Walkabout & Surfer's Paradise (bar & club)
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Walkabout (or sometimes The Walkabout) is a chain of Australian themed bars operating in the UK. The brand is owned by Regent Inns, owner of the Bar Risa/Jongleurs chain. There are 50 Walkabout venues in the UK compromising of 48 pubs, 3 hotels, 1 backpackers and 1 nightclub. To keep with the Australian theme, many of the barstaff employed at Walkabout Inns are Australian.
Walkabout Inns also serve food. Their menu offers Australian-themed foods such as Kangaroo Burgers and steaks, as well as Springbok meat from South Africa
[edit] Dual branded nightclubs
Similarly to the Bar Risa/Jongleurs chain, most Walkabouts offer a dual branded nightclub/late licenced leisure experience with another nightclub operating in the same building, for example The Limelight in Shaftesbury Avenue. With this set up the two parts can be operated as separate entities or together, normally with Walkabout playing cheese or hosting live bands and the other club playing harder dance music. The most recent of these is the newly opened Walkabout in Leicester which opened in the old Bar Risa site.
Walkabouts which are twinned with a Jongleurs Comedy Club include; Edinburgh, Leicester and Glasgow, a new Jongleurs is expected to open above the Manchester Walkabout sometime in 2007.
