Open in time for the rush of festive season champagne sales is this new brasserie and bar in the Rocks. The bar is decked out in 1920s décor and inspired by the French Mediterranean and the eponymous pineapple (ananas being the French word for it).
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We’re well versed in the spate of small bar openings that have taken over Sydney and other capital cities (yes Melbourne, you did it first) but there isn’t a lot we hear about the trend flowering beyond the major cities.
Sure, there’s Goldfish in the Hunter Valley. Now, thanks to the arrival of Fox Bar in Maitland there are the nascent beginnings of a Hunter Valley small bar tour – though someone is going to have to drive.
What’s that? An invitation to smash as many of their “death sentence wings” as you can in just twelve minutes? And American craft brews feature in their Sunday “crafternoon” special?
With lyrics that seem contradictory and oblique, Roxy Music’s 1972 debut single Virginia Plain might seem an odd source inspiration for a bar’s moniker.
But look at the drink menu and the kitchen fare and things start to make sense.
It used to be a sterile office space all one shade of white – white walls, white ceilings, fluorescent office light. The very definition of bland, monochrome and uniform. But this space, now home to Udaberri, is much more than that: deep warm-toned timber floors, below exposed ceilings and brick wall, while chesterfield lounges and communal tables provide space to relax.
It used to be, only a few years ago, that a night out in Manly, home of the silvertails, sandy beaches and surfers, involved heading down to the Corso and into a big ol’ beer barn. There’d you’d order beer, if you were a guy (it’s a beer barn, after all), and you were likely wearing a T-shirt.
Which is not to say that is bad, because there is a time and a place for that. But that was all there was. And it couldn’t be further from the truth today.
“We created a venue that we’re passionate about and that we love,” Hemmes stated, “we just hope to hell it works out!”
If you were at cocktail joint, Bar None, in Camberwell and got a little restless and went exploring, you might be surprised at what you find…
It looks like a budding food truck entrepreneur became disheartened and ditched their caravan in a Melbourne laneway. But take a closer look. There’s 5L kegs of Heineken and Little Creatures for sale, paella being served from the counter window cut into the caravan, a licence plate that reads “CHUCKIES”.
Relaunching in September 2011, The Smith has been “fitted with a tailored suit, a new face, a fresh attitude and a savvy team” – dividends that have paid well, with the venue nominated for New Pub of the Year at this year’s Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards.
This new bar appeared in the September issue of Australian Bartender. The Cottage Bar &…