“I think that we like to create venues that we want to visit and go to. I feel like we create them because they don’t exist in Sydney, and they are our hospitality fantasy places that we want to go to.” – Anton
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Shady Pines Saloon celebrates 10 years of shelling peanuts, pouring whiskey, and providing honky tonk good times next month.
Every two years since 2009 we announce the Most Influential List, the Top 100 names…
You know the Swillhouse Group for their bars, of course — The Baxter Inn, Shady Pines Saloon, and world class dive-cum-beer bar Frankie’s Pizza — but they’ve now got into the brewing game with Frosty’s Beer Company.
Each year at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards, an individual is recognised with the award for Outstanding Contribution. But this year is a little different.
Last night, after a great day of Bar Week workshops and Bartender of the Year judging, the top end of the bar town got down to Potts Point and up the stairs to Sweetheart’s Rooftop BBQ for this year’s Most Influential List Party.
Much has been made of the resurgence of cocktails — but is the boom over? Has the cocktail moment passed? And if not, where’s it going to next?
From the guys, formerly known as the Shady Pines lads, previously known as the guys from Baxter Inn, and perhaps now more easily referred to as the Swillhouse group, comes Frankie’s Pizza.
Every bartender worth his tips has at some point thought about opening their own bar – be it a cocktail bar, dive bar or gin joint, the urge to open something you can call your own is often what keeps us going through all the late nights, double shifts and vomiting drunks (the tequila helps, too).
We caught up with the Shady Pines and Baxter Inn lads for their pearls of wisdom, like this gem: “No crumb in the no-crumb zone.” Read on…
2012 Bar Operators of the Year, Anton Forte & Jason Scott’s plans to change late night drinking in Sydney’s CBD.