For cocktail connoisseurs, Drinks International’s annual World’s 50 Best Bars Awards runs like a dream itinerary, with last year’s winners spanning across 27 cities in 19 countries. The chosen few are voted in by 412 industry insiders, through a worldwide survey run by Drinks International magazine. Get out your pen and paper, below are top 10 venues pioneering cocktail culture!
Melbourne’s bar scene is renowned throughout the bar scenes of both Australia and the world, and for good reason. One man across the globe who certainly noticed this was Reg Ridealgh, a London bartender who moved to Melbourne and now calls it home. His years of being a bartender inspired him to open his own bar in St Kilda called Love & Dysfunction.
Ahhh Christmas. A time when families come together and try to resolve fights and differences for a holiday that has been commercialised. Whether it’s Christmas lunch at your nan’s or crazy aunty’s, or a fabulous dining experience on the harbour, let’s face it; you’re going to want to drink just to get through it.
About to head out for a big night and then suddenly realise you’ve been to the same club every Saturday for the past couple of months? Feeling fed up of drinking the same drinks and seeing the same faces? The bar and club scene blues happen to all of us. But one of the best cures is simply to get a change of scenery and have a drink or two somewhere else!
As we continue to witness the pulverization of the Australian Cricket Team in our living rooms, men all over the country have been engaging in a very manly activity: having a beer whilst watching the cricket. This particularly masculine rite of passage is a potent setting for male bonding and it is difficult to envisage it without a VB or Carlton Draught in hand.
There are plenty of tipples to choose from when you hit the bar on a night out, but usually people have a preferred regular order set on
default. What’s your poison? Are you a vodka/Red Bull kind of clubber? Are you a bubbles kind of girl? Or do you like your drinks fast and strong?
I’m always watching YouTube comedian Alex Williamson’s videos, he’s bloody hilarious! If you haven’t seen his videos before, my heart goes out to you, really. You’ve missed out on a comedic genius talking about his messed up views on wanking over photos of girls on Facebook and his quest to make the C word socially acceptable.
Clubs aren’t always an intimate affair, but with so many small bars around these days, it is easy to get cosy with the bar tenders. I am talking about sitting at the bar. There tends to be less leg room, elbow grazing bench tops, un-backed stool type chairs and the risk of an occasional drink spillage as people push passed you for service. But there are benefits to sitting at the bar.
Everyone likes to party and when we’re doing it, most of us enjoy a drink or two along the way. Perhaps you’re a cocktail kind of person. Perhaps shots take your fancy or maybe it’s strictly beer or breezers. Many of you may even be messy miscreants and enjoy a mixture of all of them. Here’s a little list of what could be considered five of the most rockin’, party-inducing, down right bitching drinks ever associated with getting loose as a goose.
Cocktail names are like hipster band names - really obscure. Also, they often have places, names or colours in them. The names tend not to give away much about the drink, so menus always need to list the ingredients. But what happens when you really think about the name of a drink…