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Silent Night...Yeah Right!

Eat, drink and throw your crew a much-needed Christmas party to remember (or forget, as appropriate).

• Christmas party packages from just $25pp
  
  
• Book on Sun-Wed and we'll give you an extra $5pp to spend on food or beverage. See our T&Cs below for more info.
  
  
• Get $1 back for every $10 you spend with Joylab Rewards

Find your perfect Christmas party package right here:

• Basalt, Howick
• Coops Corner Pub, Viaduct Harbour
• Five Knots, Mission Bay
• Franc's Bar & Diner, Takapuna
• Garrison, Mt. Wellington
• Goode Brothers, Botany, New Lynn & NorthWest
• Mama Loco, Albany
• Moretons, St Heliers
• Regatta Bar & Eatery, Takapuna
• Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen, Freeman's Bay
• The Elephant Wrestler, Takapuna
• The Flying Moa, Mt. Wellington
• The Lula Inn, Viaduct Harbour
• The Merchant Pub, Albany
• The Postman's Leg, Glenfield
• The Zookeeper's Son, Royal Oak

Not sure what you're after? No worries, enquire below and one of our joyful events team members will help you find the perfect spot this Christmas.

Get ready for the hottest day in Auckland City at NZ's Fifth Annual Hot Sauce Festival!

Packing more punch than ever before, join like-minded chilli heads taste your way around an array of top-notch hot sauces from New Zealand and beyond before watching the NZ Chilli Eating Comp Final take place on the big stage!

Turn up the heat and get amongst our special Hot Sauce Festival street eats, and when things get too hot, save your taste buds with our award-winning craft beer brewed right here on-site. PLUS enjoy live music from Brotherhood Musiq all day!

HOT SAUCE BRANDS:
Fire Dragon Chillies
Red Hot Kiwi Company
Jolokia Farm
K Pow! Hot Sauce
Huffmans Crafty Sauces
Al’s Laboratory
Blood Shot
Morepork BBQ
Spicy Boys
BBQ BOI
Emoyeni Products
Wild West Worcester

Homemade Hot Sauce Comp - If you think you've got a hot sauce recipe that's better than the rest, bring yours along and enter into our Homemade Hotsauce Competition. Entries close at 2pm and judging commences at 4pm. Winner announced at 5pm.

TICKETS
$10 from Eventfinda. Grab yours now!

The big race is just around the corner so it's time to get ready and book your spot at one of Auckland's premier Melbourne Cup Day events.

With fantastic dining courses on offer, live George FM DJ sets at the ready and plenty of G.H Mumm on ice, this is one day you don't want to miss.

Here’s what’s on at our leading Melbourne Cup hotspots:

• Regatta Bar & Eatery,, Main Beach, Takapuna
  
• The Lula Inn, Viaduct Harbour, CBD

Looking for something a little low-key? The Melbourne cup will be playing all day at these establishments:

• Coops Corner Pub, Viaduct Harbour
• The Postman's Leg, Downing St, Glenfield
• The Zookeeper's Son, Mt Albert Road, Royal Oak
• The Flying Moa, Lunn Ave, Mt Wellington
• Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen, Sales St, Freemans Bay
• Moretons, Tamaki Drive, St Heliers
• Garrison Public House, Sylvia Park, Mt Wellington

It's been 400 long days since our boys in black played on home soil, which means it's time to head to your local, grab yourself a cold one and join us as we watch the games live and LOUD.

Sunday 11 October - 4pm
Sunday 18 October - 4pm

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We're showing the games at all establishments except Franc's, Mama Loco and The Lula Inn.

Check out our favourite reasons to ditch home for the rugby below.

• All establishments - $25 Export Gold Jugs
• Garrison, Sylvia Park - Half price kids meals from 4pm, one meal per child
• The Flying Moa, Mt Wellington - $25 for 1kg mussels & garlic bread
• The Zookeeper's Son, Royal Oak - 4 for $30 Heineken bottles
• Sweat Shop, Auckland City - $10 pizzas from 2pm
• Coops, Viaduct - Kids eat free from 2pm, one meal per adult meal
  
• Goode Brothers, New Lynn, NorthWest, Botany - Kids eat free 12-4pm, one meal per adult meal
  
• Basalt - 4 for $25 Heineken bottles
• The Postman's Leg - Renegades Band before the game, kids bouncy castle and face painting
  

You don’t have to hit the right notes. But the right moves… you better bring ‘em.

Our Takapuna famous Lip Sync Battle returns this spring, bigger and better than ever before!

Partnering with ZM and hosted by NZ Drag Queen Icon Miss Ribena, we'll be bringing you a night where you can unleash your inner superstar, so get up there and work it, twerk it, give it all you got.

1st place - $1,000
2nd place - $500
3rd place - $250
Crowd fave - $250

Saturday 14 November, from 7pm
Please note, this event event date has been moved from the original date of Sat 7th November

Enter now by filling out the form or book your spot in the crowd below!

We've partnered with our mates at Coca-Cola this October, who are lending a hand to the hospitality industry and treating Kiwis to a free non-alcoholic beverage of your choice.

To get involved, simply text “ENJOY” to 345, register your details and choose a participating bar to receive a voucher for 1 x free non-alcoholic beverage from the Coca-Cola range (Coke, Coke No Sugar, Sprite or Schweppes.). Limit one use per day - a new code is required to redeem on alternative days.

Participating Joylab establishments include:
Sweat Shop, Auckland City
The Lula Inn, Viaduct
Coops, Viaduct
Moretons, St Heliers
Franc's, Takapuna
The Merchant, Albany
The Postman's Leg, Glenfield
Basalt, Howick
Garrison, Sylvia Park
The Gipsy Moth, Domestic Airport
Goode Brothers, Botany, New Lynn & NorthWest
The Zookeeper's Son, Royal Oak

For full terms, visit the Coke website below.

