Society Salamanca is an atmospheric gin-and-whisky bar occupying the ground floor of a brutal-looking concrete building just up the hill from Salamanca Place. Try some Brocken Spectre gin, distilled a few hundred metres away in Battery Point. Tapas on Tuesday from 6pm.
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