Birthday Party Venues in Abbotsford

A banana-yellow steel bar, jungle-print wallpaper and booths looking down through a six-metre void onto the pub below – that is the setting for a birthday at Level One Bar @ Terminus Hotel, upstairs at 605 Victoria St, Abbotsford.

The Terminus Hotel, known locally as the Termo, has been pouring beers on Victoria Street since 1866. Its first-floor party room is styled after a 1920s Paris drinking den and can be booked privately, so a 30th or 40th gets a room of its own rather than a corner of the public bar.

What the upstairs bar brings to a birthday:

• Guest list: up to 120 for a cocktail-style party, or 50 seated for a sit-down dinner with speeches.
• Dancing: a dance floor sits in the room, so the night can move from toasts to music without changing rooms.
• Food: canapé packages from $37 per person, with grazing tables and platters on top.
• Sitting down instead: two-course seated menus suit a family-style birthday dinner.
• Extra space: the team can extend the party onto the balcony when the guest list grows.

Cakes can be arranged through the venue, and the bar tab is one you set and review on the night – handy when parents are shouting a milestone and want to keep an eye on the total.