Beneath Driver Lane

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Driver Lane is a tiny alleyway off Little Bourke Street in the city. If you take a walk down there at night you’ll see a man and a velvet rope in front of a door. Descend the stairs and you’ll reach a giant glass door with a wrought-iron frame that opens automatically into a low-lit, cavernous space.

This is the ceremonious entrance to Beneath Driver Lane, located in the vault of the old Money Order Office, an appendage to the GPO building. The space mixes old with new; there are original brick archways, marble flourishes and a domed ceiling mingling with low-hanging pendants and partitions made of rope. Semi-private banquettes flank the space and the walls are adorned with dozens of black and white photos from eras past.