Lewis Jaffrey

Group Bars Manager, Archie Rose Distilling Co.

Sydney

Lewis joins Archie Rose following a year in New York as co-owner, bar manager and operations director for Manhattan restaurant and bar, Gran Tivoli and Peppi’s Cellar, a role he was recruited for based on his global success across the Australia and UK including Big Poppa’s, The Baxter Inn and Grandma’s in Sydney and Home House and Le Monde Hotel in the UK. As owner, general manager and director of Big Poppa’s, Lewis won a slew of awards including Best Restaurant Bar in the Time Out 2017 Awards, the Best Bartenders Bar in the 2017 Bartender Magazine Awards and the People’s Choice in the Concrete Playground 2017 Awards. While he was at the helm at The Baxter Inn, it made the top ten in the World’s Best 50 Bars and highest entry for new bar at number 6 in the world. He’s also won other high profile coveted awards including ALIA Bar Manager of the Year in 2014 and has been consistently named as one of the top 100 most influential bartenders in Australia by Australian Bartender Magazine since 2013.