You’ve hired that crack team of bartenders, searched for the best spirits, crafted a kickass cocktail list. You’ve thrown open the doors and you want to get the name out there. One way of doing that is by getting good-looking photos of your bar done for press purposes — here’s what you need to know.
Venues
Venues
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.
Red Bull Music Academy’s magazine has a great story on the storied old Melbourne nightclub, Honkytonks. As the article by Nick Connellan points out, in the spot where Honkytonks once resided there is now an Indian restaurant, called Tonka: “It’s typical of the city: new, upmarket, pricey. Totally hidden unless you know it’s there. Achingly cool, then.”
We’ve been talking about jazz age drinks for years now — but where has been the jazz? New Perth bar, The Laneway Lounge, looks set to rectify all that.
Sydney’s HOME nightclub has undergone a little but if a revamp thanks to their longstanding partners, Red Bull, through the Red Bull Curates program.
The partnership goes back some time, with the nightclub (which opened in 1998) being Red Bull’s first Australian on-premise account.
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.
Regular Bartender contributor Nick Reed has left his post running the bar at venerable Melbourne cocktailing institution, 1806, to return to his hometown of Geelong and set up his own bar.
Well, what Brisbane’s rockabilly scene has lost, their whisky drinkers have certainly gained. Owners Asa Boardman, Trent Goodwin, and Martin Lange (Sling) have turned what was once a rockabilly hairdresser into a bastion of whisky in the heart of the West End.
Why is it now, that after only three short years, I find myself writing about moving on and leaving Canvas behind? After just three years of great success within the Australian bar scene we have decided to sell Canvas.
Influential Adelaide bar, Cushdy, is set to close its doors forever at the end of September, citing a long standing struggle with location as the chief factor in its closure.
It must be a pretty good time to be a rum importer right now — one might even go as far as saying that 2013 turned out to be the year of the rum bar. And back in February (and also in Fitzroy) came this cracking new rum joint, The Rum Diary Bar.
Last October we brought you the news that Perth’s Andy Freeman — award winning operator of Luxe Bar and member of this year’s Top 50 Most Influential List — was working on a new bar for Perth’s CBD, called Varnish on King. Well, they’ve now thrown open the doors and we thought we’d take a look at what’s on offer.