80s Summer Cocktail Party

Overview

Cloudland is throwing a cocktail party. It's also a Cocktail party, too. There'll be plenty of creative boozy concoctions on the menu, as well as an 80s vibe inspired by a very fitting Tom Cruise movie.

If you haven't experienced Cocktail, the 1988 flick, it features Cruise as a business student by day, bartender by night — with Aussie legend Bryan Brown playing his mentor. The pair become quite the beverage-slinging hit, and dream about opening their own establishment called Cocktails & Dreams. There's more to it than that, of course, including The Beach Boys' hit 'Kokomo' on the soundtrack.

Whether you consider the film an 80s gem or you've never heard of it until now, Cloudland is using Cocktail as its theme from 8pm on Friday, January 25. You'll want to get there fast and then take it slow — and enjoy pop-up bartending shows, live music and plenty of 80s-inspired fashion. Yes, that's the dress code.

Two types of tickets are available. You can enter for free and buy your booze as you go, or pay $75 for a three-hour food and drinks package. Either way, prepare for plenty of retro cocktails, Hawaiian outfits, neon and big hair.