Cambus Wallace
Nautical bar
Named after a ship that sank off the Gold Coast in 1894, with a whisky menu, classic cocktails, aged spirits and regular live acoustic music.
📍 4/2237 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218
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Sueño
Rooftop bar
A Latin American-inspired rooftop from the Rick Shores team in The Oxley precinct at Nobby Beach, with beach views, share plates and bug tacos.
📍 2217 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218
Suga
Rum bar
A plantation-style rum bar with a speakeasy feel and live entertainment every night it opens, Thursday to Sunday from 6pm.
📍 1142 Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach QLD 4221
Six Tricks Distillery
Distillery and cocktail bar
A working distillery and cocktail bar making six spirits on site, a short walk from The Star. Its vodka martini is a standout.
📍 2460 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218
The Gin Parlour
Gin bar
A gin bar at Miami Marketta with more than 105 gins and gin tasting boards.
📍 Miami Marketta, 23 Hillcrest Parade, Miami QLD 4220
Granddad Jack's Craft Distillery
Distillery bar
Billed as the Gold Coast's first craft distillery of its kind, making gin, vodka and whiskey.
📍 45 Lemana Lane, Miami QLD 4220
Burly Bar
Gin bar
A two-level gin bar and cellar door pouring award-winning Burly gins, with small plates and guided tasting flights.
📍 60 Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin QLD 4223
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Your questions
Where can I drink whisky, gin or agave in Gold Coast?
Start with Cambus Wallace, Sueño, Suga, Six Tricks Distillery and The Gin Parlour. Our full list has 7 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Now we're bringing it to Australia. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides, including Experience Gold Coast, Must Do Gold Coast and Urban List.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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