There’s a lot still to come at Park House Food & Liquor, the new venue that stands where the old Mona Vale Hotel once did, but the first stage has been unveiled and it’s looking good.
New Bars
New Bars
Whirly Bird comes from Anthony Prior, formerly of The Keystone Group, and it’s an upbeat place where the chicken is full of flavour, the drinks are considered, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
The Waterside Hotel in Melbourne is one of those classic Australian pubs with a long history — it first opened as the Mercantile in 1853 — and it has been given a new lease on life with new owners the Sand Hill Road group.
Sitting on Enmore Road in Enmore, between Queens Hotel and the Enmore Theatre, Jacoby’s Tiki Bar is the neighbourhood tiki bar you’ve always needed but never knew you did.
Sydney’s latest Mexican restaurant, Chula comes from an ownership duo who know what they’re talking about when it comes to the flavours of Mexico.
Made to measure suiting and clothing, we’re told, just fits better than anything you get off the rack. Well, new Brisbane bar The Cloakroom is taking a similar approach to its drinks.
It might have what is the longest entryway into a bar in Sydney, but when you head through a door on Pitt street, skip down a flight of stairs, and come to a large, golden pineapple door knock, you will have found new Sydney bar Door Knock.
Beneath Driver Lane is a new Melbourne bar on the way from Hamish Goonetilleke, the guy behind Fitzroy’s Rum Diary Bar.
Arlechin Mornane Place, Melbourne Melbourne does okay with the laneway bars, right? They pretty mich…
Brisbane bar Electric Avenue has been open a few months now, but it’s fighting the good fight in Brisbane’s Woolloongabba precinct (that’s near the Gabba, for those outside the Sunshine State).
When Chula, opens in mid-October, they’ve got an extra boost of talent with Agave Cartel founder and one of the country’s most knowledgeable agave aficionados, Reece Griffiths, heading up the drinks program.
Take a look at Brooklyn bar Diamond Reef — with drinks of the calibre you’d expect from Ross and co, we’re kind of upset the bar didn’t open here.