It’s time to dig under your car seat, dive into the depths of your couch and find that precious little gold coin for Sweat Shop's Dollar Dog Wednesdays!

Every Wednesday from 5pm we'll be serving up classic American style hot dogs for only $1. There's a limit to five hot dogs per drink, but by then you’ll probably need another beverage to wash down all the deliciousness.

Coops Super Quiz is back!

At Coops we like things super, so it's no surprise that we're making our weekly quiz super too.

This is no average pub quiz. Expect a quiz that's bigger and bolder than the rest, with bonus games chucked in to shake things up a bit. If the games don't shake you, our epic frozen margaritas are sure to do the trick. Go easy, tiger.

Put your crew to the test and book your table now.

Every Tuesday at 7pm

Dress your best (or worst) and get yourself down to Basalt this Halloween!

👻 DJs from 9pm - upstairs and downstairs
👻 Twisted Fairy Tale theme
👻 Best dressed prizes for singles and couples - Basalt vouchers - 1st $100 | 2nd $70 | 3rd $50
👻 Special cocktails on the night - Cinderella (vodka) | Merida (whisky) & Ariel (tequila)

9PM-LATE // FREE ENTRY

First in, best dressed!

How much fried chicken can you devour? Find out for yourself at The Elephant Wrestler's Bottomless Beer, Bubbles & Fried Chicken night!

For just $45, you can eat as much fried chicken as your heart desires, along with bottomless Export Gold or Prosecco for 2 hours! You might need your stretchy pants for this one.

2-hour package starts at either; 7pm, 7:30pm or 8pm.

Bookings essential, maximum group size of 12 people.
Please note this is an R18 event only. No children or guests under 18 are permitted to attend.

Please ensure you have read The Elephant Wrestler's Bottomless Fried Chicken, Beer & Bubbles Terms & Conditions below before making your booking.

Auckland’s Original Bottomless Brunch ~ $47.5

Here at Lula's we've grown quite fond of that delicious weekend in-betweeny meal – not quite breakfast, not quite lunch - but the perfect excuse to fuel up for the day while still indulging a little (or a lot). Brunch has really become our favourite meal(s) of the day and we've improved it with bottomless daytime-appropriate mocktails, bubbly and cocktails.

Bookings essential, maximum group size of 12 people.
Please note this is an R18 event only. No children or guests under 18 are permitted to attend.

Please ensure you have read Lula's Bottomless Brunch Terms & Conditions below before making your booking.

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Gift Cards
Give a loved one the gift of joy with a Joylab gift card which can be used for Lula's Bottomless Brunch or any other occasion at our 20+ establishments across Auckland. Grab yours here or head into any of our establishments to pick one up, ready to go in an instant.

Grab a few beers and put all of your weird, wonderful and totally useless facts to good use at one of our weekly Quiz Nights across Auckland.

With $25 Export Gold Jugs and great prizes up for grabs, it's the perfect excuse for a mid-week catch up with mates.

Find your local quiz night below:

Goode Brothers, New Lynn
Mondays, 7pm

Coops Corner Pub, Viaduct Harbour
Tuesdays, 7pm

The Zookeeper's Son, Royal Oak
Tuesdays, 7pm

The Flying Moa, Mt Wellington
Tuesdays, 7.30pm

The Elephant Wrestler, Takapuna
Tuesdays, 7pm

Moretons, St Heliers
Tuesdays, 7pm

The Postman's Leg, Glenfield
Wednesdays, 7pm

We're 8 years older, and sure to be a little wiser (yeah, right).

Celebrate The Postie's 8th Birthday with us this Sunday 8 November.

The bouncy castle will be up alongside face painting for the kids, plus live music with BOOM! BOOM! DELUXE from 2-5pm and drink specials for the big kids to get a little silly.

Bring the whole family to celebrate in the sunshine 🤞

Winter is officially here, and you know what that means? It's Sunday Roast season.

Chase away those winter blues and find your local Sunday Roast spot at one of our Joylab establishments below.

Basalt, Howick

Moretons, St Helliers

The Zookeepers Son, Royal Oak

The Postman's Leg, Glenfield

Rugby & Roast

Rugby & Roast at your local might just be the ultimate winter combo. Check out which Rugby League & Rugby Union games we have playing live at some of your favourite sports bars across Auckland below.

Bottomless brunch who?

Join us every Thursday evening for bottomless beer, bubbles and dumplings for just $47.50 per person.

MENU

• Bottomless Dumplings (includes meat + vegan options)
• Bottomless Export Gold OR prosecco
  

Too good to be true? How about we throw some tunes in the mix, with Lula's Jukebox Live turning up the tempo every Thursday as our band plays nothing but songs requested by YOU.

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Please ensure you have read Lula's Bottomless Beer, Bubbles & Dumplings Terms & Conditions below before making your booking.

90 minute package.
Bookings essential, maximum group size of 10 people.
Choice must be made between bottomless beer OR prosecco per person, not both.
Unfortunately we can not cater for gluten free guests as part of Lula's Bottomless Dumplings package, please speak to us if your guests are gluten free.
Available for a limited time only.

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Gift Cards
Give a loved one the gift of joy with a Joylab gift card which can be used for Lula's Bottomless Brunch or any other occasion at our 20+ establishments across Auckland. Grab yours here or head into any of our establishments to pick one up, ready to go in an instant.

While the way we connect with others may have been mixed, shaken and stirred for now, we wanted to keep the simplest of joys alive from home. We've figured out a way to get many of your favourite beverages delivered to your door all from one place, with contactless delivery to keep you safe.