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Stories tagged “bars”

Venus Bar opens under Brasserie Olivia in Chelsea
La Nouvelle Garde's first bar outside France seats 22 in a basement built around 1970s Parisian nightlife, with cocktails from Jennifer Le Nechet.

Berryman's: Three Sheets duo opens a martini bar in Dalston
Max and Noel Venning go back to Kingsland Road with a 20-capacity, standing-only bar for martinis, wine and Cornish oysters, two doors from the original Three Sheets.

Opera Bar Sydney reopens on 6 November under Applejack
A deep green redesign by Luchetti Krelle, an all-electric kitchen and a four-section menu built on suburban Sydney producers replace the harbour bar's blue nautical look.

Marsha's sports bar in Philadelphia closes after a year
The South Street bar, the city's first built around women's sports, opened in September 2025. Its last shift is on Sunday, and the owners gave no reason in their announcement.

The Savoy reopens Beaufort Bar as Beaufort Wine Bar
The London hotel's Beaufort Bar reopens as Beaufort Wine Bar, with more than 250 wines from 18 countries and half the cellar poured by the glass.

Moutai House Singapore opens as the brand's first lifestyle venue
Kweichow Moutai is turning a 1919 riverside building into three floors of baijiu, from a tasting gallery to a Chinese restaurant and a rooftop bar.

Byrdi Melbourne closes after six years in the CBD
Luke Whearty and Aki Nishikura have shut the Melbourne Central bar that made native Australian ingredients a cocktail discipline rather than a garnish.

Alcohol-free drinks are not a gateway, says new report
Club Soda's Gateway? No Way pulls together survey work and academic studies to test a claim the drinks industry has been arguing about for a decade.

UK hospitality closures ran at 20 a day this spring
Britain lost 1,839 licensed sites between March and June. It also gained 1,794. The net figure is almost flat, and that is the part worth arguing about.
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