Here today, gone tomorrow, bars have a reputation for short-term success. But a few have the ability to ride the times and keep on top of the game.

I was sitting in The Groucho Club one late summer's evening discussing with a now well known haute couture designer, the new wave of drinking culture that was enveloping the capital, arguing that London really had never been so exciting. Up until that point, drinks were very much a secondary element of the overall experience - wine was simply… Continue

Born in Warsaw in 1954, while the city was under communist rule. As a child his family were constantly on the move to avoid the persecution of intellectuals. In 1980 at age 26 he left Poland for good with nothing but a small suitcase and his passport. He spent time hitchhiking across Europe before settling down in Dortmund where he got married and had two children.



Andrzej came to Australia in the early 1980s. He had a passion for food, drink and hospitality. After some time he… Continue

Andrzej's Borsch, Vodka and Tears accompanies a recipe for a Clean work of art. It's one that he recalls from his young life in Poland before WWII. It was my mum's recipe, he says. I recollect how she would make it when I was a small child. So what's going on here? It's borscht - beetroot soup with vegetables, he makes sense of. We serve it with vodka shots as an afterthought. It could seem like a strange mix yet Andrzej demands that they go together like bread and butter. There are many…

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