Presenting 6 brand new bars that are worth spending your summer time investigating. Want more to explore? Here’s the latest on what other good things are happening around town in January 2020. Altus The Altus Rooftop brings sky-high luxury to the east. The focus is on Champagne; their version of […]

Be sure to meet your friends at these 12 new Melbourne bars over the Summer holidays… NEW BARS Pinchy’s This Champagne and lobster bar is an appropriately salmon-pink palace with two bars to choose from, including an outside terrace overlooking the leafy Bourke streetscape. Cocktails here are mostly designed to […]

Here are six diverse new hangouts around Melbourne to try this month… NEW BARS Byrdi Byrdi‘s a cocktail haunt with a wine bar vibe that shares a philosophy that farm-to-table restaurants – but not many bars…yet – have popularised: one of seasonality and an emphasis on local produce. Their drinks […]

Here’s everything you need to know – and sip – this month! – Two honorary/ex-Melburnians are involved with launching Singapore’s very first spirit and first ever gin. Can you believe they’ve never had a spirits distillery in one of the – other – bar capitals of the world before? Tanglin […]

Here are the shiniest new places for your tastebuds to explore this month… Bourke Street Green This bar is a breezy, leafy little glitch in the high rise Matrix that is the western end of town. Original cocktails at the open-air venue champion local liquors from labels including Marionette, Tiny […]

Here’s your excuse to try somewhere or something new this month… NEW BARS Bodriggy Brewpub This big, beautiful former mechanic’s warehouse space has been transformed into an active brewery and expansive beer bar (there’s *plenty* of wine and cocktails too). Here you’ll spy items salvaged from the MCG and the […]

Presenting your monthly excuse to try somewhere new… NEW BARS Eazy Peazy  The team behind – one of Australia’s only sake labels – Toji Sake, presents Eazy Peazy. Naturally, the Japanese bar and eatery is influenced by the sake-making process (spot the rice-laden interiors, from the walls to the ceiling). […]

  As part of their continuing 10th birthday celebrations this year, Andrew McConnell’s Fitzroy bar and dining room Cutler & Co. has acquired one rather special barrel of Starward whisky to call its very own. There will only be 250 bottles of this limited edition drop ever available to purchase […]

Get out of the house! Cheers to the most notable new bars in which to escape this winter. Bar Margaux Joining The Everleigh and Heartbreaker family, Margaux seems to take the best of both venues (serious cocktails and good times, respectively) to create an underground bar meets brasserie that stands […]

NOW OPEN A new hotel bar for Southbank, Edwin Wine Bar & Cellar has an all-Victorian wine line-up by Dan Sims. Our next new wine bar has appeared in Sandringham. Baia di Vino (above; Jake Roden), from the Riserva Wine Bar crew, spruiks European wines and a trio of negronis. Hawthorn […]