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Time Out
5 days ago
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- Time Out
Viral Christmas bars Miracle and Sippin' Santa announce their winter 2025 lineup
It may seem early to be thinking about Christmas but on the other hand, when you start looking at these photos of two viral pop-up bars, you will immediately want to be dusting silver glitter onto miniature evergreen trees, hoisting up holly and garlands and easing your body into sleek red velvet tops (or, conversely, ugly Christmas sweaters). Miracle and Sippin' Santa, two incredibly festive pop-up bars, are returning in 2025 with more than 200 locations worldwide. Miracle offers Christmas drinks in a kitschy setting with the kind of décor you are used to seeing at Grandma's (there's also a Hanukkah area, yay!), with cocktails like the Christmapolitan, the Blitzen Barrel and the Run Run Reindeer. If you order the Naughty Shot or the Nice Shot, it comes in a keepsake Miracle glass you can take home. There are also nonalcoholic options including a Snow Day Sipper and a Silent Night. Miracle will open in November at close to 150 locations worldwide. Each location comes with the name of the address tacked on to sound like Miracle on 34th Street, such as Miami's Miracle on 8th Street or Denver's Miracle on Highway 16. Sippin' Santa carries a tropical theme into the holidays: think Santa meets tiki. The beverages trend towards coconut and pineapple, like the Coco Ho Ho Ho served in a porcelain coconut or the Nui Nui New Year, a multi-person drink with Santa and a friend lounging in a porcelain hot tub with a lime and orchid garnish and a surfboard stir stick. It's all playful and geared to get you into the holiday spirit with a loopy grin. Sippin' Santa will open in November 18 in about 45 cities across the globe (Santa can use his sleigh to get between locations quickly, but hopefully you can find good public transportation). Tiki genius Jeff 'Beachbum' Berry collaborates with Sippin' Santa to create the cocktails—he owns Latitude 29 in New Orleans, which is of course one of the locations for the pop-up. Mysteriously, there's a Secret Santa drink on the menu, only offered at some locations (you're told to ask your bartender). One of the nonalcoholic drinks here is adorably called the Designated Sledder. You put the clove in the coconut and drink them both up—merry months-away Christmas! Check out the locations for Miracle below: Birmingham, AL – Miracle on 24th Street (at Hold Your Horses) Montgomery, AL – Miracle at Hilltop Public House Bentonville, AR – Miracle on 2nd Street (at Undercroft) Phoenix, AZ – Miracle at Floor 13 (at Floor 13 Rooftop) Scottsdale, AZ – Miracle at The BLVD Perth, Australia – Miracle at Crown Perth Folsom, CA – Miracle at Yager Lodge Fresno, CA – Miracle at Modernist Gilroy, CA – Miracle at Pop's Public House Hermosa Beach, CA – Miracle at Molloy's (at Patrick Molloy's) Livermore, CA – Miracle at The Fat Pigeon Long Beach, CA – Miracle at The Ordinarie Los Angeles, CA – Miracle at Denae's Oakland, CA – Miracle on Telegraph (at The Double Standard) Palm Springs, CA – Miracle at Truss & Twine Paso Robles, CA – Miracle at 1122 Cocktail Lounge Petaluma, CA – Miracle at Brewsters Beer Garden Rohnert Park, CA – Miracle at Waterhawk Lake Club Sacramento, CA – Miracle on Broadway (at The Butterscotch Den) Sacramento, CA – Miracle on R Street (at The Snug) San Carlos, CA – Miracle on TBA San Diego, CA – Miracle at Botanica Bar San Diego, CA – Miracle at Coaster Saloon San Francisco, CA – Miracle at PCH San Jose, CA – Miracle at MINIBOSS San Jose, CA – Miracle on 1st (at Paper Plane) Santa Barbara, CA – Miracle at The Funk Zone (at Pearl Social) Santa