strip's vast line of culinary delights. I've walked King Street many times and have counted over 140 pubs, restuarants and cafes along it.

These never stay static either. Constantly changing, upgrading, renaming and expanding one can always expect a new gastronomic adventure to greet them when visiting King Street.

Well, I'm determined to end that and achieve the near impossible: to feast from every restaurant/cafe/bar on King Street and live to tell the tale.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gloria Jeans

@ 156-158 King Street, Newtown

 **Finally, Gloria Jeans has been pushed off the strip and replaced by... another chain store. Mad Mex. Not sure if that's a complete improvement or not.

It's been a while since I went to this Gloria Jeans. In fact, I've only visited it once. It looks nice on the outside but I guess I'm a Gloria Jeans snob because I've not returned since. In fact, I'm such a snob that when Max Brenner opened up no less than 5 doors down from Gloria Jeans I was smirking like a naughty little school kid who's just played a prank on their teacher.

Sure the ambience looks nice, it's quite roomy and there are stacks of comfortable chairs. But one Gloria Jeans is like another and the only times I would ever go to it is if it were the only option or on a late night cake binge - which this Gloria Jeans can't even fulfil as it closes so damn early.

To all you GL fans, enjoy. To the rest of us, there's always Max Brenner, Urban Bites, Buzzzbar and Cafe C.


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  1. Anastasia BeaverhausenAugust 22, 2011 at 12:21 AM

    Just FYI, the owners donate a lot of money to some really terrible groups - anti-gay, anti-abortion, and Mercy Ministries (look it up if you dare). I will never set foot in a GJ again.

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