This year’s official Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards after party will be held at the Abercrombie Hotel on Broadway, the latest venue from the dynamic operator duo of James Wirth and James Miller.
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This afternoon at theLoft Wondrich led 50 of the nation’s top bar enthusiasts through a ‘hands-on’ Cocktail Workshop that not only taught them how to make iconic drinks, such as the Mint Julep and the ‘Imroved’ cocktail, but also many of the wonderful stories that they are associated with.
Michael Delany Korabelnikova has launched The Bottom End in Melbourne which he describes as, “a hybrid venue pulling together disco, diner, cocktail bar and pub [all] at the dark end of Melbourne’s CBD.”
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Fraser Short has some exciting plans coming up with one of the CBD’s icon venues, The Brooklyn Hotel, set to undergo a revamp in the coming months.
Melbourne’s latest venue to come on line, The Everleigh, is the collaboration between Lauren Schell and Michael Madrusan (both ex Milk & Honey and Little Branch) and the owner of these two iconic venues, Sasha Petraske.
The man behind Perth’s Hula Bula Bar and Deville’s Pad is set to unleash his notorious style and design flair on the unsuspecting Melbourne bar scene with the LuWow Bar.
Voting for this year’s Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards has smashed all previous returning a record number of votes tallied for 2011! The count was tireless and numbers came a whopping 23 per cent higher than last year proving that this valuable industry initiative continues to be the focal point of the bar industry’s calendar.
Bartender magazine and 4bars are proud to announce an all new partnership for the Australian Bar Awards top award – the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year. In 2011, Diageo’s Reserve, have thrown their support behind Australia’s toughest bartending challenge and most coveted title.
Throughout January, 4bars.com ran a tongue in cheek survey for nominations on a range of ‘alternate’ bar awards categories; from Worst Toilet in a venue and Hottest Brand Rep to the best Bar Back.
Bartender Magazine’s Most Influential List
The voting for the Bartender Magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential List has just wrapped up. The nominated Top 50 for 2011 will be released in Bartender’s upcoming March edition. The inaugural Most Influential List event took off in 2009 with Vernon Chalker (Gin Palace and Madame Brussels, Melbourne) taking out the top spot. “It was a great honour to win,” said Chalker recently, “the greatest form of flattery is if others look to my work for inspiration.”