Led by the team that runs Sydney’s iconic Lansdowne Hotel, The Shaking Hand, known by locals as Shakes, is set to be Canberra’s next great live music establishment, taking over the Akuna Street basement site that housed Transit Bar until 2020.
New Bars
New Bars
What do you get when you take a couple of boys from the big smoke and send them down the coast to the Mornington Peninsula? A great combination of warm and friendly hospitality, an impressive range of beers and whiskey, classic American bar food, and toe-tappin’ country tunes from the jukebox.
Odd Culture Group to launch in Melbourne & Open ‘Odd Culture’ on Fitzroy’s Brunswick Street this May
The group will open a unique iteration of its Newtown venue, Odd Culture – a bar and bottle shop in one located on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy led by General Manager and Melbourne hospo legend, Gerry Nass.
There are three distinct spaces housed in a two-storey building on Newtown’s bustling King Street. The General Store, a 12-seater tropical speakeasy cocktail bar backing onto a cosy courtyard and an upstairs bar slated to open later in the year.
If there’s one song that you think of when you think of Maybe Sammy, it would have to be ‘Tequila’, complimented by the in-house brass. So it’s no real surprise that for the group’s fifth outing that they would open a Mexican Cantina with Tequila at the fore.
Vermuteria is an old-school European aperitif wine bar and delicatessen with a big focus on vermouth and sherry.
This pocket-size, walk-in only wine bar in Surry Hills was Inspired by some of the world’s most iconic wine bars such as London’s Sager + Wilde.
Andy Chu & One or Two: The journey From Royal Dornoch in Scotland to some of Melbourne’s finest bars
“Hospitality, for a while now, has forgotten to say ‘no’, especially through Covid times…my aim is to be a small bar that people are coming to for a reason. You wouldn’t go to a pizza shop and ask for the best Indian rice they have. I have to pick what I can do, and provide quality over quantity.”
Acclaimed chef and restaurateur Shane Delia’s latest hospitality venture, Jayda, an opulent cocktail bar opening this November.
Mae Mabel; a cocktail lounge with a 70s living room feel (but a little bit fancier), serving classic cocktails and spinning a sleek and sexy mix of soul, funk and retro tunes.
Sydney nightlife icon, The Abercrombie, is now open. Bigger and better, the multi-level heritage-listed space has undergone an incredible transformation with three venues now under the one roof to create one big party palace.
In partnership with a food scientist the cocktail list is completely local, sustainable and consistent, including signature cocktails such as the Wattle Seed Negroni and the Eucalyptus Smoked Margarita.