Victoria
Gin tasting flights, cocktails, cold beers and cheese platters all combine at this quirky and welcoming spot housed in Mildura's historic Settlers Club…
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South Coast NSW
If you're hard-pressed to choose between the joys of sipping coffee and those of leafing through literature, this bookshop and cafe combines both…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Coffee is a serious business in Sydney, and this corridor's dark industrial decor and cell-block lighting cage combines with cartoon-noir wall…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Sardined into a Darlinghurst terrace, this cute wine bar offers a small but well-curated selection of beverages, with punchy rosemary negroni as the house…
The Whitsundays
Assailed repeatedly by fire and cyclones in its 100-plus years of trading, the Grand View stands unbowed and handsomely renovated at Bowen's heart. Paying…
Perth
Welcome to Perth's most neighbourly small bar. Tapas, shared platters (terrines, pâtés and fries – the co-owner chef often works the floor) and a concise…
Brisbane & Around
Top-notch coffee is what you get at tiny Bunker. Slurp a (weekly changing) single origin at the front espresso bar then scour the crates at Bunker Records…
Noosa
Award-winning Miss Moneypenny's sets a sophisticated scene for languid toasts. Well-crafted cocktails fall into numerous categories, from Seasonals and…
Hobart
'Since 1840' is the tag-line here… Well, the building maybe. But 'WBM' is one of a new brigade of Salamanca Place booze rooms, focused on excellent craft…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
A stalwart of the Oxford St LGBTIQ+ strip, Stonewall has three levels of bars and dance floors. Cabaret, karaoke and quiz nights spice things up; there's…
Gold Coast
This may be the most perfect laidback sundowner spot on the Gold Coast, with a large deck overlooking stunning Rainbow Bay and views curving around the…
Melbourne
Above a Vietnamese grocery and gym is the ultimate community bar, jointly owned by nearly 200 people. With Saturday night drag performances, food from…
Perth
Cheeky Sparrow's multilevel floor of leather banquettes and bentwood chairs is great for everything from coffee to pizza, cheese and charcuterie plates…
Perth
Located in an up-and-coming eating-and-drinking strip, the Dutch Trading Co combines rustic bar leaners and repurposed sofas with tattooed and bearded…
Melbourne
Behind the 1869 heritage facade are three levels of dining, drinking and dancing space, including indoor lounges, VIP booths and an expansive rooftop bar…
Brisbane & Around
Cool staffers, a rustic-industrial fit-out and a setting on an aerosol-pimped laneway off Ruthven St: you'd be forgiven for thinking you're in Brisbane or…
Byron Bay
Head upstairs to the breezy laid-back coastal vibes at this upmarket spot, with its whitewashed walls and big windows overlooking the main strip. The…
Victoria
Just south of Heathcote, this ripper of a country pub dates to 1857. The bluestone hotel has an on-site brewery doing the likes of IPAs and pale and…
Southern NSW & The Murray
Six taps are featured at this cool craft brewery, just enough to showcase Eden Brewery's concise menu of interesting beers. Try them all with a tasting…
Brisbane
Dressed in iron lacework and prettier than a wedding cake, this 1874 pub is a Brisbane institution. Directly opposite the Regatta CityCat ferry terminal,…
Victoria
We're living in a golden age for booze-lovers when small country towns are getting their own gin distilleries. Slotting in effortlessly along Piper St is…
Hobart
Old-time Havana mural, pastel-coloured stools, palm fronds painted on the windows, gallons of rum behind the bar – Rude Boy channels a little bit of the…
Melbourne
Named for the former tailor shop it occupies, this bar has signature cocktails following themes, named after everything from colours to fashion essentials…
Newtown & the Inner West
What Chippendale does best is a real feeling of neighbourhood despite its proximity to central Sydney. This backstreet pub takes food and drink seriously…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Beautifully situated in the leafy grounds of a historic water reservoir, behind the Pieno restaurant, this oasis serves dozens of wines by the glass to…
Newtown & the Inner West
There's something rather magical about the baroque, Italianate courtyard out the back of this pub, a great venue on a sunny afternoon or for candlelit…
Brisbane
Aloha and welcome to paradise… Well, at least to Brisbane's only proper tiki bar. An intimate, hand-built bamboo hideaway pimped with wood-carved stools,…
West Coast Australia
Hung with flower baskets, the handsome grey-painted Mundaring Hotel has been pouring beers since 1899. Back then, Jacoby St was Mundaring's main…
South Coast NSW
Locals pour in to join day-trippers in the grassy rear beer garden and sunny verandah for people-watching or just checking in on the Kangaroo Valley vibes…
Victoria
While the Freemasons perhaps didn't envisage their temple being converted into a lounge bar 146 years on, this is nonetheless a perfect spot for one. The…
Sunshine Coast
Kick back on the wooden outdoor deck and slurp on some of the Sunshine Coast's best coffee at this local espresso bar and microroastery. Choose from two…
Canberra
Coming and going a few times over the last 160 years, Canberra's oldest pub is once again thriving. Today it pours a changing roster of craft beers in…
Cairns
This enduring backpacker magnet and meat market is where young travellers, dive instructors, pickup artists and living-it-up locals get happily hammered…
Melbourne
Above venerable Thai restaurant Longrain is Longsong, housed in what was once a 1900s horse stable. There are four-person punch bowls, Asian-inflected…
New South Wales
A cosy, couch-equipped cafe that morphs into a wine bar with excellent food at night, Our Place is great for a drop-in most hours of the day. An…
Gold Coast
Surf star Mick Fanning (the guy who punched a shark, right?) and his fellow circuit legends Joel Parkinson, Bede Durbidge and Josh Kerr are all partners…
Southern NSW & The Murray
A popular spot for visiting backpackers and farm workers, the Area Hotel combines a friendly front bar with a rear beer garden that's often used for live…
Launceston
The 'Leap In, Limp Out' motto is dodgy, but the Royal Oak is still Launceston’s best pub. We really don't need to expand on this fact, but it's hard not…
Newtown & the Inner West
Hidden away by the bulk of the Broadway shopping centre, this small microbrewery has hanging tankards and the industrial paraphernalia of kettle, mash tun…
Melbourne
Too hip to have a sign (look for the stylised mountain/M-shaped neon), this slick venue spills over two levels where visitors can order cocktails from…
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