Cruz, CA – Miracle at Front & Cooper Santa Rosa, CA – Miracle at Beer Baron Santa Rosa Solvang, CA – Miracle at Craft House at Corque Temecula, CA – Miracle on Front Street (at Coin-Op Game Room) Abbotsford BC, Canada – Miracle at Old Yale Brewing Beaumont AB, Canada – Miracle at Old Yale Brewing Calgary AB, Canada – Miracle on 1st Street YYC (at Proof) Collingwood ON, Canada – Miracle on Hurontario Street (at The Historic Gayety) Montreal QC, Canada – Miracle at 132 Bar Vintage Montreal QC, Canada – Miracle at TBA Ottawa ON, Canada – Miracle at Elgin Beer Project Quebec City QC, Canada – Miracle at Maelstrom Saint-Roch Toronto ON, Canada – Miracle on Bloor Street (at Third Place) Toronto ON, Canada – Miracle at Harbourfront Whistler BC, Canada – Miracle at The Raven Room West Bay, Cayman Islands – Miracle at Door No. 4 San Jose, Costa Rica – Miracle at Buchon Cantina Denver, CO – Miracle at The Terminal Bar (Union Station) Golden, CO – Miracle at The Eddy Newtown, CT – Miracle at Perfusion Stamford, CT – Miracle at Flinders Lane Stratford, CT – Miracle at Riley's by the Seawall Westport, CT – Miracle at Black Duck Washington, D.C. – Miracle at Death Punch Bar London, England – Miracle at Henrietta Hotel Gainesville, FL – Miracle at Cry Baby's and Baby J's Hallandale Beach, FL – Miracle at TBA Jacksonville, FL – Miracle on the Square (at Grape & Grain Exchange) Lantana, FL – Miracle at Ravish Miami, FL – Miracle on 8th Street (at Casa Tiki) Orlando, FL – Miracle on Orange (at The Courtesy) Sarasota, FL – Miracle at Tamiami Tap Seaside, FL Miracle at The Daytrader Tiki Bar and Restaurant St. Augustine, FL – Miracle at Forgotten Tonic St. Petersburg, FL – Miracle at Bar Mezzo Tampa, FL – Miracle at TBA Tavares, FL – Miracle on Main (at BTW's Crafted Concoctions) Athens, GA – Miracle at The Expat Atlanta, GA – Miracle on Monroe Davenport, IA – Miracle at TBA Des Moines, IA – Miracle on Ingersoll (at The Station on Ingersoll) Des Moines, IA – Miracle at TBA Twin Falls, ID – Miracle at Griff's Speakeasy Effingham, IL – Miracle at Wheat Penny Fort Wayne, IN – Miracle on Jefferson (at Copper Spoon) Manhattan, KS – Miracle on Moro (at The Hi Lo) Covington, KY – Miracle on Madison (at Galaxie Bar) Louisville, KY – Miracle on Market (at Galaxie Bar) Baton Rouge, LA – Miracle on Bennington (at The Station) Hammond, LA – Miracle at One Thirteen Restaurant Lafayette, LA – Miracle at Pamplona Tapas Bar & Restaurant New Orleans, LA – Miracle on Magazine (at Barrel Proof) Cambridge, MA – Miracle at Bambara Kitchen and Bar (at Kimpton Hotel Marlowe) Malden, MA – Miracle at Mystic Station Newburyport, MA – Miracle at The Goat Salem, MA – Miracle at The Goat Baltimore, MD – Miracle at Leinie Lodge & Beer Garden Detroit, MI – Miracle at Dragonfly Detroit, MI – Miracle at The Oakland Minneapolis, MN – Miracle at TBA Kansas City, MO – Miracle on the Plaza Kansas City, MO – Miracle at TBA St. Louis, MO – Miracle at Small Change Jackson, MS – Miracle at Apothecary Asheville, NC – Miracle on Haywood Road (at The Golden Pineapple) Charlotte, NC – Miracle at BackStage Lounge Chimney Rock, NC – Miracle on Main Street (at Chimney Rock Smokehouse) Denver, NC – Miracle on HWY 16 (Latitudes) Durham, NC – Miracle at Coupe and Stein Hickory, NC – Miracle at City Walk Brewing's No Entry Lounge Raleigh, NC – Miracle at The Haymaker Raleigh, NC – Miracle at Killjoy Minot, ND – Miracle at TBA Lincoln, NE – Miracle at Robber's Cave Portsmouth, NH – Miracle at The Goat Portsmouth Oslo, Norway – Miracle at Døgnvill Burger Freehold, NJ – Miracle at iPlay America Jersey City, NJ – Miracle on Mercer (at Franklin Social) New Brunswick, NJ – Miracle on George Street (at Catherine Lombardi Restaurant) Nutley, NJ – Miracle on Centre (at Cowan's Public) Ridgewood, NJ – Miracle on North Broad Street (at Steel Wheel Tavern) Verona, NJ – Miracle on Bloomfield (at The Parkside Social) Albuquerque, NM – Miracle at Happy Accidents Las Vegas, NV – Miracle on Spring Mountain (at The Sand Dollar Lounge) Brooklyn, NY – Miracle on Union (at Thief) New York, NY – Miracle on 9th Street (at The Cabinet) Rochester, NY – Miracle at Jack's Extra Fancy Cincinnati, OH – Miracle at The Overlook Lodge Cleveland, OH – Miracle on 4th Street (at Society Lounge) Columbus, OH – Miracle at The Citizens Trust Dublin, OH – Miracle at Palm Valley Oklahoma City, OK – Miracle at Social Capital Portland, OR – Miracle at Deadshot Panama City, Panama – Miracle at aMano New Hope, PA – Miracle at Logan Inn Pittsburgh, PA – Miracle on 6th Providence, RI – Miracle on Chalkstone (at Gilligan's Pub) Charleston, SC – Miracle at Saltwater Cowboys Columbia, SC – Miracle on Bull Street (at Publico) Greenville, SC – Miracle at Southernside Brewing Co. Myrtle Beach, SC – Miracle on 76th Ave North (at JEM Social) Chattanooga, TN – Miracle on Broad Street (at No Hard Feelings) Knoxville, TN – Miracle at Brother Wolf Memphis, TN – Miracle at TBA Nashville, TN – Miracle at Goodtimes Arlington, TX – Miracle at Texas Live! (Miller Tavern & Beer Garden) Austin, TX – Miracle on 5th Street (at The Eleanor) The Colony, TX – Miracle at TBA Dallas, TX – Miracle at Hide Fort Worth, TX – Miracle on South Main (at Nickel City Fort Worth) Galveston, TX – Miracle at Daiquiri Time Out Houston, TX – Miracle at Johnny's Gold Brick Houston, TX – Miracle at Winnie's San Antonio, TX – Miracle on Commerce Street (at The Esquire Tavern) Ashburn, VA – Miracle on Exchange Street (at Sense of Thai) Norfolk, VA – Miracle on Waterside Drive Richmond, VA – Miracle on Cary (at The Jasper) Roanoke, VA – Miracle at Stellina Ludlow, VT – Miracle at on Main Street (at Main + Mountain) Seattle, WA – Miracle on 2nd (at Rob Roy) Spokane, WA – Miracle on Post Street (at Volstead Act) Tacoma, WA – Miracle on 6th Ave (at Busy Body) Madison, WI – Miracle on King Street (at Lucille) Milwaukee, WI – Miracle on 2nd Street (at The Tin Widow) Check out the locations for Sippin' Santa below: Birmingham, AL – Sippin' Santa at TBA Phoenix, AZ – Sippin' Santa at Bitter & Twisted Calgary AB, Canada – Sippin' Santa at Ricardo's Hideaway Hamilton ON, Canada – Sippin' Santa at Maipai Ottawa ON, Canada – Sippin' Santa at The Standard El Segundo, CA – Sippin' Santa at Sauced BBQ & Spirits Irvine CA – Sippin' Santa at Sauced BBQ & Spirits Orange, CA – Sippin' Santa at Sauced BBQ & Spirits Paso Robles, CA – Sippin' Santa at Cane Tiki Room Pleasanton, CA – Sippin' Santa at Beer Baron Sacramento, CA – Sippin' Santa at The Jungle Bird San Diego, CA – Sippin' Santa at The Grass Skirt San Francisco, CA – Sippin' Santa at Kona's Street Market San Jose, CA – Sippin' Santa at 55 South San Jose, CA – Sippin' Santa at Courage Anyone Santa Barbara, CA – Sippin' Santa at La Arcada (at S.B Court House Distillery) Santa Rosa, CA – Sippin' Santa at Flamingo's Lazeaway Club Arvada, CO – Sippin' Santa at Bernard's Tiki Room Aurora, CO – Sippin' Santa at TBA Washington, D.C. – Sippin' Santa at Black Whiskey Daytona Beach, FL – Sippin' Santa at Polynesian Fire Luau Jacksonville, FL – Sippin' Santa at The Red Gill Bistro Miami, FL – Sippin' Santa at TBA Orlando, FL – Sippin' Santa at Live! at the Pointe Orlando West Palm Beach, FL – Sippin' Santa at Juicy Cocktail Bar Athens, GA – Sippin' Santa at Nighthawks Lounge Savannah, GA – Sippin' Santa at Bamboo Room Tiki Bar River Grove, IL – Sippin' Santa at Hala Kahiki Tiki Lounge Fort Wayne, IN – Sippin' Santa at Night Train Indianapolis, IN – Sippin' Santa at