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MUCHO Tequila & Mezcal Festival 2025: Sydney Bar Week Highlights
Centro 86 was the place to be on Sunday for the annual MUCHO Tequila & Mezcal Festival, as part of Sydney Bar Week 2025. If you love tequila, mezcal and the weird world of agave as much as we do, it was a wild takeover.
Join us to help raise funds for Lifeline this National Suicide Prevention Week
Suicide remains the leading cause of death among people aged 15–44 in Australia. It’s a tough topic, but we need to talk about it. Join us this week to help raise much needed funds for Lifeline. Between September 8-14 we’ll be donating $1 from every special across our venues to Lifeline, helping support the 24/7 crisis support line for all Australians.
Herbs Taverne joins Apollo Inn for one night in Melbourne
For one night only, the Herbs Taverne crew are flying down to join the team at Apollo Inn with a selection of signature drinks, to round out the Melbourne segment of Broadsheet’s Dine Out Festival. Together with Apollo Inn’s Lachlan Bentley stirring down the martinis, Herbs will be serving up their delicious Gold Negronis and amaro-spiked cocktails for our sister city.
Bar Planet is the World's Dirtiest Martini Bar
For one night only, Bar Planet becomes the World’s Dirtiest Martini Bar. Sydneysiders will be able to create the dirty martini of their dreams with the addition of a few extra-filthy garnishes. Take Bar Planet's mantra of the ‘Martini How You Like It’ to a whole other level! Think of it as the Inner West version of mastering your Subway order. Dirty. Dry. Never Never Oyster Shell Gin. With a Pickled Onion and a Chilli-Stuffed Olive. Delicious.
Broadsheet Dine Out 2025: Clarence St Dual Happy Hour
As part of Broadsheet's Dine Out Festival, Cantina OK! and Herbs Taverne join forces for the ultimate Clarence St Dual Happy Hour! Start at Cantina OK! and enjoy the world-famous Margarita OK! for just $12, then venture downstairs to Herbs Taverne a few doors down to enjoy Herbs’ Aperol Spritz for the same price. Don’t forget to swing past later for a nightcap, with both bars open late until 2am.
MUCHO Tequila Trail
Who doesn’t love free tequila?! World Tequila Day is July 24, and we’re celebrating it all week with Sydney’s free & first ever Tequila Trail! To celebrate, we’re inviting you all to join the trail as we pour tequila on the house at Centro 86, Cantina OK! and Tio’s. The trail features a trio of Herradura tequilas to try: Herradura Plata Tequila at Cantina OK!, Herradura Reposado Tequila at Tio’s, and Herradura Añejo Tequila at Centro 86.
Bar Planet’s 3rd Birthday
What a night!!
An absolutely endless thank you to Onnie O’Leary for running a pop-up BP tattoo parlour in the bar!
Many Dirtini martinis were consumed. Many olives were tattooed. I hope you had a slice of the Freddo Frog Ice Cream Cake. Those things are elite. So much nostalgia.
We’re proud to announce our brand new venue: Herbs Taverne!
We opened a Negroni bar!! Conveniently located right next to Cantina OK!, Herbs Taverne is dedicated to the strange joy of bitter drinks, featuring a curated selection of the most delicious, iconic and rare amaros from around the world, celebrating aperitif and digestif culture.
Mid-Century Euro in influence, yet universally inspired, it’s a bar for deep discussion, drinking and dancing! Herbs is a bar that gives you permission to celebrate.
Herbs is designed for maximum 'Ahh..’., before dinner, after dinner, or instead of dinner.
Everybody Herbs Sometimes!
Centro 86 Tequila de Primera
Our weekly opportunity to sip extra-rare tequila at an extra-special price, starting from $13 a glass!
Come sample extraordinary & delicious tequila with us every Wednesday at Centro 86.
Centro 86 New Menu: Viendo Doble
Three new additions to our Seasonal Cocteles. A trio of classics through the Centro 86 lens. A look at how different parts of the world look toward the same flavours and ingredients.
An exploration of smokiness via our Mezcal and Whisky Old Fashioned. An ode to mango through a fluffy Fizz. A show of love to the stone fruit at the heart of Sydney’s favourite cocktail right now, the Amaretto Sour.
Cantina OK! New Menu: Ritual
Sour OK! Nevada OK! Whip OK!
An ode to little rituals, on Council Place and beyond.
Bar Planet New Menu: BFFs
Three new cocktails, all starring ingredients from three local favourites.
With a little help from our BFFs at AP Bakery, Goldstreet Dairy and Rooftop Bees, we’ve created a Hot Honey and Gentian aperitif, a Rhubarb and Whey spritz, and buttery Baguette sour.
Bar Planet Mega Martini Launch! (Gotcha!!)
Continuing the MUCHO tradition of mega-fying cocktails, we launched the Mega Martini at Bar Planet! Alas, this one was an April Fools joke but you can get your hands on a real Mega Margs at Tio’s and a Grande Spicy Marg at Centro 86!
Centro 86 wins Sydney’s “Best Cocktail Bar”
Centro 86 was named Time Out’s Best Cocktail Bar at their 2025 Food and Drink Awards!
Bar Planet 50 Best Discovery
Bar Planet was placed in the 50 Best Discovery List! An honour to be named alongside so many other amazing venues!
Tio’s $1000 Marg Giveaway
To celebrate Margarita Month, we partnered with el Jimador to give one lucky individual $1000 worth of margaritas at Tio’s! Participants were tasked with suggesting their most unhinged margarita flavours to enter the draw, and some of the ideas were diabolical...
Bar Planet x Tim Blackwell
Australian media legend and Bar Planet merch-wearer Tim Blackwell teamed up with us to create a weekly Scorpino inspired by his iconic interview with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in 2002 with the launch of Nova Perth.
Cantina OK! x Ken Done
It was an honour to collaborate with Australian legend Ken Done to create a drink at Cantina OK! inspired by his monumentally iconic art style. We visited Ken in his studio in The Rocks and chatted about his time in Mexico while he doodled on some Cantina coasters.
Goodbye OK! Seltzer!
All good things must come to an end and we decided to say goodbye to OK! Seltzer. It’s been an incredible 3 years but in the wise words of MUCHO Creative Director Jeremy Blackmore, ‘it’s time to concentrate on what we do best. Weird, fun, delicious, soulful venues for Sydney to love.’ A huge thanks to everyone who helped along the way!!
Cantina OK! 50 Best
An honour to be named on this list alongside the world’s best bars! Thank you to everyone who’s visited us on Council Place and who make Cantina such a special place.