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  • Online Australian Bartender today: Frank Dilernia has built the Tapavino Group the old-school way – graft first, polish later. From launching Tapavino as Australia’s first dedicated sherry bar to growing a tight, Spanish-leaning mini-empire across Sydney, his playbook has always been about flavour with intent and operations that actually work on a slammed Saturday night.
  • Online Australian Bartender today: Perth’s Pirate Life has marked its five-year milestone with a major refurbishment, reopening its Murray Street venue with a reworked layout designed to reconnect the space to the city and set the venue up for its next phase of trade. And to celebrate they are throwing an all-day birthday blowout.
  • Online today on Australian Bartender: Pullman Hotels is rolling out a new menu takeover across its bar venues from mid-February through to October, partnering with chef Nat Thaipun, with the first activation launching in Sydney this month.
  • Online today on Australian Bartender: Ravenspur owner, Taran Howard, doesn’t have a traditional hospitality background – and he’s the first to tell you that’s exactly why the bar works. He explains how he built the bar on instinct rather than instruction, and why service still matters.
  • Online Australian Bartender: A new restaurant and bar has opened in Glebe, with Darling Glebe taking over one of Sydney’s most historically charged dining rooms and returning it to what it has always done best: pour serious drinks and give people a reason to stay. @darlingglebe
  • Online today on Australian Bartender: Five new venues have opened inside Southbank’s newly launched Hannah St Hotel, marking the Mulberry Group’s first venture into hotels and its largest project to date.
  • On Australian Bartender today: Ravenspur doesn’t announce itself loudly. It broods. Tucked into Enmore Road, the Newtown bar trades neon bravado for shadow, warmth and a distinctly Southern Gothic sensibility that feels deliberately out of step with its surroundings – and that’s the point.
  • Online today on Australian Bartender: A new local has landed in South Melbourne – and it’s one the neighbourhood already knows. Lush 2.0 has opened in the former Wayside Inn, a pub that’s been part of the area since around 1868, now reworked into a modern, high-energy venue. @lush2.0_rooftopandbar

For more information on how to get involved with 2026 Sydney Bar Week please contact Harry Kooros HarryKooros@yaffa.com.au

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