Your guide to Australian craft spirits & Melbourne's cocktail culture
Harbourside club/bar Alumbra has new New York look. Interiors now traverse the concrete jungle with bright lights, hip hop homages and painted brick via designers Black Milk. The food menu has also has a street scene revamp thanks to Huxtable/Huxtaburger chef Daniel Wilson. I dig the black hot dogs. Cocktails […]
Forget 99 bottles of beer. There are 1084 painstakingly hand-painted bottles of wine on the wall at Brunswick East Wine Bar. That’s the (rather straight-forward) name of Brunswick East Wine Store’s new bar. It has been humming away for a short while now, but officially launched as of last week. […]
For the love of peat, the ‘Festival of Whisky’ begins tomorrow at The Kilburn! The festival is an extended week-long celebration of the golden elixir featuring master distillers, blenders and experts and interesting, rare or archival tipples. The deliciousness includes oyster and blue cheese pairings, experimental barrel aging of various concoctions […]
Hatted chef Teague Ezard has taken up residence at Levantine Hill Estate’s vineyard. Expect Euro food and much Oz wine. You can even sit in a wine barrel inspired booth! ezard @ Levantine Hill photo by Earl Carter. Coldstream. Leonard’s House of Love is a new dive bar by the […]
The beer-bellied vs. the cocktail crowd: never the twain shall meet. Unless you have a truly ingenious bartender! Alistair Walker created a series of cocktails heavily inspired by different beers from distributor Phoenix‘s portfolio during ‘Shaken Not Brewed’ at The Everleigh for the most recent Good Beer Week. “Our main focus is cocktails”, mused Alistair, […]
Now here’s a neighbour to whom you’d be happy to lend a cup of sugar. Stray Neighbour is borne from the minds – and smart hands – of a trio of locals who wanted to elevate their home-grounds in the North. Primarily a restaurant, dishing out an unwound Euro-centric menu by […]
Climb The Carlton‘s staircase at the moment and you will find portals into a sextuplet of different worlds. Their Bar Dream contest is in full flight as six former backpacker residences are transformed into competing venue concepts. It’s like moving through a house party on acid as you wander through the […]
Project Botanicals has closed for another year. However, you can always relive your memories of the pop-up gin bar at home. Bombay Sapphire has revealed the recipe to their Orris Aviation: probably the prettiest tasting tipple on the menu this time around. This drink pays homage to the orris a.k.a. […]
Escape this never ending rain to somewhere tropical. Or to Union Electric‘s version of tropical at the very least! The Chinatown bar is letting Cargo Cult’s rum takeover the venue this week. The small batch spiced rum is named for the cargo cults who worship John Frum (a.k.a John from […]
Stokehouse City has followed in the footsteps of the former Stokehouse St Kilda Beach which you will recall was a little bit fancy upstairs and housed the much more chilled-out Stokehouse Cafe below. Now, after a year, the CBD establishment has let its hair down to introduce Stoke Bar + Kitchen downstairs. […]