here’s few bar managers out there that can match the esteem that The Rook’s bar…
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Nikita Ward Bartender, The Hazy Rose How have you seen the ‘boy’s club’ of the bartending…
The Rook’s latest recruit, Izzy Comber, talks to us about her favourite cocktail, her favourite…
Welcome to our series of interviews with women in the bar industry. The condensed versions…
White Lady 40ml Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin 30ml triple sec 20ml lemon juice Egg…
Napoleone Co Pear Cider takes out top honours in our blind tasting of 9 great Aussie ciders — read on for tasting notes and the all-important star ratings.
Here’s 8 great gins tasted, scored and rated: We chose The Rook for this tasting for one very simple reason — this joint loves its gin. We put eight gins out in front of our panel to explore, and the tasting turned some heads…
Looking for a bar? Well, don’t bother looking for the sign above a big, bold entry right on a main road. No siree, from what I can gather, those days are long gone. Bars in 2013 are secreted down laneways, up elevators, round corners, behind restaurants, or in basements. Sometimes you need a secret password.
With Sydney’s CBD basements slowly fllling up it was only a matter of time before bar owners started to look up, as the team at Keystone have now done. “It’s called the Rook,” said group director Paul Schulte, “it means a playful bird that hangs out up high.”