We knew already that Irvine has a way with drinks — the Pastis Fizz he created for Restaurant Hubert was just about our favourite drink of 2016 — but it was his off the cuff banter on stage whilst presenting his drinks in front of 600 people at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards that saw him as a crowd favourite for the competition.
Two Baxter Inn alumni have just launched the new Sydney ice supply company Bare Bones Ice Co.
Jonothan Carr offers some tips for the Bartender of the Year competition and shares some insight into what it was like to be on stage for the final round.
Summer officially begins next week, on Friday December 1st, and that means sun, beaches, and if you’re lucky, some proper tiki action. In fact, if you’re in Sydney’s CBD, you’ll definitely be getting some tikiness in your cup when new Sydney tiki popup, Lost Luau opens on Friday.
The competition in the 2017 Bartender of the Year sponsored by BACARDÍ & De Kuyper was closer than it’s ever been this year. At the end of three gruelling rounds of competition, one new entrant joins the Bartender of the Year club: Mr Daniel Gregory.
After the Top 8 round in front of 600 of the industry’s finest, only one was crowned the Bartender of the Year: Mr Daniel Gregory from Brisbane.
Andy Ricker is a US chef who’s spent his career travelling back and forth to Thailand, and here he details the best drinking food — and the drinks to go with them — that he’s found along the way.
With gin popping up from distilleries across the globe, the cast of botanicals on display goes well beyond the juniper, coriander, citrus peel and angelica combo so often seen.
If you don’t like bourbon this Mint Julep recipe may not be for you, but this simple combination of bourbon, sugar, mint and ice is no pushover.
Some cocktails are perfect for when you’re sweating it out in the sun; this Kentucky Buck recipe is one such drink.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a cocktail named after artillery used in the first world war would clobber your palate, but if it’s made just so, there’s few things more elegant than the French 75.
Beneath Driver Lane is a new Melbourne bar that’s just opened from Hamish Goonetilleke, the guy behind Fitzroy’s Rum Diary Bar and Rum Diary Spiced Rum.