Black Opal Tabaret

We always visit this venue when in Melbourne reasonably priced wine complimentary coffee (great coffee too) friendly welcoming staff see you next Melbourne trip Deborah Pape

Black Opal Café Bar Gamming Business located at 195 Swanston Street

January 2023 Update - New Happy Hour 4pm till 6.00pm $4 Pots of Beer / $4 Wines

A Friendly Place in Melbourne City to Meet Old & New Friends

Great Place to Go for Coffee / Have a Beer or Wine / Poker Machines

Excellent Long Term Staff / Always Giving a Great Customer Experience

Indoor & Out Door Seating / Tram Stop Out Front / Plus More……

Situated in the very centre of Melbourne, We visit this place every time we are in Melbourne, friendly staff, lots of gaming machines, good food and coffee just around the corner from bourke st mall,
short walk to Museum and other attractions, not far to Victoria Markets!

Good place, staff is very welcoming, cheering, 5 stars for the staff and management.specially the one bringing luck to you. If the visitors also show inclusion and welcoming attitude. It will be the 5 star place to visit.

Nice place The staff were friendly a big shout out to Malcolm and the lovely ladies too very nice people xxx

I go this place many time and spend much money. I never see anyone ever win pokie. I think this place not good for win pokie. I not come back not happy with place. Stay away save money

Terrible place avoid at all costs.
The poker machines never pay out ever a absolute disgrace.
The beer is always flat on tap and the wine has been opened sitting there for days as the bar doesn’t have much of a turnover. Many of my friends use to go there and now it’s true what they say the machines don’t pay out and the alcohol tastes terrible.
You have been warned. Avoid this establishment.

Black Opal Café Bar Gamming Business located at 195 Swanston Street

April 2021 Update - New Happy Hour 4pm till 6.00pm $3 Pots of Beer / $3 Wines

A Friendly Place in Melbourne City to Meet Old & New Friends

Great Place to Go for Coffee / Have a Beer or Wine / Poker Machines

Excellent Long Term Staff / Always Giving a Great Customer Experience

Indoor & Out Door Seating / Tram Stop Out Front / Plus More……

This place is amazing, If you travel to Melbourne you have to go. Good food, nice views, a lot of shops for eating and drinking. If you really like comfortable hotels you can spend some nights in the Crown Towers.

Half the people that work here think you're lucky if they talk to you the other half are lovely.

Expensive, for terrible food, and poor service.staff never smile, and their body language tells you they hate working there

We visit this place every time we are in Melbourne, friendly staff, lots of gaming machines, just around the corner from burk st mall.

Sometimes win, sometimes lose. Good after football. Safe venue. Floor staff friendly and attentive.

I left a bag behind and came back for it. I arrived at this place around 5 minutes after business hours so the glass door was closed. There were staff finishing up inside and the security guy was sitting on a chair facing the door playing with his phone. I knocked and knocked and used the flash on my phone to show my presence. Even though he was facing my side, it was not easy to raise his alert with my tapping on the door or the SOS kind of flashing as there was a around 10meter halfway in between. The security guy was feeling absolutely secure. A few minutes later and after a few peeks, the security guy stumbled towards the door to see what I was after. I told him I left a bag behind and would like him to see if they had it. Knowing that I wasn't some mafia guy, he just asked me to come back the next morning because they had already closed. Then he waddled back to the chair carrying on his phone business. I was standing outside the door expecting some miracle with some v
'maybes'in my head just like what many other customers do here during the business hours. Around 15 minutes later, they then all disappeared, leaving me wonder why the outcome wasn't even close to any of my 'maybes'. I felt like I was a kid in the zoo trying to reach out to get to the other side of the glass but the glass turned out to be the widest gap in the world.
They didn't do anything wrong. It was just me, a customer, that had such a bad experience at this place.

DEPRESSING POKIE VENUE
This venue on Swanston Street has a front section where you can order food and drinks and sit at outdoor tables. It's not trendy or glamorous and the food is simple. The staff are quite friendly.
The rear section has the pokie machines and is dark and gloomy. You can also get drinks from a bar in this section.

Quite a good place to grab some drink, sit outside there and then enjoy the street view. Have been there for many times as I pretty love its premium creamy Cappuccino.
Staffs are, sometimes kind and warmhearted (while for couple of times they just came out, took away my mug and cleaned the table right in front of me, when I just finished the coffee).
Basically it closes a bit later than other cafes, so it would be a 'place to be' if u just hang around CBD.