It might have a French name (which stands for “water of life” as well as describing a style of fruit brandy) but Eau-de-Vie feels more like a 1930s-style American bar, complete with dark wood, great …
Read the full story »The best Sydney bars and pubs in the CBD, Circular Quay and The Rocks.
The best bars from Darlinghurst to Surry Hills and Potts Point.
Sydney’s best bars from Balmain and Glebe to Newtown.
The best bars from Manly and Bondi to the outer burbs.
The best bars from Neutral Bay to North Sydney.
You don’t expect to see anything risqué in Darling Harbour and yet on a Friday night there are barmaids in corsets and garters, a burlesque dancer weaving on the dancefloor, a painter dabbing on canvas …
Let’s be blunt: on Melbourne Cup day most of you are going to drink cheap champagne while watching the office telly and crossing your fingers you’ll win the sweepstakes that Beryl from accounting set up. …
Update: the beer garden installation is now finished, meaning the Opera Bar is back to normal. Yet while the fake grass has been rolled up and the faux Grecian statues and synthetic butterflies have all …
Ever since my gay wingman* defected to Melbourne, all the while taunting me that the bars are better there and I’m a sucker for running a Sydney bar site, I’ve abandoned the old bars we …
Update: Unfortunately 7m has now closed, although the bar managers behind it will be launching Grasshopper bar in Temperance Lane soon.
Cocktail bars normally try to be cheery but Seven Metre Bar (7m), which doubles …
The last time I was at the Harbour View Hotel I was thrown out for indecent behaviour. This probably isn’t something I should confess in public, especially since I just found out (to my horror) …
I fell in love with mojitos in the back streets of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter. There, in a dark tiny bar barely larger than a closet, a man stood behind a counter with bags of ice, …
There’s no doubt Melbourne’s bars are amongst the best in the world. From hole-in-the-wall laneway bars that add an extra dimension to the CBD to cocktail lounges where the primary focus is on the drinks, …
