After more than three years with Suntory, Mick Formosa, the Brand Ambassador of the Year at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards 09 , has decided to move on. Mick will be joining the team at Moet Hennessy Australia in the Victoria as in an account manager/brand ambassador role made vacant by Robb Sloan’s migration to Behind Bars in Sydney.
Tag: Melbourne
Open Thursday through Saturday Chez Régine is inspired by the Parisian singer and ‘Queen of the Night’ Régine Zylberburg.
The Walk for Haiti – a Melbourne based charity cocktail event held on Thursday May 6 – was met with huge success raising $5730.00 for the UN’s World Food Programme.
The latest home grown product that will soon be hitting the shelves of bars around Australia is the premium 666 Pure Tasmanian Vodka.
On 6 May, 2010 Melbourne’s hidden bar community will be recreating ‘forgotten classics’ to raise money for disaster stuck Haiti with their ‘Walk for Haiti’ charity cocktail event.
Red Bennies, an exciting new live music and performance venue and cocktail bar opened its doors early February.
Introducing Sarah Clare from Melbourne’s award winning cocktail bar Murmur in Warburton Lane.
After snaring Operator of the Year (multiple venues) at the Australian Bar Awards in September 2009 and then snatching the top spot in the inaugural Most Influential List in December, Bartender mag saw fit to catch up with this leading Aussie bar industry personality to search for the secret behind his success.
‘Mezzo’ meaning half in Italian, aptly describes this new venue being half about the wine and the other half about what’s coming off the grill. This bar and eatery occupies the site that once held Oyster Little Bourke and is still run by the same team
Maeve Fox opened for trade in September last year taking over that space once held Platform 3. The venue is owned by Simon Pratt and Carlyle Gannon (behind South Yarra’s Katuk) as well as John Broderick and Leon Kopp.