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Double Deuce Lounge

There’s no better nightcap in the city than DD’s minty, boozy, Fernet-Branca-buzzing Stinger.

Double Deuce Lounge in Sydney.
1 / 5Double Deuce Lounge in Sydney.Dominic Lorrimer
The Stinger cocktail.
2 / 5The Stinger cocktail.Dominic Lorrimer
Inside the Sydney bar.
3 / 5Inside the Sydney bar.Dominic Lorrimer
Cosmopolitan cocktail.
4 / 5Cosmopolitan cocktail.Dominic Lorrimer
From left: Sebastian “Cosmo” Soto, Alicia Clarke, Michael Jury and Glynn Firth.
5 / 5From left: Sebastian “Cosmo” Soto, Alicia Clarke, Michael Jury and Glynn Firth.Janie Barrett

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We’ve said it before, and we’re going to keep saying it: there’s no better nightcap in the city than DD’s minty, boozy, Fernet-Branca-buzzing Stinger. But the 1970s-channelling basement bar is also the kind of place where you want to sink into a booth for the whole evening, order a bowl of Jatz crackers and French onion dip, and put yourself in the hands of cocktail champions Alicia Clarke and Sebastian “Cosmo” Soto for a dealer’s choice. Pretence-free. Fun-times forward.

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