boozyoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:07 pm Yes. Party House on Sok San.

It is shuttered and sad to behold now - it used to be very lively.

It had two incarnations that I know of. The original owner, an Australian, who ran it for about a year or so and a second owner from maybe Germany or Italy. It may have had other owners as well but I don't know about that.

When it first opened and for many months afterwards, it was often very busy and open very late. They also did very good food and a good time was pretty much guaranteed. You'd get good food, good company and a good atmosphere but it started to go into some kind of decline for some reason. I don't know if the novelty of the new bar wore off or what, but there was a dip in the levels of clientele and that becomes something of a downward spiral for a bar.

Dwindling customer numbers changed the dynamic of the place and people either went somewhere else entirely looking for the atmosphere or spent less time there before moving on. The original owner wanted out because it was becoming a burden, I think, and eventually sold to some European, as I said above. From what I understand the new guy then spent what was probably quite a lot of money on the place by significantly re-working it but I was out of town by then so never was able to sample the place personally.

Shame it's closed, next time back in SR I would have like to stop by there.

Brewer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:14 am

boozyoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:07 pm Yes. Party House on Sok San.

It is shuttered and sad to behold now - it used to be very lively.

It had two incarnations that I know of.

The original owner, an Australian, who ran it for about a year or so and a second owner from maybe Germany or Italy. It may have had other owners as well but I don't know about that.

When it first opened and for many months afterwards, it was often very busy and open very late. They also did very good food and a good time was pretty much guaranteed. You'd get good food, good company and a good atmosphere but it started to go into some kind of decline for some reason. I don't know if the novelty of the new bar wore off or what, but there was a dip in the levels of clientele and that becomes something of a downward spiral for a bar.

Dwindling customer numbers changed the dynamic of the place and people either went somewhere else entirely looking for the atmosphere or spent less time there before moving on. The original owner wanted out because it was becoming a burden, I think, and eventually sold to some European, as I said above. From what I understand the new guy then spent what was probably quite a lot of money on the place by significantly re-working it but I was out of town by then so never was able to sample the place personally.

Shame it's closed, next time back in SR I would have like to stop by there.

If you do a search on the ''other forum'' you will find the first owner was Ian, an Australian and sold it to Jeff , [ and Brunt ] an American .

Duncan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:58 am

Brewer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:14 am

boozyoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:07 pm Yes. Party House on Sok San.

It is shuttered and sad to behold now - it used to be very lively.

It had two incarnations that I know of.

The original owner, an Australian, who ran it for about a year or so and a second owner from maybe Germany or Italy. It may have had other owners as well but I don't know about that.

When it first opened and for many months afterwards, it was often very busy and open very late. They also did very good food and a good time was pretty much guaranteed. You'd get good food, good company and a good atmosphere but it started to go into some kind of decline for some reason. I don't know if the novelty of the new bar wore off or what, but there was a dip in the levels of clientele and that becomes something of a downward spiral for a bar.

Dwindling customer numbers changed the dynamic of the place and people either went somewhere else entirely looking for the atmosphere or spent less time there before moving on. The original owner wanted out because it was becoming a burden, I think, and eventually sold to some European, as I said above. From what I understand the new guy then spent what was probably quite a lot of money on the place by significantly re-working it but I was out of town by then so never was able to sample the place personally.

Shame it's closed, next time back in SR I would have like to stop by there.

If you do a search on the ''other forum'' you will find the first owner was Ian, an Australian and sold it to Jeff , [ and Brunt ] an American .

I presume you are talking about Garage? We were talking about the Party House in Siem Reap.

Brewer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 8:35 am

Duncan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:58 am

Brewer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:14 am

boozyoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:07 pm Yes. Party House on Sok San.

It is shuttered and sad to behold now - it used to be very lively.

It had two incarnations that I know of.

The original owner, an Australian, who ran it for about a year or so and a second owner from maybe Germany or Italy. It may have had other owners as well but I don't know about that.

When it first opened and for many months afterwards, it was often very busy and open very late. They also did very good food and a good time was pretty much guaranteed. You'd get good food, good company and a good atmosphere but it started to go into some kind of decline for some reason. I don't know if the novelty of the new bar wore off or what, but there was a dip in the levels of clientele and that becomes something of a downward spiral for a bar.

Dwindling customer numbers changed the dynamic of the place and people either went somewhere else entirely looking for the atmosphere or spent less time there before moving on. The original owner wanted out because it was becoming a burden, I think, and eventually sold to some European, as I said above. From what I understand the new guy then spent what was probably quite a lot of money on the place by significantly re-working it but I was out of town by then so never was able to sample the place personally.

Shame it's closed, next time back in SR I would have like to stop by there.

If you do a search on the ''other forum'' you will find the first owner was Ian, an Australian and sold it to Jeff , [ and Brunt ] an American .

I presume you are talking about Garage? We were talking about the Party House in Siem Reap.

Sorry, caffeine in my morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

Duncan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:58 amIf you do a search on the ''other forum'' you will find the first owner was Ian, an Australian and sold it to Jeff , [ and Brunt ] an American .

Duncan, are you in contact with Brunt?

Hobby bars usually need to be run by someone with friends to inhabit the bar.
Otherwise, as seen all across southeast Asia, you have a bars with owner with some staff hanging out all day and night with no customers on every average day and occassionally some random customers come in but there is no solid customer base.
Actually 15 k for that location and bar is not bad depending on what the rent is.
The right owner could make it work.

In many cases it seems the only qualification you need to open a bar here is that you know how to drink beer.


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rozzieoz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:59 pm In many cases it seems the only qualification you need to open a bar here is that you know how to drink beer.


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I thought that having the ability to find good looking girls and giving them a job would qualify someone to open a '' girly bar ''