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Musical chairs in Perth

The Perth bar scene is alive and well it seems, with a bit of musical bartender chairs being played. It appears that Luxe bar is ground zero for a lot of this too. Not only is owner Andy Freeman setting up a new bar, called The Varnish (as we reported in October’s Bartender) but other Luxe alumni are making moves too.

How to: rapid infusions

You have six packs of cream charges, a cream canister, a load of fresh berries and all sorts of party supplies like balloons and cocktail parasols. You make a note to ignore the knowing looks you get from the barely post-pubescent checkout guy.

Gin: jacked up on juniper

OK. Let’s get this straight from the beginning. Genever is not gin. Though gin was definitely based on the Dutch genever, genever has more in common with moonshine than it does gin.

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.

The Big Guns

Is the era of the big ‘group’ in Sydney coming to an end? Or is the landscape just changing for the better?