Naked For Satan, Melbourne: The best Brunswick Street bar?
Naked For Satan is one of the most popular bars in the Fitzroy neighbourhood of Melbourne. This Fitzroy rooftop bar’s infused vodka collection makes it stand out from the crowd.
How did Naked For Satan get its name?
As names for bars go, you have to admit that Naked For Satan in Melbourne is fairly eye-catching. The name of this Brunswick Street bar comes from Russian immigrant Leon Satanovich, who escaped the pogroms in his birth country in 1928. His name was quickly truncated to Satan, and he started illicitly producing vodka.
It got so hot by the stills in the Melbourne summer that Satanovich would strip down to virtually nothing. Satan’s moonshine business became popular with the locals of the Fitzroy neighbourhood. The distiller being in his underpants didn’t put anyone off. “Let’s go naked for Satan” became the pass phrase for anyone wanting to come in and drink the unlicenced vodka.
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Naked For Satan rooftop bar in Fitzroy
Melbourne bar Naked For Satan plays tribute to this story. It has a downstairs lounge area, but most come to Naked For Satan for the rooftop bar and restaurant with fab views over Melbourne CBD. The rooftop bar makes Naked For Satan one of the most reliably popular haunts on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy’s main drag.
Spirits and cocktails are Naked For Satan’s main focus. Highlights of the Naked For Satan cocktail menu include Leon’s Manhattan, which has Amarena cherry, and Rosemary Reincarnated. This experimental cocktail is a mix of dry gin, sweet vermouth, rosemary mist spray and smoked rosemary.
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Naked For Satan menu: Infused vodkas
This Fitzroy bar is probably most notorious for its infused vodkas, however. These flavoured vodkas are made in-house, just as Leon Satanovich would have probably wanted.
The Naked For Satan menu of infused vodkas has flavours including strawberry, peach, passionfruit and Turkish delight. Other options at this Melbourne vodka bar include lychee and ginger, green apple and cherry, plus chilli and cinnamon. The full list is available on the bar’s website.
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Indulge in top-notch Greek food at Ipsos in Lorne.
Eat German feasts at the Hahndorf Inn in the Adelaide Hills.