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Manager Profile - Tim Philips(0)
Tim Philips, bar manager at what is one of Australia’s most exclusive locations - Ivy’s Level 6 - has hit a bit of a green patch when it comes to competition success. Over the past few years he has claimed the 2009 CLASS UK Bartender of the Year, 2011 Diageo’s World Class Australia Bartender of the Year and more recently claimed the crown of Bartender magazine Bartender of the Year at this year’s Australian Bar Awards. We decide it was high time to catch up with the amiable Mr Philips to learn the secrets of his bartending success.
Introducing - Finbarr Shaw
Finnbarr might have ended up behind a bar but before he turned to the art of drinks mixing he was on track for the a more divine calling. Now with six years of ‘tending under his belt the and currently holding court at The Crimean in Melbourne he could be found tucking into on of his favourite porters or drinking almost unpronounceable eastern European elixirs on his nights away from the bar.
Introducing - Jessica Arnott
Placing in this year’s Top 11 at the Bartender of the Year Competition (sponsored by Reserve), Jessica Arnott is showcasing some fantastic bartending talent. You’ll find her at Sydney’s Victoria Room, the British-Raj inspired cocktail temple, where she’ll turn out quality drinks and fine chat with regulation ease if you drop in on a Friday night.
Operator Profile - Gary Beadle
Gary Beadle is another Western Australian who is doing some fantastic things within the Perth bar scene. Having started hospitality work in London pulling pints for English veterans he now runs a company dedicated to ‘the business of hospitality’.
Operator Profile: Martin O’Sullivan & the Grasshopper team
Marty is the self confessed ‘face’ of Sydney small bar Grasshopper, an award winning tippling venture in the heart of the CBD. It’s headed by himself, John Toubia and Belinda Lai and is a leading light in the changing dynamic of Sydney’s night time culture.
The Grasshopper team is heavily involved with the arts community, hosts [...]
Introducing: Ben Hickey
When Jason Williams (The Keystone Group) approached us about ‘Introducing’ one of his bar managers, Ben Hicky, his obvious passion got him across the line.
Gary Regan…Conversations with a contemporary cocktailian
This article appeared in the October issue of Australian Bartender magazine.
Interview by Edward Washington
Gary Regan, international cocktailian and avid liquid literary, is a man who has experienced life behind a bar and now writes about it from the other side.
Getting his first break as a drinks writer in the 90s Regan [...]
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