Martin Lange opened new Brisbane bar, Death & Taxes, late last week, and we’ve got some images — and a look at the killer new cocktail menu — here.
Venues
Venues
The Employees Only cocktail list has a little of something for everyone, from big, New York-style drinks, to refreshing sippers.
For this modern day trip to Port, I headed to the Sea Temple, a cracker of a resort for a five-night mission to unwind and do nothing. Every day was 37 degrees.
Bondi is set to welcome an izakaya into the neighbourhood when new bar Isabel opens in May.
Here, get a look inside at the good-looking West at Henley and check out Ollie Margan;s thoughts about the rooftop beachside bar at Henley beach, and the challenges of working across multiple venues.
Two of New Zealand’s best bartenders, James Millar and ex-pat Englishman, Barney Toy, have bought one the country’s best loved cocktail bars, Mea Culpa, in Auckland.
Mr Percival’s is part of the recently developed Howard Smith Wharves precinct, sitting underneath the Story Bridge on the mighty brown snake that is the Brisbane River.
There’s a lot of great aperitivo and Spritz-style drinking going on at Si Paradiso.
A bar it is and a great bar it is at that. It’s also one of the smallest — if not the smallest — bars we have. Coming from the team behind Tio’s Cerveceria — one of the world’s great tequila bars — Cantina OK! is all about mezcal.
Bust out the Hawaiian shirts. Blue Kahunas is a new bar that brings a touch of tiki escapism to Newcastle (and a whole lotta rum, too).
There’s a new bar coming for Michael Madrusan and Zara Young, the people behind the Made In The Shade Group which owns some of Melbourne’s best bars, The Everleigh and Heartbreaker. The group plans to open Bar Margaux in May, in a basement on Londsdale street in the Melbourne CBD.
With so much of the story of the cocktail focusing on its birth in the United States, its spread to London and Europe due to the harsh laws of Prohibition, the rise of the cantineros of the Caribbean and South America and the ceremonious bartenders of Japan, it’s easy to forget drinks were still being mixed Down Under at the time.