Irish Spice Bag at Archive Beer Boutique

Overview

There's a good chance you've heard about spice bags by now, with this culinary masterpiece popping up on menus across town. Emerging in the mid-2000s, its greasy, spicy, salty combination emerged from Dublin's Chinese restaurants and has increasingly gained a cult following on our shores in recent times.

Yet to discover its charms? Archive Beer Boutique in the West End is now serving an Irish Spice Bag for your dining pleasure. Loaded with crispy chicken bites, golden chips, stacks of spices, and fresh capsicum and onion, this steaming bag of goodness goes down a treat with the venue's wide selection of craft beers.

Priced at $23, it's available on Archive Beer's specials board throughout the week before moving to the late-night-only menu after 9.30pm. Meanwhile, if you're keen to add even more kick to each bite, the kitchen recommends slathering the whole thing in their sweet-and-spicy Thai sauce.

Archive's buzzing late-night atmosphere is ripe for a spice bag, usually best paired with a big night out and a few too many drinks. Once the hangover is really starting to kick in, you might even find yourself going for a second round the next day.