ext in our series of tips and advice from this year’s stellar Top 8 comes Queensland’s Kal Moore, who this year entered the Top 8 for the fifth time.
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“My old man’s a head chef, so hospitality’s always been in the family; even if it is the angry chef side of the industry!” Meet Ryan Snedden from PS40.
Next in our series of tips and advice from this year’s stellar Top 8 comes Priscilla Leong from The Baxter Inn, one of the world’s best bars and this year’s Bar of the Year.
‘I’d never stood on stage in front of that many people.’ Tom Loosli shares his advice from the Top 8
Thomas Loosli gives some solid advice for competing on stage and keeping calm, and given that he knocked his Bartender of the Year performance out of the park this year, it’s advice worth paying attention to.
We knew already that Irvine has a way with drinks — the Pastis Fizz he created for Restaurant Hubert was just about our favourite drink of 2016 — but it was his off the cuff banter on stage whilst presenting his drinks in front of 600 people at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards that saw him as a crowd favourite for the competition.
Jonothan Carr offers some tips for the Bartender of the Year competition and shares some insight into what it was like to be on stage for the final round.
The competition in the 2017 Bartender of the Year sponsored by BACARDÍ & De Kuyper was closer than it’s ever been this year. At the end of three gruelling rounds of competition, one new entrant joins the Bartender of the Year club: Mr Daniel Gregory.
This weekend, they’ll be hosting their first session interstate, when Coleman’s Academy lands in Melbourne on Sunday.
Hailing from Perth, Kieran Lee is the quiet, unassuming guy you’ll find behind the bar at The Barber Shop; he’s the one surveying the scene and getting what needs to be done, done. But the guy knows his drinks, and — given the Gin Bar of the Year stocks some 500 types — he also knows his gin.
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It’s hard to overstate this guy’s importance for tiki bars: Jeff Berry literally wrote the books on tiki. Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari is required reading, if you ask us, as is his Potions of the Caribbean.
Stuart Morrow has an enviable gig as the general manager of the award-winning Sydney bar, The Baxter Inn. But given that the bar figures each year in the World’s 50 Best and has won accolades galore, how do you a bar like this at the top its game?