I've been bartending for over four decades, from starting out behind bars in London to creating, owning and operating hospitality venues in Perth.
I'm a bartender first.
Over the years I've designed, built, opened and operated venues including 399 — Perth's first small bar, Five Bar, Tiki as FK and Lot Twenty.
I've also spent many years training bartenders, hospitality staff and students.
I started Gary Beadle's International Bartending School because people kept asking me the same question: “How do I get the experience to get my first job behind a bar?”
You can't learn bartending properly just by reading about it or watching somebody else do it.
You need to get behind a bar, pick up the equipment and start making drinks.
That's what Bartender Basics is for.
Winner Bar Team of the Year 2020 | Australian Hotels Association
Winner Best Small Bar 2015 | Australian Hotels Association
Lot 20 is a stylish Cocktail bar in the Perth Cultural Centre, known for quality service and delicious drinks.
Winner Cocktail Bar of the Year 2021 | Australian Hotels Association
Winner Cocktail Bar of the Year 2020 | Australian Hotels Association
Winner Cocktail Bar of the Year 2019 | Australian Hotels Association
Winner Best Small Bar 2018 | Australian Hotels Association
Winner Cocktail Bar of the Year 2017 | Australian Hotels Association
Tiki as FK is Perth’s favourite cocktail bar to party at.
Finalist for Best Small Bar of the Year Australia 2010 | Bartender Magazine Awards
Perth’s first small bar!
Winner Best Small Bar Critics Award 2014 | Small Bar Association
Winner Best Small Bar 2011 | Australian Hotels Association
Five bar was a boutique beer and wine venue in Mt Lawley which I operated successfully for nine years.
