Month: February 2011

Stronger Glassware Available

Luigi Bormioli’s range of stronger, more resistant ‘Eden’ glassware has been released recently by Crown Commercial and is sure to live up to the rigors of daily bar ware and tear.

The Bar With No Vodka: Are we too cool for the great white spirit?

I feel sorry for the vodka companies. In the last few years there has been a serious backlash against what was until recently the world’s most distilled spirit (apparently that kudos now goes to Korean shochu). Whatever. It’s besides the point I’m trying to make. The return of the classic cocktail over the last decade has been the catalyst for this anti-vodka movement; at least in the highest temples of mixology.

Iconic Spirits Takes On New Vodka

Aivy Vodkas are characterised by their unique triple-flavoured profiles and this exclusive flavoured vodka concept has enjoyed great success in Sweden.

The Widow Clicquot

As wine experts in Europe taste bottles of Veuve Clicquot that are almost 200 years old it is fitting to review a book that pays homage to one of the greatest surviving Champagne Houses; The House of Clicquot. Tilar Mazzeo has made it her life’s ambition to unearth the history, secrets and developments of this iconic brand, managing to create a wonderfully enriching history that outlines the rise of a ‘powerhouse femme’ throughout years of turmoil and uncertainty.

Pony, Neutral Bay

With the reigns griped low and the stirrups high, the team at Pony Dining has raced across the bridge in de groot fashion and opened their new venue in style.

Forbo Flotex Floor Covers

Forbo Flooring Systems has a product that is ‘ideal for hospitality venues’. A hard-wearing, easy clean vinyl based product, Forbo Flotex, is a textured surface that looks and feels like carpet but without the certain drawbacks that come with having the real thing.

Bar Felix

Bar Felix 320-330 George Street Sydney www.merivale.com.au This new bar was featured in the January…

Upsynth’s New Vodka Addition

Originating in Eastern Europe, Monopolowa is a distinctive potato vodka. It is produced using a traditional formula by the Baczewski/ Gessler family, who were purveyors to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in its day.

The Internationalist

Not long ago, while sailing on the electric Interweb, a wee notice caught my eye. Among the many other internet advertisments promising to enlarge (or reduce) parts of my body I myself consider to be perfectly formed and correctly proportioned, this one was about a spirits competition.

Norfolk Hotel

James Miller and James Wirth have certainly made another good move on the Sydney bar scene with this latest opening coming ‘on-line’ just as 2010 came to an end. A short walk from Central Station and within a stones throw of venues like the Sydney Football Stadium and the Belvoir St Theatre to name a couple, The Norfolk Hotel is providing Surry Hills with a great option for a night out.

San Francisco: Libationary and Culinary Adventures in the City by the Bay

This was to be my first great American adventure. San Francisco, fog city, the city by the bay – whatever you want to call it – offers the libationary motivated traveller a great introduction into American drinks culture. I travelled to this fine city back in July 2010 – en route to the epic gathering of cocktailians that is The Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans.