Now in its fifth year (they turn five years old this December), Sydney bar Bulletin Place has won the Cocktail Bar of the Year award at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards an unprecedented four years in a row, and figured on the World’s 50 Best Bars list each year since opening. Here’s how they stay at the top of their game.
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Madame Shanghai is the newest addition to the Lotus Dining Group, and it’s one with a big emphasis on the bar program, group bar operations manager Kate McGraw tells us.
New Brisbane bar Saville Row is due to open next week, and it is the first outing in Fortitude Valley for Cobbler’s Martin Lange.
The 18th Amendment Bar is the brainchild of Australian hospitality veteran, Gorge Camorra, and has been in development over the last five years.
SURRY HILLS hotel, The White Horse, has undergone a revamp and a change in moniker — The Horse, as it’s now known, has had its sombre black interiors lightened and some killer artwork applied.
Melbourne bar, The Beaufort & Ike’s take a different approach to their cocktails to most bars. Their latest list landed yesterday, so we thought we’d take a look.
The creative bartender-owner of Singapore’s Operation Dagger, Luke Whearty, has moved to Melbourne to open a second bar.
Melbourne bar, The Elysian Whisky Bar, has found a way of bringing customers something they would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else in the world, let alone at any other bar in the country: their own independent whisky bottling.
The pizza is great at Sydney’s Maybe Frank, but the drinks are just as good. We asked co-owner Andrea Gualdi to share with us the ideas behind the Maybe Frank cocktail list.
Matt Whiley is the brains behind Peg + Patriot, as well as a co-founder of Purl and Worship Street Whistling Shop. His new bar, Scout, is a small bar with big plans for respecting seasonality and sustainability.
Following on from a successful pop-up with Nico de Soto of New York bar, Mace, the team at PS40 is getting set for another collab, this time with Luke Whearty, the bartender-owner of Singapore bar, Operation Dagger.
When we travel interstate, a question we get asked often is, how is Sydney doing? The Potts Point Hotel is set to rejuvenate the Cross.