We put together a panel of the biggest agave nuts we know to find out which are the best agave bars on the planet.
Venues
Venues
Sydney’s The Rocks district is the setting for a new whisky bar set to open in March, called The Doss House. The 100 capacity bar will take over the basement level of a heritage listed space at 77 George Street in The Rocks, and it’s from the site’s history that it draws its name.
Opening in the last quarter of 2017 was Mr West, a bar and bottle shop in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.
Your bartenders’ weekend begins on Sunday for many of you, and blessed be those bartenders…
Smoke is the rooftop cocktail bar atop Barangaroo House in Sydney, the latest venue to come from the Solotel group.
If champagne is your thing, then new Sydney bar Solera is the bar for you. The new venue from owners Scott Bayly, Ty Van Emden and Roman Kristek focuses on cocktails and champagnes and joins the nascent bar scene down at Sydney’s new Barangaroo development.
At Maybe Frank’s new outpost, you’ll find authentic Italian pizza, great wines, and a level of bar service and cocktails you just don’t find at any old pizza joint.
On the PS40 Australia Day menu: a host of native botanicals, and a classic Australian sausage sizzle, the proceeds of which will go towards developing indigenous communities.
Melbourne bar Black Pearl is well-known for its cocktails, but for this week and to mark Australia Day, in the Attic they’ve got a special menu — and it’s a good laugh (though no doubt delicious, too).
Panama House, the Latin American-inspired restaurant and bar, has found some new digs and a great new view with looking out onto Campbell Parade and a postcard view of Bondi Beach.
Wildflower sits atop the COMO hotel in Perth, in the old Treasury buildings. They’ve recently had James Connolly, the group bars manager for Long Chim (which you’ll also find in the Treasury buildings), take over the drinks program for the bar. We asked Connolly to tell us a bit more about the drinks program.
How to open a popup bar? First things first: it ain’t going to be easy. There’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the process, and that’s something that Tom Bulmer, Chau Tran, and Bryce McDonough — the ownership trio behind tiki popup Lost Luau — found out in their rush to open their venue in 10 days of work.











