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A hotel bar gilt with talent

The QT hotel brand has opened their Sydney flagship location, complete with three high-quality bars over different floors and some significant Sydney talent. The emphasis on quality extends further than just your usual hotel bar fare, with the team using house-made ingredients where possible.

Eau de Vie’s Max Greco goes solo

Max Greco from Sydney’s award winning cocktail bar Eau De Vie (Cocktail bar of the Year at the 2012 Australian Bar Awards), is going solo by opening his own venture in Surry Hills. Little House, as the venue will be called, is set to be a rock ‘n’ roll cocktail bar taking over the site that currently houses South American restaurant Boteco (421 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills).

Wellington’s Matterhorn maestro moves to Melbourne

Here’s an opening that we’re looking forward to. One of New Zealand’s finest talents, Christian McCabe, has made the move across the ditch to Melbourne to open a bar that is a mix of drinking and dining. “After looking in many places and abandoning a project or two we have finally managed to secure a site in Carlton,” said McCabe about the new site where the former one-hat diner, Embrasse used to stand.

Ex-pat Aussies’ win in NOLA

We caught up with the ex-pat Aussie running the World’s Best New Cocktail Bar.

Perth gets a little Varnish

Award-winning operator of Luxe Bar, Andy Freeman, is set to spruce up the streets of Perth’s CBD.