Sydney BarShow Week is just around the corner and the action packed event schedule is set to make for an entertaining week of festivities.
Month: August 2011
Squirreled away in Melbourne’s South Yarra residential district is the newly launched venue The Millswyn and its ‘secret’ hideaway cocktail bar, Bar 132.
The man behind Perth’s Hula Bula Bar and Deville’s Pad is set to unleash his notorious style and design flair on the unsuspecting Melbourne bar scene with the LuWow Bar.
That team from Tamborine Mountain Distillery are still at it and they have once again come up with a cracking product for all your cocktail mixing capabilities.
With the ‘very soft opening’ for family, friends and a few bartenders now long in the past, the Attic is settling in as the new kid on the block, albeit with a well known and protective older brother whose got a good reputation. The new addition to the much loved and sought after night spot Blackpearl has been as important to the staff as to their customers says owner Nastasha Conte, but it hasn’t been without it’s share of trails.
Along with knowing how to play barrelhouse piano or sing rowdy Irish songs knowing how to mix a few top-notch cocktails is a skill guaranteed to get a party started, writes David Wondrich.
With island2island recently adding to their Scotch whisky range comes GlenDronach, ‘a journey of rediscovery’. This is a whisky that’s sure to make a great addition to your bar, especially since the cooler nights are now descending.
The design principles of The Ludlow Formation incorporate the formation of small areas or pockets of drinking and dining activity, similar to a grotto (or cave). Melbourne’s new venue The Ludlow is a contemporary pub built on traditional principles, offering all the elements of a truly classic pub including; public bar and informal dining area, lounge bar and dining room.
This month Australian Bartender took some time out with a couple of Sydney-based bar entrepreneurs. With a string of successful bar businesses behind them James Wirth and James Miller are tackling some of the city’s forgotten gems and giving them a facelift so that they can be enjoyed by a whole new generation.
Angostura has announced that their Global Cocktail Challenge is set to become an annual event due to its increasing success on the Cocktail Competition circuit.
If Sussex Lane, Sydney hasn’t made it onto your radar just yet, get set to pick up something new and exciting. The last 12 months has seen this strip blossom into a CBD haven, brimming with small bars and cafes and becoming one of the newest and certainly more dynamic sites in town. Bolstering the ranks of the likes of Small Bar and Balcony Bar in this part of the world is Shirt Bar; one part café, one part bar service and one part retail shirt boutique mixed together and served straight up.
Whilst these Argentinean masters opened their south-American hotspot in 2010 the swanky cocktail area now coined Gardel’s Bar only got into top gear in April. The name pays respect to Argentina’s most famous tango musician and actor, the great Carlos Gardel who thrived in the 1930s, and the bar is another touch of class in one of Sydney’s newest and coolest restaurants.