Who | Alan Coop Where | Melbourne, Australia (Originally: Cairns, Australia) Current Bar | Freelancing Past Bar(s) | Bocca NYC, Guthrie Inn (NYC), Smoque N Bones (Toronto) Favourite Spirit | Bourbon Favourite Juice | Pineapple Favourite Classic Cocktail | Old Fashioned Favourite Part of the Job | Customer service, meeting new people and hearing their stories Favourite After Work Drink | Fernet on rocks Favourite at Home Drink | Usually...
Who | Clinton Weir Where | Melbourne, Australia Current Bar | Cocktail & Flair bartending events only Favourite Spirit | Tequila Favourite Juice | Guava juice Favourite Classic Cocktail | Dirty Martini Favourite Part of the Job | Making people smile Favourite After Work Drink | Any thing Favourite at Home Drink | Tequila Favourite bar in the world | Roadhouse Nightclub (London) Best known for | Flair bartending, Events,...
Every city has fore runners of cocktail scenes. Those people that maybe without knowing it, have altered the direction of a city’s drinking culture. Alex Ross is one of those people for the city of Melbourne. After more than two decades of working front of house in every capacity imaginable, she has watched one of...
As June 14th approaches, the question on everyone’s mind is: what to do for World Cucumber Day? A garden party? A beach picnic? A barefoot stroll in a belfry? We caught up with the inspiration and instigator of this most hallowed and unusual of traditions outside his taxidermist’s parlour to find out what he’d be...
On our recent trip to Melbourne we were told that we needed to find a man named Hayden Scott Lambert. We were told that his movements behind a bar were methodical and graceful and that he had designed a bar unlike anything anyone had seen. That it was something special. We were not lied to....
We love Melbourne. It feels like Toronto (right down to the streetcars) but way warmer. There a few different neighbourhoods worth popping around and checking things out at all times of the day. Despite being a thousand miles (kilometres?) from any other major city, Melbourne has kept up with any trend you can imagine and...
