A$15 signature cocktails, exclusive offers and a secret menu in bars across Newcastle NSW. Sign up for first access to Newcastle NSW's biggest ever cocktail festival.
A$15 signature cocktailsMade for the week, in every bar taking part
Exclusive offersFood deals and extras with your wristband
A secret menuServes you won't find the rest of the year
We started Cocktail Week for one reason: to get people out supporting local hospitality. Bars and restaurants are the heart of a town and they work hard all year round. For 10 days, we bring the whole city together behind them, with signature cocktails created just for the week, mocktails at every venue and a reason to try somewhere new. Every wristband means more people through local doors and more money staying in Newcastle NSW.
Localbars and restaurants only
1wristband for every bar
10days of new faces for Newcastle NSW hospitality
Show them some love
Try at least one bar you've never been to
Tag the venue and #NewcastleNSWCocktailWeek when you post
Leave them a review if they looked after you
Vote for your favourite signature cocktail of the week
What ten days looks like
Coming to Newcastle NSW
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Sours made for the weekShaken, strained, servedRound up the crewA signature in every barCheers to thatSomething new in every barA bit of theatreFinished by handMake a night of it
FAQs
Good to know
What is Newcastle Cocktail Week NSW?
Newcastle Cocktail Week NSW is Newcastle NSW's ten-day cocktail festival in the best bars and restaurants across the city, with exclusive cocktails from A$15, mocktails and food offers. Buy one wristband and explore at your own pace over two weekends.
How does the wristband work?
One wristband unlocks every venue's Cocktail Week cocktail and offers for the whole ten days. Buy your wristband online, collect it at an official collection point and wear it when you visit participating venues. Participating venues will be listed here before the event. Show it when ordering to unlock their Cocktail Week cocktails and offers. You pay each venue directly for your drinks and food. Collection points, dates and opening hours will be listed here and emailed to you closer to the event.
Can I visit more than one venue?
Yes, as many as you like. Your wristband works across all participating venues for the full event. Try somewhere new, return to a favourite or spread your plans across both weekends.
Where can I see the venues and offers?
The e-guide will be published here before the event. You'll also get a printed guide with a map when you collect your wristband.
Why are there different ticket prices?
Wristbands are released in price stages, so the earlier you book the less you pay. Every wristband unlocks the same offers. Any booking fee is shown at checkout. (Top tip: save the most with our Group tickets!)
Where do I collect my wristband?
Collection points, dates and opening hours will be listed here and emailed to you closer to the event. Bring your barcode ready to scan. You can collect before the event or pick it up before your first venue visit.
Can I come for the mocktails?
Yes. Every participating venue offers a mocktail and many have food deals too. The guide will be published here before the event.
Do I need to book a table?
Only where the venue takes bookings. Your wristband doesn't guarantee entry or a table, so book directly with the venue where you can. It's especially worth planning ahead for food or busy weekend evenings.
When are the offers available?
Cocktail Week offers run throughout the event during participating venues' normal opening hours. The guide will be published here before the event, with venue details and booking information.
Can I get a refund?
Wristbands aren't refundable if you change your mind. This doesn't affect your rights under Australian Consumer Law.
Who can go?
Cocktail Week is 18+ and venues may ask for ID.
Need a hand?
Email hello@cocktail-week.com with Newcastle NSW and booking reference if you have one. For urgent questions during the event, message our Instagram.
How can I sign up my venue?
Complete Newcastle NSW's registration form, then submit your offers through the deals form so we can create your listing. If you're registering several venues, complete a form for each location.
Interested in partnering with Cocktail Week?
Yes. We work with drinks brands, precincts, councils, sponsors and media and travel partners. Put your brand in front of bars, bartenders and customers across the UK, Ireland and now Australia. Our campaigns reach millions of people across our events. Make an enquiry
For brands and partners
Partner with the UK and Ireland's biggest hospitality and cocktail event
Put your brand at the heart of the hospitality industry. Cocktail Week connects you with an extensive network of bars, bartenders and customers, with campaigns reaching millions of people across our events.
We work with drinks brands, BIDs, councils, sponsors and media, hotel and travel partners. From getting your product into bartenders' hands to bringing new customers through venue doors, we build partnerships that turn awareness into trial, sales and lasting relationships.
