It's got a prime spot on the Kingston Foreshore, looking right out over the waters of Lake Burley Griffin, and it wants to be your new local.
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The capital's newest bar, Walt and Burley, is open.
General manager Bill Komoroski said the lakehouse-style bar with outdoor benches, a copper-hooded fireplace and warm colours, aimed to be an accessible, comfortable drinking hole.
"We want to be very much community based, we want to be part of the community. Being a mixed use area, we want to make sure we make friends faster than anything else," he said.
There's also the possibility of live music at the bar on Sunday afternoons. "In the future we'll be doing duos on the weekends. With the doors open it will be an amazing space so we can push out towards the park and activate that area as well," Mr Komoroski said.
But he said the music would be handled responsibly. "Being a mixed used area we've got to be very careful and respect our neighbours upstairs."
Mr Komoroski said the bar would be open seven days a week and would serve food and drink from opening until late.
"Everything shuts down at 2.30pm down here, you could shoot a cannon down here," he says. "And then Mondays - Mondays for crying tears! So my statement with the directors was this: we open seven days, at least open until 10pm because I hate the idea that if someone makes the effort, one of my guests makes the effort to come down here and the doors are closed, that upsets me. Our goal is to be open seven days a week."
Mr Komoroski - an American who came to Australia 19 years ago to work in the hospitality industry - said Walt and Burley's menu, which features a smokehouse section of pulled pork, smoky brisket and ribs, was comfort food from local produce that didn't clash with the existing restaurants on the strip. The drinks list will feature local beers and in the summer, he said, there would also be a seafood focus on the menu.
And there was space for everyone. "There's very little entertainment space [at the apartments] so we want this to be an extension of their living room, so when they have two or four people round they can come down here," he said.