Venues

Venues

Shaun Pattinson to open new ‘juke joint’

Shaun Pattinson, former owner and bartender of influential and award-winning Adelaide bar, Cushdy, is getting back behind the stick just in time for Adelaide’s Fringe festival. when he opens a popup bar called Roses & Rye.

The Bondi Junction bar inspired by the golden age

Billed as a small bar and restaurant that is inspired by “the golden age of cure-all elixirs” Spring Street Social is a home for cocktails, food and live music in Bondi Junction. They’re offering a big selection of craft beer, some inventive cocktails and a cracking Aussie and Kiwi wine list.

Sam Ross & Michael McIllroy on Attaboy & latex gloves

After 13 years in the space on Eldridge Street, Milk & Honey’s owner Sasha Petraske was looking for new digs: a bigger space for a new chapter in Milk & Honey’s life. And one that sparked a new life for the old space: life as Attaboy. We asked Ross and McIllroy how it came to be via email.

First Look: go inside The Oxford Tavern

2013 has been a busy year for the team at Drink & Dine: not only have they opened Sydney’s messy and delicious new crab shack, House of Crabs, they’ve taken over and renovated The Oxford Tavern.

A taste of sun-drenched Californian arrives

Open on a site which once housed a Japanese karaoke swingers club called Swing Box (we guess the clue was in the name) is the latest bar from Hamish Watts and Ben Carroll of the Applejack Hospitality Group.

Take a look at Brisbane’s Papa Jack’s

Well it’s an opening we’ve been waiting for all year and now the time has come. Papa Jack’s, the new bar from Marco and Emily Nunes (one half of the four owners who set up the influential Brisbane bar, Canvas) is open for business.

First Look: go inside new Sydney mezcal bar, Mr Moustache

We recently brought you the news that mezcal looks set to be the hit of the summer with the opening of Mr Moustache on Hall Street in Bondi, and at the weekend they opened their doors to the public. Australian Bartender popped by to take a look at what owners Regina Bueno Ros and Bildo Saravia have put together.

Sydney’s first small bar relaunches this week

Tatler can plausibly lay claim to a couple of Sydney firsts — it was perhaps the first Sydney small bar, and it enjoyed a reputation for being the most exclusive bar in Sydney with its clientele of regulars drawn from Sydney’s music, media and arts in-crowd.