Rosenbaum & Fuller is the new bar and restaurant from 2015 Bartender of the Year and veteran of the Sydney scene, Lee Potter Cavanagh.
New Bars
New Bars
The Espy — also known as the Hotel Esplanade — has reopened its doors after a long renovation by its new owners, the Sand Hill Road group.
The team behind Sydney’s Maybe Frank, which this year took out the title of 2018 Restaurant Bar of the Year at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards, have got a new cocktail bar on the way: Maybe Sammy.
It’s been a few years in the making, but this Saturday Sydney will have finally have its own Employees Only.
Bopp & Tone is named for the grandfathers of the Applejack owners, Ben Carroll and Hamish Watts (Carroll’s grandfather, 94 year old Anthony ‘Tone’ Adams, was the guest of honour at the official launch).
Expect to sample whiskies from throughout the world when Bancho Bar, the new Chinatown cocktail bar from the team behind Tokyo Bird, opens in November.
Could we be entering an age of the hyphenate bar? Take PS40, for instance: it’s a soda factory-bar; Archie Rose in Sydney is a distillery-bar; and so too is this new venture, Brix Distillers.
This new venue in the Perth CBD comes from Andy Freeman and the Sneakers & Jeans group, who own The Flour Factory, Varnish on King, and Hadiqa in Perth (to name just a few).
As with all things Speakeasy Group — whom you may know from such award-winning bars as Eau de Vie Sydney and Melbourne, Boilermaker House, and Mjolner Sydney and Melbourne — they’ve brought their signature flair for the extravagant to the new venue, which might be their most ambitious yet.
They’ve opened Employees Only in Singapore, Miami, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. And next month we’ll see the latest outpost opening in the Sydney CBD.
Brisbane has welcomed a new, basement level lounge to the CBD, called Boom Boom Room.…
Matteo Downtown is the new Sydney restaurant and bar from The Adore Group, whose owners (Adam Abrams, Orazio D’Elia, and Eddie Levy) have a hand in some of Sydney’s most loved venues (Kittyhawk, Lobo Plantation, The Island and Da Orazio come to mind).