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Pepe Saya Has Launched Its Own Delicious Range of Buttery Salted Caramel Bon Bons
Made with Pepe Saya's cultured butter and Olsson’s sea salt, the salty sweet treats are made in limited-edition batches — with only 250 boxes available each week.
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Cheesy Laneways and Wine-Centric Masterclasses: the 2022 Good Food & Wine Show Highlights According to Concrete Playground's Editors
The foodie fave is back for its 2022 run, and it's bringing a star-studded culinary lineup.
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The Country's Best Breweries Have Been Honoured at This Year's Australian International Beer Awards
After judging more than 2,600 entries, the annual competition has handed out 35 champion trophies to the top dogs of the craft beer scene.
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More Cocktails Please: Australia's Best 100 Bartenders for 2022 Have Been Revealed
Can't decide where to enjoy your next sip? Get one of these top-notch bartenders to mix you up a beverage.
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Seven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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Starward's Super-Popular Ginger Beer Barrel Whisky Is Back to Warm Up Your Winter
The seventh release from the Melbourne distillery's ginger-focused program is available to buy now — if you're quick.
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Four Pillars' Bloody Great Bloody Shiraz Gin Is Here for 2022 — with Bloody Shiraz Gin Chocolate
Pair this year's version of the cult-favourite drop with a Bloody Shiraz Gin fruit and nut chocolate bar made from leftover grape skins.
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Jetstar Is Celebrating Its 18th Birthday with a Range of Hard Seltzers Based on Popular Destinations
The Melbourne seltzer tastes like a "deconstructed cafe latte", the Gold Coast version features fairy floss and sea salt flavours, and the Queenstown tipple includes mulled wine and cloves.
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CP Picks: Here's How Our Editors Are Celebrating American Express delicious. Month Out in Sydney
Need help choosing where to go for this incredible celebration of food and drink? Follow us.
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GABS Is Touring Its 2022 Craft Beer, Cider and Food Festival Around the East Coast This May
This year's fest will serve up 120 brews — including beers inspired by breakfast foods, savoury snacks, desserts and cocktails.
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Now Open: Four Pillars Has Just Relaunched Its Healesville Distillery After a $7 Million Revamp
The beloved distillery's Healesville base is now home to 1000 square metres of new space, including an indoor/outdoor gin garden and a soon-to-open tuckshop.
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All the First-Rate Food and Drink Stops to Make When You're in Upstate New York
Let your tastebuds lead you outside the city limits to sample farm-to-table fine dining, fresh seasonal produce and boundary-pushing craft brews.
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Ten Quintessential After-Dark Activities in Sydney to Try This Autumn
You’ll hardly miss summer with our top picks to ensure a fun-filled autumn.
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Victoria's Bridge Road Brewers Is Opening a Pop-Up Bar Made Entirely Out of Cardboard
Everything inside the zero-impact venue has been constructed from materials that are either recycled or can be reused or composted.
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The Team Behind Cantina OK! Has Just Opened Martini-Slinging Bar Planet on Enmore Road
"Really, we just opened the bar we wanted to see in the area. We hope it brings joy to the inner west," Mucho Hospitality Group Marking Director Daisy Tulley says.
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York Street's New Underground Nashville-Inspired Bar Jolene's Boasts Over 150 Whiskies
There are whiskey cocktails, booths named after Dolly Parton and Chris Stapleton and live music four nights a week.
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Reschs Is Re-Releasing Its Old-School Favourite Dinner Ale Tinny for a Very Limited Time
It's been out of production for 25 years, but thanks to the Reschs Appreciation Society, this beloved brew is hitting shelves once again.
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Indie Spirits Tasting Is Bringing Its Boozy Sipping Parties Back to the East Coast
Spend an afternoon sampling more than 200 gins, whiskys, rums, vodkas and tequilas — and vermouths, mezcals and more — at this spirits fest dedicated to independent producers.
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The Little Beer Brand That Could: Young Henrys Celebrates Ten Years With (What Else) a Beer
No business plan? No problem. The craft beer innovators celebrate ten years of Newtowners, collaborations and local love.
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Seven Weekend Activities to Try If You Want to Shake Up Your Usual Routine
Stuck doing the same old? Add some flavour to your schedule with these fun activity swaps.
