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.
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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.
DMBA 2018 is in its third year and pays tribute to the bars, bartenders and brands doing great things across China and beyond.
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).
We’re pleased to reveal that the highly anticipated Fancy Free team will be touring Australian shores in 2019 for the next instalment of The Blends of the World, by Beam Suntory.
“We came in, we broke ground, and 74 days later our doors were open,” says co-owner and bartender Steve Schneider. “That’s unheard of — and we came in under budget.”
“After 11 fantastic years it’s time to put my feet up,” says Melbourne bar owner Lisa Kelly. “18o6 is on the lookout for a new owner.”
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.
This new venue in the Perth CBD comes from Andy Freeman and the Sneakers & Jeans group, who own The Flour Factory, Varnish on King, and Hadiqa in Perth (to name just a few).
As with all things Speakeasy Group — whom you may know from such award-winning bars as Eau de Vie Sydney and Melbourne, Boilermaker House, and Mjolner Sydney and Melbourne — they’ve brought their signature flair for the extravagant to the new venue, which might be their most ambitious yet.