Australia’s distilling legends set for Sydney Spirits Festival

Bill Lark with a bottle of Lark

You certainly won’t be left without variety at the second annual Sydney Spirits Festival, which returns to the Overseas Passenger Terminal after a successful sold-out debut in 2024. The taste for a large-scale local spirits festival is obviously there, and organisers have done plenty to ensure this showcase of Australia’s robust spirits industry is as

Vivid Sydney to shut down Surry Hills with massive street parties

The Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills

Vivid Sydney’s food lineup has been dominated by news of Nigella Lawson’s dinners, but it seems the initial announcement was only the tip of a delicious iceberg. Revealed this week. Vivid Food will present its largest program to date, from a luminescent 1950s diner pop-up staged in Darling Harbour to vibrant laneway parties set to

An immersive Titanic exhibition sets sail for Sydney

The titanic exhibition

Tickets to see Titanic: The Human Story in Sydney are on sale today as the immersive exhibition sails into Walsh Bay Arts Precinct from Wednesday, May 30. The 1.5-hour experience uses modern technology and an impressive collection of historical objects to wrap guests in a tragic story that has prodded at people’s imaginations for decades.

Bar Freda’s joins Sydney’s big push for a more dynamic nightlife

Bar Freda's at The Abercrombie

Sydney institution Cafe Freda’s broke many hearts in December when the beloved team called last drink’s on their Darlinghurst home. But such sorrow was short-lived when it was revealed Freda’s would just be relocated back to its spiritual home of Chippendale, with Bar Freda’s popping up just down the road from the warehouse dance bar

Lady Gaga is shimmying down to Sydney this December

Lady Gaga live

Lady Gaga will bring her Mayhem Ball tour to Australia’s east coast this year, with stops in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Announced today, the pioneer of new-age avant garde pop is packing in some stadium shows her “Down Under Monsters,” scheduling a visit as part of her wider world tour starting in Las Vegas this

This new luxury hotel will transform Paddington’s dining scene

A rooftop of a hotel

London hospitality guns Studio Paskin will open a trio of new Paddington restaurants at the base of Accor’s forthcoming 25Hours Hotel The Olympia once it opens later this year. This week’s announcement sheds some much needed light on the project, which has been years in the making and will transform Paddington’s former Grand Pacific Blue

Newtown’s new apartment hotel hints at major new trend for Sydney accommodation

Australia Street Suites

Are we in the midst of an accommodation revolution in Sydney? The Grand National Hotel in Paddington has already impressed with Josh and Julie Niland’s boutique accommodation offering of 14 heritage hotel rooms above one of the world’s best restaurants, Saint Peter. Now another culinary-driven hotel has opened up, this time over on Newtown’s Australia

Best Sydney Royal Easter Show Showbags ($10 or under)

Easter showbags

Looking for the best Easter showbags? Well, they’re an expensive bunch and often add up to more than the actual cost of entry. Given we’re in the midst of a cost of living crisis, you may want to know where the affordable Easter showbags are so you can steer your kids in that direction. The