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Christchurch hospitality institution Fat Eddie's reopens with champagne shower

Thursday, 7 September 2017

A restaurant, a cocktail bar and Fat Eddie's jazz bar are opening in a week on Christchurch's old strip.

A champagne shower has heralded the reopening of a Christchurch hospitality institution. 

Fat Eddie's jazz and blues bar launched with a VIP party on Thursday night, along with restaurant Original Sin and 1930s-themed cocktail bar Kong.

The new building is on the corner of Oxford Tce and Hereford St – known as The Strip before the earthquakes.

Property developer Richard Peebles and Oxford Management Service co-owners Max Bremner and Darryll Park launch Fat Eddie
Property developer Richard Peebles and Oxford Management Service co-owners Max Bremner and Darryll Park launch Fat Eddie's with a champagne shower.

All three venues are owned by hospitality operators Max Bremner and Darryll Park.

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Christchurch hospitality staple Fat Eddies has resurrected in the newly erected building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Hereford street.
Christchurch hospitality staple Fat Eddies has resurrected in the newly erected building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Hereford street.

* Fat Eddie's, plus new restaurant and cocktail bar, about to open on Christchurch's old Strip

Original Sin has an Adam and Eve themed mural created in metal.
Original Sin has an Adam and Eve themed mural created in metal.

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Bremner said the opening was the start of 'relaunching hospitality big time in the city'.

'This area of town could actually end up being a premiere hospitality district in the whole country.'

Fat Eddie's was a Christchurch staple before it was knocked out of Sol Square during the Christchurch earthquakes.