Owner and bartender Collin Perillo (ex-Milk & Honey London, The Roosevelt, Mahiki), chef and owner Tim Dengate and owner/barista/bartender Aidan Morrison opened this little bit of food and drink paradise in Randwick just a few days before Christmas, and decided to open on Christmas Day because, well, they’d just opened and they wanted to play with their new toy.
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Shaun Pattinson, former owner and bartender of influential and award-winning Adelaide bar, Cushdy, is getting back behind the stick just in time for Adelaide’s Fringe festival. when he opens a popup bar called Roses & Rye.
Billed as a small bar and restaurant that is inspired by “the golden age of cure-all elixirs” Spring Street Social is a home for cocktails, food and live music in Bondi Junction. They’re offering a big selection of craft beer, some inventive cocktails and a cracking Aussie and Kiwi wine list.
After 13 years in the space on Eldridge Street, Milk & Honey’s owner Sasha Petraske was looking for new digs: a bigger space for a new chapter in Milk & Honey’s life. And one that sparked a new life for the old space: life as Attaboy. We asked Ross and McIllroy how it came to be via email.
We get out for a night of beers, dive bars and eats in Brooklyn. From the Brooklyn Brewery, to award winning Clover Club, Brooklyn has your drinking needs sorted.
2013 has been a busy year for the team at Drink & Dine: not only have they opened Sydney’s messy and delicious new crab shack, House of Crabs, they’ve taken over and renovated The Oxford Tavern.
Open on a site which once housed a Japanese karaoke swingers club called Swing Box (we guess the clue was in the name) is the latest bar from Hamish Watts and Ben Carroll of the Applejack Hospitality Group.
Well it’s an opening we’ve been waiting for all year and now the time has come. Papa Jack’s, the new bar from Marco and Emily Nunes (one half of the four owners who set up the influential Brisbane bar, Canvas) is open for business.
Newcastle is getting in on the small bar act with the opening of new bar, MoenyPenny…
The Mornington Peninsula already has plenty of pulling power: you’ve got lush countryside, ocean, and great wines. And now you’ve got the relaxed bar environment to enjoy all of this bounty at The Deck in Frankston.
WA bar manager Ben Tua is opening up his own bar with Mechanics Institute owners Hamish Fleming and Siobhan Blumann. We asked Ben about his plans for the place.
We recently brought you the news that mezcal looks set to be the hit of the summer with the opening of Mr Moustache on Hall Street in Bondi, and at the weekend they opened their doors to the public. Australian Bartender popped by to take a look at what owners Regina Bueno Ros and Bildo Saravia have put together.