Almost Famous Kobe, Japan – Sippin' Santa at the Kazan Room Baton Rouge, LA – Sippin' Santa at Pelican to Mars New Orleans, LA – Sippin' Santa at Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 Boston, MA – Sippin' Santa at Shore Leave Detroit, MI – Sippin' Santa at The Skip Minneapolis, MN – Sippin' Santa at AC Hotel Minneapolis Kansas City, MO – Sippin' Santa at The Hey! Hey! Club (J. Rieger & Co) St. Louis, MO – Sippin' Santa at Planter's House Asheville, NC – Sippin' Santa at The Tiki Easy Bar Charlotte, NC – Sippin' Santa at The Royal Tot Raleigh, NC – Sippin' Santa at Wye Hill Kitchen & Brewing Brooklyn, NY – Sippin Santa on Grand Street (at The Last Call) Lincoln, NE – Sippin' Santa at TBA
Time Out
12-08-2025
- Time Out
I've found Australia's cutest café – and the food might be better than your grandma's
Everything tastes better when grandma makes it – but I've just discovered a café that gives mine a run for their money. It's cosy, charming and serves homestyle dishes inspired by recipes from real grandmas and grandpas around the world. And the best part? It's tucked away in Northern Queensland, miles from the big-city buzz – so you can turn your visit into a delicious little coastal holiday. Just a block back from the beach in Townsville, Grandma's is a second home for locals and a popular spot for tourists passing by. This was confirmed by the lovely lady seated next to me, who leaned in while I was browsing the menu and admitted, 'I've only been in Townsville for a few days, but this is already my second visit.' With leafy greenery, mismatched potted plants and a couple of quaint sidewalk tables out front, Grandma's has that kind of charm that makes you want to come in. Inside, it felt like I'd walked straight into my own grandparents' home – warm, familiar and full of nostalgia. A comfy leather sofa sat on a patterned rug by the door, and a marble coffee table held a bowl of fresh lemons and a pot of flowers – the kind of homely touch you just don't see in city cafés. I settled into a cosy corner table beside a rustic cabinet filled with a collection of mix-and-match plates and teapots, just like the ones my grandmother passed down to me. While the decor is incredibly charming, it was the stories behind the food that really touched me. Every dish on the menu at Grandma's is a cherished family recipe, passed down from grandparents across the globe – mainly those of the owner and her team of chefs. You could start your morning in the Mediterranean with grandma Haya's signature shakshuka – the café's most popular dish. It features a rich tomato, onion and capsicum sauce, baked in a hot iron pan with two eggs and served with homemade challah or sourdough on the side. I opted for the half-half option: one side featured the classic sauce with the addition of open-fire eggplant and labneh, while the other was layered with spinach and feta. Just like my own grandma's cooking, the portion was incredibly generous, and I used the warm, plaited bread to mop up every last bite. I was tempted to take a detour through Greece with grandma Fedra's veal moussaka, head to Italy for grandpa Vince's homemade beef bolognese or tuck into grandma Mazal's magadra bowl – a comforting mix of rice, lentils and onions, served with tzatziki and fresh salad. Eastern Europe is also represented with traditional blintzes (thin rolled crepes with fillings), while Aussie classics like ricotta pancakes and smashed avo toast also get a run on the menu. If I'd had room for dessert, I would've raided the sweets cabinet, which was packed with homemade cakes and cookies, including a decadent Basque cheesecake. Instead, I rolled out with a very happy belly and a big bag of biscotti for the road.
