Uncorked kitchen & wine bar articles
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Selena Cocktail Bar and Kitchen: New Sheffield bar seeks 1.30am opening ahead of summer launch
A new cocktail bar and restaurant launching soon just outside Sheffield city centre wants to open until 1.30am. Selena Cocktail Bar and Kitchen is due to open at New Era Square, off Bramall Lane, this summer. It describes itself as a ‘premium’ bar with ‘innovative cocktails and a Mediterranean menu’. It has now applied to Sheffield City Council for a licence which would allow it to serve alcohol from 9am until 1am Monday-Sunday, before closing to the public 30 minutes later. Get the latest...
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Australian cask wine taste test: ‘I could pour this here at the bar – no problem at all’
Sommelier Samantha Payne swills her way through nine glasses of red ‘chateau cardboard’, and uncovers aromas of ‘the Gold Coast in the 80s’ and ‘overcooked rhubarb’If you value our independent journalism, we hope you’ll consider supporting us todayGoon sack, goon bag or, simply, goon. Cask wine is deeply ingrained in the Australian ethos and vernacular (it’s also an Australian invention), long associated with “two-buck chuck”, cheap wine for cooking or uni students on a budget. But its negative...
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Burlington’s Blue Cat Steak & Wine Bar Closes After 18 Years
Blue Cat Steak & Wine Bar closed in April after an 18-year run at 1 Lawson Lane in Burlington. Owner Mariasha Giral announced the news in a goodbye letter printed in Seven Days but otherwise declined to comment. As of last week, the only other confirmation of Blue Cat's closure was its status as "permanently closed" on reservation site OpenTable. There were no signs at the cozy alleyway steakhouse — where tables were still set — or on its website, voicemail or social media. Giral and her...