The Sydney Morning Herald today carried a story that outlined the tragic course of events on the night that Sydney teenager Thomas Kelly died in Kings Cross and illustrates the problem presented by the practice of “prefuelling”.
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The well-known and much admired Jeremy Shipley is moving on from his role as trainer and ambassador at Bacardi Lion, to take on a role with Sydney’s Solotel group overseeing their bars.
We’re expecting the opening next week of Bar de Halcyon in Perth, Bartender of the Year competition just 17 days away, and a new bar from the Alfred & Constance team…
The Australian small batch gin market is about to welcome a serious new player with Australian Bartender getting wind of an exciting new project coming out of the Yarra Valley headed up by a couple of booze industry legends.
There’s a new bar just five weeks away in Woolloomooloo. We stopped by Riley Street Garage to chat to the Parlour Group’s Bay & Bobby to get an update on the build.
Sydney’s Oxford Street is set to get a fresh injection of tikitastic escapism when The Cliff Dive, a new bar from the boys from Tio’s, opens in late October. Located on Oxford Square in the space which housed the Gaff (and earlier, Rogues), The Cliff Dive is drawing on tiki influence from Australia’s near neighbours in PNG and East Timor.
Industry heavyweights Jason Crawley, Mike Enright and Dylan Howarth have teamed up to create a new, wide-ranging creative agency called The Drink Cabinet.
Here’s something to give you a good chuckle. This short flick from Schweppes’ Cocktail Revolution shows a small country pub, The Old Hepburn Hotel (which has been keeping locals watered for 100 years) as they switch off the beer taps and shake up some cocktails for their regulars. Understandably, some of the reactions are quite amusing.
Ben Walsh has taken on a 510 square metre patch of dirt on Noosa’s main drag, Hastings Street. Miss Moneypenny’s is aiming to bring “something that is very different to what’s on offer in Noosa,” said Walsh.
The topless waitresses will be covering up, but the pole will stay. Influential Sydney pub group Drink & Dine are taking on the Oxford Tavern in Petersham.
Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth’s bartender, James Connolly, took out the national final of the Gin Mare Mediterranean Inspirations competition last week, and in the process bagged a trip to Ibiza to compete and the global final, to be held in September.
We hope you’ve been getting your study on for the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club, because this year’s prize for first place will be one to remember.