Led by the team that runs Sydney’s iconic Lansdowne Hotel, The Shaking Hand, known by locals as Shakes, is set to be Canberra’s next great live music establishment, taking over the Akuna Street basement site that housed Transit Bar until 2020.
Odd Culture Group to launch in Melbourne & Open ‘Odd Culture’ on Fitzroy’s Brunswick Street this May
The group will open a unique iteration of its Newtown venue, Odd Culture – a bar and bottle shop in one located on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy led by General Manager and Melbourne hospo legend, Gerry Nass.
There are three distinct spaces housed in a two-storey building on Newtown’s bustling King Street. The General Store, a 12-seater tropical speakeasy cocktail bar backing onto a cosy courtyard and an upstairs bar slated to open later in the year.
I love to start the day by setting myself and my team up for success. I make sure the bar is stocked up and well-equipped for a busy service. Depending on the day, it’s usually docket after docket after docket, yelling “drink’s up!” It’s hectic, but in the best possible way.
Fast forward 20 years and when asked what he thought was one of the greatest changes in the New York bar scene he had helped revitalise, cocktail legend Dale DeGroff replied: “the growth of the bar team”.
Shanghai is still undisputedly the cocktail capital of China with EPIC named Bar of the Year and Allen Fang (The Nest/Dreamsicle) named Bartender of the Year.
It’s International Women’s Day today, so let’s take a moment to acknowledge the wonderful women…
In the face of no government support and in a desperate attempt to support his staff, Jean Trinh suggested that they vacate their apartments and move 800 miles into the Colombian hinterlands…
Voting for the Bar Awards 2023 is now open and we really want you to get involved. These awards are determined by your votes. Voting closes 31 May (11.59PM AEST) so tell your staff and your hospo friends to vote now.
Voting for the Bar Awards 2023 opens on Wednesday 1st March at australianbartender.com.au and we really want you to get involved. These awards are determined by your votes. Voting closes 31 May, so tell your staff and your hospo friends.
If there’s one song that you think of when you think of Maybe Sammy, it would have to be ‘Tequila’, complimented by the in-house brass. So it’s no real surprise that for the group’s fifth outing that they would open a Mexican Cantina with Tequila at the fore.
Vermuteria is an old-school European aperitif wine bar and delicatessen with a big focus on vermouth and sherry.