Launching on 4bars.com.au this month will be Bartender magazine’s inaugural Most Influential List- Australia’s first survey to determine who are the bars industry’s heroes; the movers and shakers.
The Suntory Cup, which is now into its 21st year of competition, is unique in the fact that it hunts for the best cocktail recipe of 2009 with drinks being judged on their own merits and not on the popularity or pull of the bartender who created them.
A new roadside inspired offering from the Ruby Rabbit team is the Big Rig Diner; an American style bar and eatery serving up hearty, top quality meals and beverages that satisfy both the toughest food critic and the truckie’s appetite.
Fancy staying in style at Sydney’s Swissotel over Sydney BarShow Week? Well simply post a comment below this article telling us about your fondest Sydney BarShow memories and you could earn yourself a room for four nights at the Swissotel over BarShow.
Opened in March this year in a derelict 108 year old building, Ellington Jazz Club (named after influential jazz figure Duke Ellington), is an intimate New York style live jazz venue with an upstairs modern cocktail bar and function areas.
Der Raum have announced the launch of their winter cocktail list and we thought we’d share with you some of their latest releases and stunning drinks photography.
Hotel Tivoli is the latest addition to the Preston Bar Group’s portfolio which includes Adelaide’s Union Hotel and Bar Cuba.
Designed as a ‘pick me up’ or hangover cure as, as the name suggests, the Corpse Reviver No. 2 is a once forgotten ‘classic’ that has returned from the land of the long dead cocktail with a vengeance. This well balanced beverage has a delicate harmony of flavours that is proving to be popular once again amongst the cocktailian set.
The Rees’ Government has announced that it will keep the controversial ‘2am Lockout’ measures in place, but has shown some willingness to work with publicans.
Grant Collins and the Zeta boys have transformed Zeta’s VIP Room to host several special “Vinatage Nights” over the remaining winter months until 9 August.
Germany will see the third gathering of its bar industry this October at Bar Convent Berlin. The most influentual bar show in Central Europe will see a great line-up of speakers again with whisky guru Dave Broom, Ritz legend Colin Field from Paris and the Japanese ‘master of ice’ Hidetsugu Ueno passing on their knowledge among others.