Maybe Cocktail Festival
Sample some of the world's best cocktails as 20 acclaimed international bars descend on Sydney to share boundary-pushing concoctions.
Overview
If you've got a passion for cocktails, you'll be happy to know the Maybe Cocktail Festival's 2025 lineup is stacked with a huge range of internationally renowned bartending talent. Bringing 20 of the world's best bars to our shores, you won't have a better chance to sample some of the very best concoctions you'll try anywhere, all from the comfort of several much-loved Sydney venues.
Boasting seven bars that appear near the top of The World's 50 Best Bars 2024, the festival will welcome the likes of Seoul's Zest (#9), Barcelona's Paradiso (#10) and London's Connaught Bar (#13). Representatives from acclaimed venues in the Americas, Europe and Asia complete the array of talent.
Between April 7-13, these innovators and tastemakers will put their skills on display through 25 fascinating events. You can expect signature cocktails, exclusive collaborations and world-class hospitality from some of the best in the world at world-class local venues including Maybe Sammy, El Primo Sanchez, Whisky Thief and Little Cooler.
You might also be happy to learn this instalment of the festival is the most gender balanced to date, with more international female bartenders attending than ever before. If you're keen to get in on the action, you can purchase cocktail tokens at the door of each venue, with $50 getting you two tokens to spend on a curated selection cocktails from visiting bartenders.
