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The article reports that Three Horses Bar has won the 2027 Bar of the Year award from the Good Food Guide. Located in Melbourne, it is run by Rob Libecans, Matt Stirling, and Ryan Noreiks, who also own Caretaker’s Cottage, which won the same award in 2022. The bar focuses on sherry and offers innovative cocktails, such as a daiquiri made with sugar snap peas and a sherry cobbler enhanced with gochujang, while maintaining an engaging and welcoming atmosphere for its patrons.
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Rob Libecans, Matt Stirling, and Ryan Noreiks have won the prestigious Good Food Guide Bar of the Year 2027 award for their new venue, Three Horses, in Melbourne. This win follows their previous success with Caretaker’s Cottage, which also claimed the same honor in 2022. Three Horses, located near Caretaker’s Cottage, distinguishes itself through its unique focus on sherry and inventive cocktails, offering patrons a new drinking experience. The bar features a distinctive horse mural and offers a diverse menu of rare sherry varieties and creative cocktail creations like sugar snap pea daiquiris and gochujang-infused sherry cobblers. This achievement solidifies the trio’s reputation in Melbourne's cocktail scene.
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Rob Libecans, Matt Stirling and Ryan Noreiks will go down in Melbourne cocktail history, and they would have even if they’d never opened Three Horses, the winner of this year’s Good Food Guide Bar of the Year.
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Caretaker’s Cottage, the trio’s other venue (and the winner of the same accolade in 2022), already had them on the global map for its historic location, music-geek sound system and incomparable freezer martinis.
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Three Horses, which sits just stumbling distance from Caretaker’s, had to be different enough to warrant expansion while maintaining all of the excellence that we’ve come to expect from this crew.
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We’ve gotta say: they hit it out of the park.
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This is one of the most convivial rooms in the city, its bar backed by a dream-like horse mural that’s park Lisa Frank, part Salvador Dali.
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The menu’s focus on sherry offers a whole new playground for drinkers, from hard-to-find, interesting pours to truly ingenious cocktails.
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This spring saw a daiquiri made with sugar snap peas, while your sherry cobbler might get its depth from gochujang.
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The bar team are smart and engaged and seem genuinely happy to be there, leaving the cliche of the serious cocktail bar as a bastion of snobbery firmly in the past, where it belongs.
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That’s the beauty of Three Horses: it subverts and exceeds expectations at every delicious, joyous, sherry-soaked turn.
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Good Food reviews are booked anonymously and paid independently.
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A restaurant can’t pay for a review or inclusion in the Good Food Guide.
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