The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Pub Guide has announced the winners in their 2014 edition. We recently highlighted just how good the Woolwich Pier Hotel’s renovations were (and how tasty the new food offering is), so its good to see those efforts being rewarded, with the hotel taking out the best pub award this year.
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This month’s bumper issue is now live in the App Store! We’ve got the big 2013 Bar Awards Winners edition, and it’s the first time we’ve put someone on the cover — and who better to grace the cover than this year’s winner of the Bartender of the Year sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club, Mr Sean Chow.
On his recent trip to Australia for Sydney Bar Week, Cocktail Kingdom founder Greg Boehm said that his new bar, Golden Cadillac, is opening soon.
Two bars from Northbridge in Perth — Mechanics Institute and Ezra Pound — have taken out the top gongs at the Small Bar Association of WA’s Small Bar of the Year Awards 2013.
With the bar boom in full swing there’s never been a better time for access to new hooch, with the arrival of new distributor Icon Beverages on to the scene. “Our desire is to build a portfolio of brands that offer consumers and customers something truly unique and enjoyable,” said Icon Beverages owner Manuel Bonnici. “Each of the brands we have chosen does this.”
It’s a widespread and much loved end to the night. You shut the doors, close the bar and then crack a beer for staffies. But, in NSW at least, you could be breaking the law.
Sydney pub operators Drink ‘n’ Dine will this week throw open the doors to their new venue above the Norfolk Hotel, House of Crabs — described as “part crab shack, part dive bar, part Coyote ugly on acid.”
“What? No. We can’t stop here. This is bat country.”
Those words of Raoul Duke — Hunter S. Thompson’s fictional literary alter ego — open the 1998 movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and have inspired the name of a new bar opening in Randwick: Bat Country.
A new bar in Bondi hopes to cash in on the popularity of the primal agave spirit, mezcal. They’ve got on board ex-Cafe Pacifico and El Topo agave nut Brett Harris and the venue will be called Mr Moustache…
If you’ve read these pages over the last year or so you would know that the bar scene in Perth is on a roll, thanks in no small part to the role played by the new crop of small bars that have opened up.
Overnight in London Drinks International’s World 50 Best Bars 2013 was unveiled, with a strong showing for a number of Aussie bars. Melbourne’s The Black Pearl took out the title of Best Bar in Australasia and came in at number seven on the list, followed by The Baxter Inn at number 8…
Leeroy Petersen can now add the title of publican to his very crowded resume — and he’s working on bringing Louisiana-inspired eats to Paddington…