There’s been a lot of news from the Maybe Sammy & Frank teams in the past couple of months and it’s not over. Today they announced the launch of Sammy Junior a brand new espresso bar bar day and cocktail bar by night.
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“Food waste costs our economy $20 billion a year – more than five-million tonnes of food ends up in landfill; one in five bags of groceries winds up in the bin. At RE-, we’ll showcase this through our bar program, but also build a platform geared towards change on a global level. The time is now.” – Matt Whiley
The sun is shining across Australia, the beaches are beginning to (safely) welcome more visitors and glasses full of one of Italy’s most famous Aperitivo drinks are being shared amongst friends to celebrate the new season. Needless to say, it’s time for an Aperol Spritz!
The Speakeasy Group have joined forces with two of their staff to support them opening their own venue. So watch out as Perryn Collier and Alex Boon are set to open the doors to Pearl Diver Cocktails & Oysters come 2021.
It’s with great excitement that today we can announce that two new brands have stepped up as the official sponsors of the 2021 Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year competition – Hendrick’s and Monkey Shoulder and the winner of the competition will be flown to Scotland in 2022.
Bobeche is and always has been hallowed ground to me, it was one of the first cocktail focused small bars in Perth that blew my mind with its offering and it still retains the same level of integrity and finesse that I experienced years ago.
Diageo World Class Bartender of the Year returns in 2021, with entries to the Australian competition open from 1 January. The Australian winner will compete in the Global Finals, where a new World Class Global Bartender of the Year will be crowned in a unique multi-format event hosted in Madrid, Spain from 5-8th July 2021.
For the first time there were ‘back to back winners’ in the category Best Bartender including Hampus Thunholm (Sweden) and Harry Bell (Denmark). The best cocktail bars in the Nordics went to A Bar Called Gemma (Sweden), Pier 42 (Norway), Gensyn (Denmark), Chihuahua Julep (Finland) and Jungle Cocktail Bar (Iceland).
Amongst the flurry of new whisky releases from distilleries across the country, one that is attracting a fair amount of interest is the Ascension release from Lawrenny Estate Distillery
Little Prince Wine opened quietly onto Melbourne’s hospitality scene on the first day of Lockdown 2.0, and has been moonlighting as a neighbourhood coffee haunt, bottle shop and gourmet grocer ever since. But now it will operate as it was always intended; a chic European inspired wine bar.
“The main rule is to watch the door at all times and make sure every single person is greeted, and also every single person once they leave they say goodbye and thanks.”
Procera gin was founded with a dream to bring the very best of Africa to the world. Proudly distilled in Nairobi, Kenya, at 1638 metres above sea level, it’s the world’s first gin to use Juniperus Procera, which is harvested just 70 kilometres from the distillery.