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Four Pillars Has Just Added a Yuzu Gin to Its Range — So There's Another Bottle for Your Shrine
After dabbling with yuzu before, the Australian distillery has created a standalone new tipple — and it's made with yuzu grown up the road from its Healesville base.
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Dan Murphy's Has Just Opened Its First Bar in Melbourne — and It Doesn't Serve Alcohol
Pouring booze-free beverages until the end of June, the Hampton spot boasts more than 30 drinks on its menu — and over 200 zero-alcohol options to take home.
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The Hinchcliff House Team's New Venue Bar Mammoni Is Tucked Away in Circular Quay Laneway
The small walk-in-only bar promises to be both your first and last stop of the day, serving up coffee, snacks and cocktails.
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Table Wines and Park Pét-Nats: Here's What Concrete Playground's Editors Are Drinking Right Now
Looking for the ideal sip? Here at CP, we drink a lot of grape juice — so whether you like your wine clean and crisp or fun and funky, this list is a good place to start.
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Pinot Palooza Is Hitting Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for a Huge Tenth Anniversary Comeback Tour This Year
Two-and-a-half years since the famed wine tasting festival's last edition, it's returning for a slew of pinot parties in Australia and New Zealand.
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You Can Now Get Another Round of DIY Gelato Messina Cocktails in Easter Eggs Delivered to Your Door
Cocktail Porter will deliver everything you need to whip up salted caramel cocktails inside Easter eggs — or espresso martinis inside Lindt bunnies.
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This Aussie Distillery's Hot Cross Bun-Inspired Rum Is Essential Easter Sipping
The Grove's new limited-edition release tastes like a hot cross bun in a glass — and it's available to preorder now in time for your Easter celebrations.
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Sydney's Bar Suze Is Hosting a Huge Fundraiser to Support Flood-Affected NSW and Queensland Regions
Sydneysiders can head by to drink wine and G&Ts for flood relief — or, no matter where you are, you can enter the raffle to win one of 25-plus prizes.
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We're Giving Away Four $2000 Airbnb Vouchers for Your Next Epic Weekend Away
Wherever you choose to go, your next weekend away is on us.
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Five Bars to Seek Out This Summer When Your Unseasonable Craving for Bourbon Strikes
Wondering where you can kick back with a bourbon this summer? We've got you.
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Raise the Bar: How to Enjoy Vodka At Home and Out and About Right Now
For a clear liquid, there's a lot more to vodka than meets the eye.
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The Guest Edit: Podcaster, DJ and Barfly Jade Le Flay Makes a Case for Sydney's Best Cocktails
From established classics to hidden gems, the professional night owl throws down her pick of Sydney's finest places to imbibe.
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Four Foolproof Tropical Cocktails to Try at Your Next Summer Soiree
These delicious and fuss-free pours will quench your thirst all summer long.
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Sea Life Aquarium's 'Little Mermaid'-Themed Cocktail Parties Will Get You Sipping (Almost) Under the Sea
Sydneysiders, it's better down where it's wetter at this cocktail experience, which also includes a live performance of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale.
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From Dim Sum to Goi Cuon: A Gourmet Guide to Sydney Lunar Festival 2022
Eat your way through this list for a delicious time this Lunar New Year.
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Cocktail Hour: How to Make a White Peach and Rosemary Highball
Raise a glass to what might just be the perfect summer cocktail.
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Cocktail Hour: How to Make a Cosmo Spritz
And just like that, the cosmo gets a summery upgrade.
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Cocktail Hour: How to Make Le Grand Fizz
Spritz o'clock? It will be with this elevated take on the summer go-to.
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Cocktail Hour: How to Make a Fresh Cut Spritz
Rethink the classic vodka soda with this sophisticated serve.
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Seven Sydney Arts and Cultural Spaces to Check Out This Summer (And Where to Get a Drink Afterwards)
Get your culture fix at one of these leading institutions — then make an afternoon of it at one of these excellent watering holes.
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Seven Aussie Summer Scenarios — and the Drinks You Should Sip on Your Next Adventure
We've found a refreshing cocktail to complement every situation you'll find yourself in this summer.