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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.
Bar Planet x Annie Hamilton Merch
Annie Hamilton popped by Bar Planet to create a Scorpino celebrating her new album ‘Stop and Smell the Lightning’. She also customised some of our merch that we gave away to one lucky winner!
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!!
Bar Planet “Tarot” Menu Launch
Our 2024 Spring/Summer menu is for all of the Inner West mystics.
✨ Tarot ✨
We took three iconic tarot cards, painted them with the Bar Planet brush, enlisted the help of the freshest of produce, and ended up with a delicious menu of seasonal symbolism.
Centro 86 “Entrar a la Plaza” Menu Launch
Toreador. Matador. Picador. Three historic cocktails brought into the year 2024.
Before the Margarita existed, there was a whole genre of early tequila cocktails.
All three of these seasonal creations harken back to recipes from 1937’s ‘Cafe Royale Cocktail Book’, reimagined through the lens of what we can do in 2024 that we couldn’t before.
How can we revisit classic combinations with an emphasis on a wider, more international pantry, modern techniques and a focus on the freshest ingredients?
Cantina OK! “Zoo” Menu Launch
Jumbo OK! Bongo OK! Agro OK!
Three drinks inspired by our favourite megafauna. There are no more charismatic animals on earth than the hippo, the elephant and the croc.
An idea born from the making of our very own croc pechuga, a literal distillation of crocodile spirit found in the Agro OK!.
Find your spirit animal.
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.
Cantina OK! x Messina
We teamed up with your favourite gelateria for the greatest spicy marg Sydney has ever seen, alongside an exclusive weekly gelato flavour!
Centro 86 Australian Bar Awards: Best Tequila Bar
Centro 86 was named the Best Tequila Bar at the Australian Bar Awards!
Daisy is the 4th Most Influential!
A huge congratulations to MUCHO Group’s Co-Owner & General Manager Daisy Tulley who came in at no. 4 on The Australian Bartender’s Most Influential List during Sydney Bar Week last night.
We’re immensely proud of all of the work Daisy does to make MUCHO Group a happy and safe space for our teams and our guests, and her contributions to creating a wider change across the industry.
Cantina OK! x Kenney
Kenney returned for one night and one night only and created the weekly special of our dreams!
Centro 86 Happy Hour Launch
Did someone say $12 spicy margs and $7 beers? Every day from 4pm-6pm at Centro 86!
Bar Planet Martini Mondays Launch
Nothing like the prospect of a $12 Bar Planet Martini to get you through the Monday blues!
Tio’s World’s Spiciest Marg
You can now add Da Bomb to your Spicy Marg at Tio’s! 🥵🌶️
If our Level 5 spiciest margarita wasn’t spicy enough for you, we’ve now added a whole new selection of hot sauces to the roster to ensure any Scoville-lovers can really knock their socks off. You can even add the infamous Da Bomb, as seen on ‘Hot Ones’.
Cantina OK! x Lyaness Pop-Up
Storm and Jeremy continued their tour of Europe with a pop-up alongside London cocktail bar Lyaness! Held at The Umbrella Workshop with a very special menu of Patrón drinks for three days only, they had the best time!
Cantina OK! x Tlecan
Our friends at Tlecan over in Mexico City sent over the recipe for their coveted Manzano-Grapefruit Jam that we used as the base of a delicious weekly special!
Bar Planet x Froomes
Listen up, dear and valued associates. This week we have incredible news. It is truly our honour at Bar Planet to announce our latest quality of life initiative:
The Froomesworld Scorpino™ 👽
Sour Apple Sorbet, Vodka, a Raspberry Gel drizzle and Prosecco - consider this a Jolly Rancher super smasher from the outskirts of yonder itself.
In life, people often set their sights on major ambitions like starting a family and getting a mortgage in Erskineville, hitting 'Checkout' on SSENSE without crippling post-purchase guilt, successfully parallel parking in front of everyone at Soulmate on a Saturday morning, or even just paying off that thicc HECs sausage. Well, for us, this one is at the absolute TOP of our list. Inter-planetary alignment with AN ICON.
Bar Planet “I Want To Believe” Merch Launch
Congratulations, you have finally uncovered the truth.
The “I Want To Believe” Olive Shirt was inspired by some fellow UFO-obsessed brethren. I love you Agent Mulder and Scully.
Bar Planet “UFO” One of Ones Merch
Tom DeLonge was right and we were wrong all along (leave a 🖖 in the chat)
We’ve been deep in the UFO-conspiracy-hole getting lobotomised by the internet, and we decided to make a limited run of fried merch to mark the occasion. In fact, it’s so fried we decided each shirt should only be printed once.
Please don’t beam me up, I’m scared of heights.
Cantina OK! x Mick Molloy
With this week’s special we are honouring mullet connoisseur and Cantina OK! fan Mick Molloy with his very own Coconut Margarita.
Making things extra-special is the edible wafer that will be served with each drink, emblazoned with Mick’s noggin sporting a mullet not too dissimilar to that of our very own Storm Evans.
Thanks to the Triple M Breakfast crew for heading down to Cantina OK! to try the drink and for all the love they’ve shown the bar on air.