Still Working Bar is a neighbourhood bar at 13 Lynden Court in Chartwell, Hamilton, rated 4.3 from 91 Google reviews. Reviewers single out the friendly, attentive staff, praise the thin-crust wood-fired pizza, and bring up the karaoke, pool table and pokies often.
A good suburban bar earns its keep as a local living room, and the tells are easy to read: a kitchen cooking proper food rather than reheating bar snacks, staff who remember faces, and a room kept tidy deep into the evening. A wood-fired oven in particular lifts the whole visit — a light, crisp base is the surest sign the kitchen cares — while a pool table fills the lulls and karaoke nights give the neighbourhood its stage. Regulars tend to learn the rhythm of the week quickly and arrive early on the lively nights.
In suburban Chartwell, Still Working Bar reads as exactly the kind of well-kept local its reviewers describe.