The Guardian
05-02-2025
- The Guardian
‘Everyone is on tenterhooks': Santorini streets empty after days of tremors
On the second day of feeling the ground shake under her feet, Veroniki Balabonidi decided it was to time to leave Santorini. At 4.30am on Sunday she and her two young children were on a ferry bound for the port of Piraeus, surrounded by other families fleeing the Aegean isle. 'It was absolutely packed with residents like us who had had enough of the uncertainty,' she said, speaking from the home of her parents-in-law in Athens. 'Feeling the earth shudder so often is very unsettling, but it wasn't that so much. Us locals, we're used to earthquakes. It was the volcano – the fear that it could erupt and start spewing very toxic smoke – that was our real worry.' By Tuesday about 6,000 people – although some estimates put the exodus at nearly twice that – had followed suit, using any means available: planes, boats and even private yachts and pleasure launches. Aegean, the country's national carrier, announced that in the space of 48 hours it had flown 2,700 passengers from Santorini to the Greek capital after doubling flights to the island from Monday. As night fell on a day punctuated by tremors – and at 5.0 magnitude the strongest earthquake yet – the streets and alleys of Fira, the island's spectacular clifftop town, were eerily empty, shops shuttered, tavernas closed. Local people had left and so too had most of the foreign workers and tourists visiting out of season. For the first time that anyone could remember, Santorini was in a quiet zone. 'I've heard of holidaymakers leaving and asking hoteliers for their money back,' said Artemios Drossos, who has run Grandma's, an eatery in Fira, for more than two decades. 'It's easy to understand why. What's happening is very unnatural, one earthquake after the other in such quick succession, but me personally I've got accustomed to them and I'm booked on a flight back there from Athens this weekend. I've got things to do and I'm looking forward to it.' Panagiotis Hatzigeorgiou, a retired police officer and ship worker, echoed that sentiment. 'Now we can listen to music alone and have coffee by ourselves,' he told the Associated Press. A global destination in the chain of Cycladic isles, Santorini is Europe's most popular island, drawing a record 3.5 million tourists last year. Much of its attraction is down to a beauty born of a volcanic eruption – viewed as the greatest in human history – that occurred 3,500 years ago, leaving the island crescent-shaped, ash-covered and with vast cliffs of lava. By any measure, the waters around Santorini have been hit by an unusually intense cluster of earthquakes in the past 72 hours. More than 300 undersea tremors have been recorded, many in excess of 4.5 on the Richter scale. In less than 50 minutes before 8am on Tuesday, when pupils would normally be attending their first class – schools in Santorini and 12 other islands in the Aegean had been shut by the Greek civil protection ministry – seismographs registered six earthquakes, two at magnitudes of 4.8 and 4.9. If seismologists agree on anything it is that the faultline that produced a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 1956, leaving 53 dead and more than 100 injured, has been 'activated' between Santorini and Amorgos, the Cyclades' easternmost isle. 'Everyone I know has been sleeping outside, in their cars, with one member of the family staying awake all night to keep watch,' Balabonidi said. 'I'm 38 and have never experienced anything like it. Everyone is on tenterhooks.' For natural disaster experts, the big question now is whether the seismic activity is a precursor of a much more powerful earthquake – one that could, perhaps, trigger a tsumani – or even of a volcanic eruption. As the tremors have intensified, rockslides have multiplied. Emergency and rescue teams dispatched to the island have described sonic waves that amount to a near constant rumbling. Santorini's volcano last erupted in 1950 and experts say the time is approaching for when it might 'let off steam' again. A second underwater volcano – five miles north-east of Santorini and also active – had caused further alarm because it was closer to the epicentres of the earthquakes. Greece's climate crisis and civil protection ministry said last week that monitoring sensors had picked up 'mild seismic-volcanic activity' inside the island's caldera. 'We believe the volcano has small explosions on average every 50 years … so we are within the timeframe [for it to happen],' said Costas Synolakis, an internationally renowned pioneer in the field of natural disasters, ruling out a bigger explosion on the basis that they happen 'every 17,000 years'. He told Skai TV: 'We have to watch the volcano very closely. We can't rule out any scenario.' Some remained unconcerned. Wataru Saito, 43, an economist who had spent a day on the island, told AFP: 'I'm not so worried about the earthquake or volcano, because I came from Tokyo.'
