Can I have an umbrella in that?" asks the 30-something male in the new cocktail bar at the recently reopened Caledonian Hotel in Maitland. It's not something you would have heard in the knockabout blue-collar pub a few years ago.
But The Caly - as it's now known - has had a facelift. The poker machine room has been transformed into a cosy cocktail bar with velvet lounges and armchairs with an entire wall devoted to the list of 30-odd cocktails.
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