Everything We Know About Mucho Group’s Two New Bars Opening This Year

If you ask us, 2025 was the year Australia’s cocktail bar scene stepped things up across the board. In Sydney, most of the recent action can be found in the inner west along Enmore Road, with the CBD scene holding relatively steady after more than 15 years since the small bar explosion of the 2010s. 

Mucho Group, the team behind the acclaimed Cantina OK and Enmore’s wildly popular Bar Planet, is doubling down in both precincts with two new bars this year. We took time with group CEO Daisy Tulley to find out what’s on the agenda at each. 

Bar Bridge, CBD

Agave spirits and Margaritas have always been Mucho’s bread and butter. But the Martini has become more of a focus in the last five years, with Bar Planet and Bar Herbs leaning into distinct interpretations of the drink. Pitched as a “chic Martini bar”, Bar Bridge will complete the trifecta and bring its own twist to the Martini concept.

“If we’re thinking about the Sex and the City analogy, Bar Planet could be Miranda. Bar Herbs is either Carrie or Samantha. We think of this bar as Mr Big,” says Tulley. “A sexy, serious and confident space we haven’t really flirted with as much.”

That means table service from waistcoated staff and a slight departure from the Martini seen at Planet and Herbs. “The other two bars are more approachable, and that means a wetter Martini. We’re going for the dry Martini at Bar Bridge.”

The former Double Deuce site, for which the group took on the lease last year, is currently being “Mucho-fied” with swathes of black paint to fit the chic concept. The site’s structural elements – including those big comfy booths – will remain.

Like the group’s other CBD bars, this one will serve a monthly variation on the hero drink and happy hour specials. 

It will also open bookings in the next few weeks ahead of the launch in April. “We usually introduce bookings after the fact. With this one, it feels like the right thing to do.”

Bar Bridge is slated to open at 6 Bridge Street, Sydney, on April 2. 

Super 44, Newtown  

If Bar Bridge was to be the group’s third Martini bar, Super 44 was always bound for Margaritaville. It’ll be the fourth Mucho venue to champion agave cocktails and spirits from the group’s intensive research trips to Mexico. 

“It will be as if Centro 86 and Bar Planet had a baby,” says Tulley. “We’re going to bring the world’s best Margaritas to the inner west. That’s the mission.”

Though it’s not slated to open until mid-year, work is already underway at the former Midnight Special site, with the upstairs room to open onto a verandah with enhanced views of the downstairs space. 

Like its Martini-centric sibling a few doors up, Super 44 will be serving drinks and uber addictive popcorn until 2am thanks to Enmore Road’s Special Entertainment Precinct designation. 

“Bar Planet is nearly four years old. We think we’ve done an amazing job fitting into the community and felt like we’ve got more to say in the area. Enmore Road’s only getting better and more exciting.” 

Super 44 is slated to open at 44 Enmore Road, Newtown, by early June.