Cargo’s Freestyle Cocktail Competition Results

Every year Sydney’s Cargo hosts the Freestyle Cocktail Sessions. The annual event features 10 of Sydney’s top bartenders jumping behind the bar at Cargo Lounge for one night only to showcase their very own signature cocktail to full house of budding cocktail enthusiasts.

World Class Finds Classic Gin Cocktail Winners

Over February and March bartenders were asked to create a unique twist on a classic cocktail using Tanqueray No. Ten as part of Reserve’s World Class program. The competition was tight and the standard of drinks set a new benchmark for a competition already known to push the boundaries of cocktail innovation.

Zeta launches Cryogenic Sorbet and Cocktail Bar

Sydney’s multi-award winning Zeta bar will be transformed into a 50’s-style ice cream parlour each Friday evening until the end of March, to serve their iced cocktails in cones and cups from the new Cryogenic Sorbet and Cocktail Bar.

Zeta’s Vintage Nights

Grant Collins and the Zeta boys have transformed Zeta’s VIP Room to host several special “Vinatage Nights” over the remaining winter months until 9 August.

Ice Ice Baby

A full transcript of the interview with Grant Collins which appears in the February issue of Bartender magazine.
Interview by Simon McGoram

What different types of ice have you been working with at Zeta over the past couple of years?
Like a few bartenders I was inspired by a visit to Japan. I was really focused – with my [...]