The Soda Counter

Flaming, smoking and fizzing — a playful beverage counter is popping up in Newmarket.
Francois Finlay
November 28, 2019

Overview

Auckland will get a taste of 1920s New York this December as a soda counter pops up in Newmarket. To celebrate SodaStream's new range of organic mixers, The Soda Counter will see nostalgic cocktails whipped up by a Soda Jerk. The bartender in question is Barney Toy (of Ponsonby cocktail bar Clipper) who has been enlisted to create a selection of playful beverages, including a smoking kombucha tea, a gin and tonic fizz, a cola rum spider and a raspberry old fashioned lemonade.

Found inside Corner Burger at Westfield Newmarket's new rooftop dining precinct, the pop-up will be a modern take on the counters that were found on almost every New York corner in the 1920s. It will be open on Wednesday 4 and Thursday, 5 December from 12–3pm and 5.30–8.30pm.

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