Bar Herbs opens in Sydney

Sydney’s CBD has gained a new basement-level excuse to accidentally miss your train home: Bar Herbs, MUCHO Group’s latest after-dark playground dedicated to the noble martini. Think late-90s New York energy without the bad shoes and chain-smoking, tucked beneath Clarence Street like a neon-lit secret you suddenly feel strangely protective of.

Bar Herbs’ whole thing is simple - make martinis that taste great, don’t take themselves too seriously, and let people order them exactly the way they want. Dirty? Dry? Somewhere between ‘respectable’ and ‘who hurt you?’ They’ll tweak it to your liking without judgement.

Their signature lineup runs from seaweed-vodka dirty numbers to dill-spiked New York throwbacks, plus a Gibson that’s super herbaceous.

If you’re not on your martini era, the broader menu dips into revamped classics; a yuzu-and-hibiscus Cosmo that’s a little too tasty, a pandan Espresso Martini (finally, something new), and a Negroni built with enough vermouth to make Milan blush.

It’s all overseen by MUCHO’s famously people-first crew, who are on a mission to make Sydney more fun, one excellent drink at a time. And with a daily happy hour slinging AU$13 martinis and AU$7 beers, they clearly mean business.

So yes, paradise might actually be a basement. And it might be called Bar Herbs. Just take the stairs down and let your evening unravel from there.

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