Diageo Australia has announced the lineup for the World Class Cocktail Festival, which returns to Sydney in September.
Across nine days and nights, leading Australian food and drink venues such as Quay, Bennelong and Shell House will join forces with global bar industry heavyweights and culinary creatives to deliver unique cocktail experiences, food and drink pop-ups, collaborations and parties.
The headline acts include Ago Perrone of the world’s number one bar, The Connaught (London, UK), who is collaborating on Tanqueray No. Ten at Bennelong with executive chef Peter Gilmore.
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On the other side of Sydney Harbour, renowned bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana aka Mr Lyan will transform the Green Room of fine dining restaurant Quay into a vibrant bar and supper club serving Johnnie Walker Blue Label cocktails alongside bites by Gilmore.
Shell House’s Clocktower Bar will be transformed into a pop-up bar showcasing the bartending skills of Norway’s Tayēr + Elementary, voted the world’s number two bar.
At Hickson Road Reserve, the Don Julio Food Truck Fiesta will assemble Australia’s most popular food trucks for a pop-up celebration of the margarita, courtesy Sydney’s Cantina OK!.
Bars across Sydney including Earl’s Juke Joint, Maybe Sammy, Double Deuce, The Rover, Frankie’s, Hickson House and Dean & Nancy’s will offer curated experiences, with pop-ups by interstate bars including Melbourne’s Black Pearl.
World Class Cocktail Festival will also host the global final of Diageo’s World Class Bartender of the Year with Nick Tesar from Bar Liberty in Melbourne representing Australia.
Joining over 50 other global finalists in Sydney, Tesar will battle it out for the title of Diageo World Class Global Bartender of the Year, announced on the evening of Thursday September 15.
Diageo Australia head of reserve brands Jonathan Morgan said the festival will be attended by more than 300 international guests from over 50 countries.
“It is going to be a fantastic showcase of Australia’s incredibly unique food and drink scene on the global stage,” he said.
The World Class Cocktail Festival program is available here.
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