Possibly it is the luck of the Irish. On September 25, Sternewirth Tavern & Membership Room in San Antonio’s Resort Emma will host a takeover by Useless Rabbit, the New York Metropolis and Austin pub as soon as named the world’s greatest by worldwide business record The World’s 50 Greatest Bars.
Named after an Irish avenue gang energetic within the mid-1800s, Useless Rabbit opened in 2013 in Manhattan’s Monetary District. Since then, it has change into a nexus for international cocktail followers, modernizing the customarily kitschy Irish bar class with up to date cocktails and a hip vibe that avoids campy stereotypes like shamrocks and leprechauns.
It adopted up on its success in summer time 2024 with the opening of a second outpost on Austin’s famed Sixth Avenue. The bar was such an in a single day smash that it debuted the Grá Mór Café a yr later.
“By way of what we’re attempting to point out Austin, it is a new model of Eire. It is Eire very a lot of right now,” Useless Rabbit co-founder and proprietor Jack McGarry informed Austin CultureMap on the time. “It is to point out that Irish tradition, Irish drinks, Irish meals are among the many absolute best on the earth.”
The Sternewirth pop-up will characteristic rum maker Bacardi’s portfolio of spirits in 4 cocktails. Company can count on a frozen Irish espresso, the apricot and whiskey-spiked Usquæbach, the rum-based Pear Requirements, and Flying Boat, a tropical curiosity made with tequila, gin, coconut, and lime leaf.
The pop-up, held between 5-10 pm, can be one night time solely. Each resort friends are welcome to attend, and neither a canopy nor reservations are required. Useless Rabbit had no plans to open a San Antonio location.
This fall, Resort Emma is updating the ante on its culinary programming. Among the many can’t-miss occasions on the calendar is a September 26 dinner with Otto’s Ice Home founder Levi Goode, a September 28 wild recreation feast with Resort Emma Govt Chef Geronimo Lopez, and an October 20 go to from Thomas Bille of Spring’s Michelin-recognized Stomach of the Beast. A full record of occasions may be discovered on-line.
