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Chapter & Verse Surfers Paradise. A cocktail Laced Cathedral of Chill
Taste on the Gold Coast is like sunscreen on a British backpacker. It is rarely seen and usually applied too late. This is a bar lounge hybrid, almost part Hemingway and part Hamptons. And somehow it works.
May 15, 20253 min read


Fat Washing Cocktails. Booze With a Bit of Dripping
So next time someone offers you a neat pour of something special, ask if it has been fat-washed? If not, it’s just regular booze and you, my friend, deserve much better.
May 15, 20252 min read


Frank Mac's - The Rocks, Sydney
For what feels like several hundred years, The Rocks has been heavily dominated by tourists and vagabonds, a veritable melting pot of people, cultures and opal shops, targeted squarely at an ever hungry tourist market, in the area to see a bridge, an opera house and to catch a ferry to Manly or across to the Zoo. This is all changing with a slew of venues opening to return the vibrant inner city hub into a mecca for food and wine. One of those is Frank Mac's - a temple to gi
Jan 4, 20223 min read


Noble Bootlegging - is there such a thing?
On a property just outside of Bendigo, a family are producing some pretty impeccable spirits. They are bootlegging whiskey, gin and a...
Oct 13, 20212 min read


This aint no Ugly Duckling
Just as the sunshine comes after the rain, so too does a good wine bar experience follow a rather ordinary one. With aging bones and...
Sep 7, 20212 min read
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