Cocktail Week: Ten days. One wristband. Your town's best bars.
For ten days at a time, the best bars and restaurants in a town come together with signature cocktails from £5, food deals and exclusive offers. One wristband unlocks all of it.
Launch night.Filmed at the Manchester Cocktail Week launch party
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About Cocktail Week
We get people out to local bars, town by town.
Cocktail Week is the ten-day cocktail festival that comes to your town: one wristband, with a signature cocktail and a mocktail in every bar taking part. It started in Dundee in 2022 to help hospitality bounce back after Covid. Today it runs across the UK and Ireland, built with each town's bars, bartenders, drinks brands and local partners.
Behind it is M.AD Agency, a Dundee marketing and events company that has spent years getting people out of the house and through a door, from student nights and clubs to campaigns for local and national brands. Our partners range from local BIDs and councils to drinks companies like Diageo.
Alice created Cocktail Week to celebrate and support hospitality. What began as a single event in Dundee has now been held in 23 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland. Alice and the team at M.AD Agency work closely with local venues and brand partners so each event reflects what makes that town's bar scene special.
"From day one, we've put venues at the heart of everything we do. We make sure they feel supported and see real results."Alice Christison, founder
Find your Cocktail Week
Where's it happening?
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What ten days looks like
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Why it matters
Built to put people through local doors
No two Cocktail Weeks are the same. Each one is built with the venues, drinks brands and bartenders of that place and every attendee who walks through a door is money spent in local hospitality.
Made for each location
Every event is built around the venues and bartenders that make that town's hospitality scene worth going out for.
The best venues and drinks
Signature serves created for the week, leading drinks brands and the area's top bartenders, all in one place.
Real footfall for real businesses
Ten days of people actively looking for somewhere new to go. That's the point of it.
How it works
Three steps to your best week out
Find your location
Pick your town to see the venues, cocktails and offers taking part.
Get your wristband
Buy online, then collect your wristband from a collection point before or during the week.
Get out there
Show your wristband for signature cocktails from £5 and exclusive deals, as often as you like for ten days.
Safe, welcoming nights out
We support Ask for Angela
Cocktail Week is proud to support Ask for Angela, the national campaign that helps bars and restaurants keep creating safe, welcoming spaces for everyone. If you ever want a hand on a night out, just ask a member of staff for "Angela" at a participating venue and they'll quietly help.
Cocktail Week puts your venue in front of thousands of people actively looking for somewhere to go and gives your regulars another reason to come back. We run the marketing, press and brand partnerships. You pour the drinks.
30%average sales uplift reported by venues
73%of venues see cocktail sales rise by 10% or more
2,000+signature cocktails sold by top venues in one week
Choose your city and we'll open its registration form.
What's included
Your venue and signature cocktail on the event website, map and printed guide
Social, email and influencer campaigns to the local Cocktail Week audience
Press coverage and drinks brand partnerships
A launch pack with graphics ready for your own channels
Post-event sales and feedback report
The success of the first York Cocktail Week was overwhelming. It's been a great week for hospitality and hopefully will have repeat customers who have enjoyed the experience.
What venues say
Ten days that venues feel
"The success of the first York Cocktail Week was overwhelming. It's been a great week for hospitality and hopefully will have repeat customers who have enjoyed the experience."
Participating venue, York
"Cardiff Cocktail Week really helped us get our name out there with a new crowd. It made a big difference and we're hoping it cements us as a daytime cocktail spot."
Participating venue, Cardiff
"We saw loads of new faces, people who might not usually stumble across our bar. The energy during the event was amazing."
Participating venue, Cardiff
For brands and partners
Partner with the UK and Ireland's biggest hospitality and cocktail event
Put your brand at the heart of the hospitality industry. Cocktail Week connects you with an extensive network of bars, bartenders and customers, with campaigns reaching millions of people across our events.
We work with drinks brands, BIDs, councils, sponsors and media, hotel and travel partners. From getting your product into bartenders' hands to bringing new customers through venue doors, we build partnerships that turn awareness into trial, sales and lasting relationships.
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