The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food website is reporting that Merivale’s Justin Hemmes is in the process of buying the Paddington Arms hotel
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With a new name and a renewed dedication to good times for a good cause, the former Parched March is back – as Bars March.
There’s a new spirits importer starting up in Australia: Noble Spirits. Owned and run by…
On the weekend, The New York Times has run a nice little look at the words, phrases and banter bartenders bandy about behind the bar.
Andy Freeman, fresh from the success of his Perth CBD bar Varnish on King, has told Australian Bartender that another bar is in the works.
It’s that time of year again folks. It’s time to start saving your tips, checking up on flights, booking your New Orleans hotels, because before you know it drinks will be flowing at the annual cocktail-a-palooza that is Tales of the Cocktail.
Amidst a thriving new venture (the House of Crabs above the Norfolk) and the success of their new pub, The Oxford Tavern in Petersham, Sydney publican group, Drink ‘N’ Dine, closed their successful venture at The Abercombie in January.
Uncle Mings has been open in Sydney’s York Street for nearly 20 months now, but thanks to surging interest in Japanese whisky and other Asian drinks, they’ve been seeing an increase in trade — so they keep adding to their collection of Japanese whisky…
These top training programs can give you more tools to work with, greater knowledge to share, and most of importantly — these programs will show you a good time in the process.
We talked to Giorgio de Maria, who owns Sydney’s 121BC Cantina and Enoteca and is one of the organisers for the 100 per cent volunteer-based, not-for-profit celebration of all things boozy and sustainable, Rootstock Sydney.
With leading bars in both Melbourne and Sydney, the guys from Eau de Vie certainly know a thing or two about cocktails. You can now get your hands on a bit of that knowledge by way of their new cocktail book, Shaken & Stirred, Flamed & Thrown: Cocktails Done the Eau de Vie Way.
Reckon you know your stuff? Well, why don’t you put it to the test in our first online quiz that draws from the Rookies Guide section of this month’s issue of Australian Bartender.