Old Love's

Sydney, Australia

Located below Sydney’s Old Mate’s Place, and from the same team, is Old Love’s. First opened in October 2023, the site previously held pop-up bar Ginny’s Canoe Club has been transformed into a tropical drinking den, drawing on the earliest days of tiki for inspiration, before the most garish and colourful of the genre’s excesses. It’s all about rum here – Caribbean rum in particular – but also spanning everything that the world of sugarcane spirits has to offer. Co-owner Dre Walters has written The Book on Rum, outlining the rums on offer, complete with cocktail suggestions. The bar’s cocktail menu is well worth exploring, but it’s the hundreds of bottles of rum that are the real focal point here as well as a sugarcane press providing fresh juice as a simple, approachable mixer. There’s a Caribbean-inspired bar food menu to soak it all up, too.

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Location

Basement/199 Clarence St, CBD, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000