If you like to drink, and you like to drink well, you’ll want to get acquainted with Kenobi. Just open on Lonsdale Street and adding to the basement style, this is a cocktail-bar-cum-hiding-place serving up a stiff drink. The space is larger than your average cocktail bar, but there are booths and corners a plenty,...
From the crowds on the street, at the car park, on the footpath, in the garden, and well, in the grounds, we all know the team at the Grounds of Alexandria are absolutely killing it. We love their fresh baked breads, their meat on the spit, their friendly farmyard animals and their family friendly vibe...
We’ve all been to Silk Road. Don’t lie. If not, you’ve heard about it. Recently Silk Road was shipped out for a new mistress to take over. Ms Collins. Who is Ms Collins? A French Socialite you want to be friends with. The kind of woman who knows more secrets that you ever will, and...
A bit of botox here, a facelift there. Sydney’s social set isn’t afraid to get a little professional help to stay in top shape. When you’ve been on the scene for as long as La Scala on Jersey, a nip and a tuck is a good investment. Woollahra’s local institution has emerged from a revamp...
In New York, there’s a candy bar on the Upper East Side. Yes, a bar that sells cocktails made with candy. The bar is actually called Dylans, and it’s part of a giant candy store owned by Ralph Lauren’s daughter Dylan. Well now you don’t need to go to New York for some sugary sweet...
Sometimes you just have to trust the artist. Duchamp’s urinal, Damien Hirst’s dead cow head, Warhol’s soup cans – all works of art that turned heads for trying something different. La Chineseca is that something different. Mexican Chinese fusion. It sounds odd but obviously the artist knows what he’s doing. Archibald Prize Winner Vincent Fantauzzo is...
Drinking boutique beers and munching on dumplings has never looked so good. Chapel Street has welcomed Zhou Zhou found above Oriental Tea House, with open arms. From David Zhou and he team behind Oriental, you can expect the food offering to be solid. And you’d be right. But the other draw card here are the...
Donny done good. Manly’s drinking hole is hedging its bets by doing a little bit of everything. Beef sliders. Check. Dumplings. Check. Drinks in jars. Check. Cool bar, cool kitchen, cool kids. Check, check, check. Maybe Manly local Matt Clifton just got sick of taking the ferry – the ex-Merivale operations manager is part of the new...
Tucked into one of Stanley Street’s terrace houses is the brand new Kubrick’s Bar. Famous director Stanley Kubrick is the bar’s namesake and a spot on Stanley St sealed the deal for young gun Timmy Maxwell, who is using Kubrick’s style of “abstract in subject but technically perfectionist”. Like the eclectic director, Kubrick’s brings a...
Geelong has never really been known for top-notch cocktails, and intimate cocktail bars. Until now. Strasse Bar has moved in to The Barking Dog’s back room and is serving up good food, good banter and great drinks. Leading the charge is Nick Reed (from Melbourne’s 1806) and Paul Marinelli (from Scotchmans Hill Winery) both Geelong...
