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Modern Bar & Eatery with South American Flair at Cartel


Why you'll love this venue

  • Multi-layered destination for food, drink, and cultural experiences.
  • Diverse food and beverage menu options tailored for various events.
  • Capacity for up to 76 people, available for private events and functions.
CARTEL, is a Modern Latin American restaurant and bar situated on the ground floor of The Old Rum store, Kensington Street Chippendale. CARTEL pays homage to the intense and diverse cultural and culinary makeup of South America with a drinks menu that has been curated by international mixologist Grant Collins. Cartel Kensington Street offers a range of food and beverage menu options for all types of events. With a capacity of up to 76 people, Cartel can be booked for private events and functions. Bring some South American flavour to your life at Cartel!

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Packages, Menus & Offers

Please note, that pricing and inclusions may be subject to change without notice. We recommend confirming with the venue prior to booking to ensure you have the most up-to-date information.


Room Layouts & Capacity

Cluster50
Standing100
Banquet76

Amenities & Extras

$= Additional Cost

Food & Beverage

BYO Drinks$
Filtered Water
Venue Offers Catering$

Audio Visual Equipment (AV)

Microphone
TV

Other Amenities & Extras

Accessible
Accommodation$
Air Con
Dance Floor
External Music or DJ
Furniture Hire
Lighting
Natural light
On-Site Parking$
Outdoor Space
Restroom
WiFi

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Mr Jeep

September 12, 2024

I ate here about a week ago on Wednesday on the 4th of September and it was great. Once I had arrived at roughly 7pm, I had to wait a few minutes to then be seated at a comfortable table. Once I sat down, the first few tacos took only a few minutes to come out and the chicken taco tasted delicious! They had other types of tacos such as sausage, fish, pork and a few other varieties. We also ordered the churros that came with a type of dark chocolate sauce and they came shortly after and they were tasty as well. They did add a 10% gratuity to our bill which I find uncommon for restaurants to do. Overall, a great restaurant to eat at once in a while and it’s also located a short walk from Central Station, making it really easy to get to from a variety of train lines.

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Genesis Horng

October 2, 2024

Cartel is absolutely incredible! The food is breathtaking, fantastic taste and fresh ingredients. Cocktails are great too, Is a unique experience!! The atmosphere is modern and cozy, the music it’s enjoyable, perfect for an evening with friends. Last but not least the staff it’s 10/10 Manu and Hector make my night always attentive and helpful. Without a doubt I will come again!!!!!

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Soroush Jafari

August 28, 2024

Tried most of their menu on a friday night. The drinks were good and exciting. The food was okay but not the best. Some were really oily and fatty. Staff were friendly but were not aware of some of the menus and couldn’t answer all the questions we had but they were nice and polite. We were sitting outside and it was a bit chilly and asked them to light up the heater but they said they are out gas which is really strange for a restaurant to be out of gasz

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Alex Chen

October 24, 2024

Very Dissapointing Experience :( We came here for the all you can eat tacos for $36 per person. How it works is that they bring around different flavours of Tacos to your table however we were seated at the back so before the tacos could reach us it would have run out. In a 1hr period we only got 2 tacos. It was only until one of the wait staff checked in with us when they ensured tacos were reaching our table. The restruant was fairly busy and so were the staff. Tacos them selves were quite good, it was just a very disappointing experience because it took so long for the tacos to come.

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Steffany XY

March 30, 2024

Went with friends for their Taco Tuesdays AYCE experience. The tacos were overall pretty great! My personal favourite is their fish taco, but we also really liked the beef brisket, pork and mushroom tacos as well. Our only complaint is that we were given a time limit of 1.5 hours to eat unlimited tacos, but we found that after around 45min-50min the waiters stopped coming to our table, so there was a decent period of time (~30min) where we didn’t eat any tacos at all. A waiter then came to our table 15min before our time was up to ask if we were ready to pay now or if we wanted to go for another 1.5 hours. We did ask about the tacos at this point and were offered some tacos after that, but we thought it was strange that we had to ask first in order to get them coming past our table again, considering we are paying for an AYCE experience that should go on for 1.5 hours.


Venue Hours

MondayClosed
Tuesday08:00am-Midnight
Wednesday08:00am-Midnight
Thursday08:00am-Midnight
Friday08:00am-Midnight
Saturday08:00am-Midnight
Sunday08:00am-Midnight
Pricing Price on request

Event Types

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