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.
Month: January 2014
I recently held an employment day where I conducted over 25 interviews in one sitting. Afterwards I realised that there was a unique factor that linked all but three of the candidates: the existence of very obvious tattooing or body piercings.
There’s a new bar coming to Sydney’s CBD, in the basement level of the old Globe site.
The iPad edition of our January issue is now live in the App Store.
Sad news came out of London over Christmas, with the death of Martin Miller, co-founder of Martin Millers Gin.
He died of cancer on Christmas Eve, at the age of 67.
Sam Ross and Michael McIllroy of New York City bar, Attaboy, have been getting their Instagram on over the holidays with a series of photos suggesting rules for the festive period. Check out a selection of our favourites below — though we’re not sure what to make of the kissing scene between Ross and McIllroy (we think it was consensual) — and follow them on Instagram at @attaboy134.
Melbourne bar, Los Barbudos, has teamed up with Bacardi to host the first Bat-Ball League tournament, in which plenty of booze, baseball and BBQ will take place (along with a bunch of smack talk, we assume).
It’s risky business rating whiskies, but someone has to do it and Jim Murray can lay claim to being one of the most respected (and wordy) whisky writers in the world. And he had a lot to say about the Glenmorangie Ealanta which he rates in his 2014 Whisky Bible as the best in the world…
Chivas Regal’s global ambassador, Max Warner, was recently in Sydney hosting a tasting as part of Chivas’ Crafted For The Senses initiative. If you missed the tasting though, you’ll be pleased to know you can get all your whisky goodness on your iPad.
OK, so the temperature isn’t so cold as to have you breaking out the woodfires and hot poker, but here’s a Gløgg recipe that’s good for sharing whatever the weather, served either hot or cold.
Summer means that the annual boom in cider sales is upon us. Although it still accounts for just a small part of overall alcohol consumption in Australia, it is certainly on the way up, and ticks all the boxes of summer drinking: crisp, refreshing, sessionable stuff that will take you from the sunny afternoon to the stormy summer evening.
There’s a lot going on in Brazil. It’s one of the growing economic powerhouses of the world, it will host the Soccer World Cup in 2014 and then the big one, the Olympic games, will spread out across the country in 2016.
Not that Brazilians need much excuse to celebrate — they’ve kind of cornered the market in having a good time.