“It doesn’t have to be Cuban to be good,” declares Norman Stein, owner of one of Sydney’s finest cigar shops ‘Bogart’s House of Fine Cigars’. ” Increasingly cigar makers based in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras and Brazil are producing cigars of similar, if not better quality, than those coming out of Cuba.”
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We’re always excited to see what the guys at Der Raum are up to with their drinks. The guys are particularly excited about the new technique applied in the Velvet Fog, and promise they will be looking at further ways to develop this through the year with some more interesting stuff coming out for autumn & winter.
Sydney’s multi-award winning Zeta bar will be transformed into a 50’s-style ice cream parlour each Friday evening until the end of March, to serve their iced cocktails in cones and cups from the new Cryogenic Sorbet and Cocktail Bar.
I’ve always been a fan of a good story and of a good gin drink too. The Florodora (often spelt misspelt in bar books as the ‘Floradora’) is a great marriage of both these wonderful things and so is not to be passed up in these pages. Here’s how the story goes…
Our lucky winners of the Havana Club Masterclass trip to Cuba have put their new knowledge to work and created some Cuban-inspired cocktails…
Agave is an authentic Mexican restaurant that opened its doors on Surry Hill’s bustling Crown Street mid-2009. Owned by Gerardo J Macip-Lanzagorta, a born-and-bred Mexican, Agave is strictly a sour-cream free zone.
In the grand scheme of things vodka has really only graced the Western palate in more modern times. Sure the clear stuff was around, but it really wasn’t until the 1940s and ’50s that the stuff really took hold in the US. Unfortunately for vodka this late start means that there are relatively few vodka cocktails that we really deem as ‘classics’.
Described by New York Magazine as a veritable cocktailapalooza, Eben Freeman and Linden Pride are taking their “guerilla drinks festival”, known as ‘Cocktail All-Stars’ to New York next week.
The lucky winners of the Havana Club Rum Masterclass are hitting Club Habana for lunch, wishing they had just a little bit more time in Cuba…
Always looking to the legends and forefathers of the bartending craft when creating new classics the Bitter Truth have now invoked the work of the ancient alchemists, with their latest creation Elixier: “a digestive liqueur that blurs the lines of conventional wisdom.”
Leading Queensland architecture and Interior design firm, Arkhefield, have contributed their designs to one of the first laneway transformations in Brisbane City as part of the ‘Vibrant Laneways and Small Spaces’ program. The venue, aptly named “The Laneway”, and co-incidentally run by ex-The Bowery bar manger, Ryan Lane, is part of the well renowned and award winning Urbane restaurant…
The lucky winners of the Havana Club Rum Masterclass are hitting the Plaza de Revolution, smoking some Cubans and trying to ignore the fact that their tour is coming to a close…