The Waterside Hotel in Melbourne is one of those classic Australian pubs with a long history — it first opened as the Mercantile in 1853 — and it has been given a new lease on life with new owners the Sand Hill Road group.
Month: October 2017
Tio’s goes on tour to Mexico — here’s what a dream trip to the home of mezcal looks like.
‘They put them in galvanised iron huts as cold as an ice chest in winter.’ The little-known story behind Australia’s sugar trade.
Savile Row: the latest bar from Martin Lange is fighting the good fight in Fortitude Valley.
At the end of the day, the Daiquiri is a three ingredient drink. Surely it takes more skill to balance a drink with more ingredients? How about a tiki drink like this Scorpion Bowl, which brings together dark rum, cognac, and gin?
Sitting on Enmore Road in Enmore, between Queens Hotel and the Enmore Theatre, Jacoby’s Tiki Bar is the neighbourhood tiki bar you’ve always needed but never knew you did.
Sydney’s latest Mexican restaurant, Chula comes from an ownership duo who know what they’re talking about when it comes to the flavours of Mexico.
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?
First you take a pineapple, then you juice it — pineapple paper awaits. When Tom Egerton posted on social media his efforts to make a delicious, edible, pineapple paper from the leftovers of freshly juiced pineapples, we hassled him for his recipe.
20 years ago, on November 4 1997, there was a bar opening that was both ahead of its time and a callback to a place lost to time: Melbourne’s Gin Palace.
Nils Boese’s bar is owned, operated and staffed solely by himself, has no menus, and is closed whenever he’s out of town. He’s got no contract — which is how likes it — but is the unofficial Jägermeister Global Brand Ambassador, and is clearly doing things his own way.
Now in its second year, Enter The Dragon broadened its scope to include not only Australian hopefuls but New Zealand’s elite, making this a truly trans-Tasman competition. Competitors were also tasked with using Australian native flavours in their cocktail creations.