2018 may have been another shitshow of a year when it comes to global events — and the tweets of certain orange-faced clown — but in the bar world at least, things have been looking pretty good.
New Bars
New Bars
Award-winning operator Martin Lange will open new Brisbane Bar Death & Taxes in 2019 — here’s what you can expect from the fourth bar in his stable.
The things that made the original iteration famous — the Martinis and Mahattans en can, the charcuterie and cheese — have made their way over to the city location,
We’ve noticed more love going into hotel bars of late, and rightly so; Australia has…
Here’s what to expect when the much-lauded London bar, Scout, opens its outpost in Sydney at The Dolphin.
Rosenbaum & Fuller is the new bar and restaurant from 2015 Bartender of the Year and veteran of the Sydney scene, Lee Potter Cavanagh.
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.











