Australian craft beer royalty Matilda Bay will throw open the doors to its new pub-brewery in the Yarra Valley on Boxing Day, led by the returning founder, Phil Sexton. Sexton began Matilda Bay 35 years ago, partnering with Carlton & United Breweries to reinvigorate the country’s artisan beer market. In October came announcement he would […]
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A Toowoomba gaming attendant has walked away without a conviction or his job, after chasing his own lost $20 on Keno with over $66,000 of the hotel’s money. On Sunday 6 January 27-year-old Benjamin Naythan Shipp was working a quiet afternoon 2-6:30 shift at Toowoomba’s Portadown Hotel. The accredited gaming attendant had access to the
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After seven decades and three generations, the Leary family has sold its Shamrock Hotel in Temora to another in the convoy of Sydney-based publicans. Built on a 1,242sqm block on the main road through Temora, around 400 kilometres west of Sydney, the sizeable Shamrock offers a public bar, large all-weather beer garden, commercial kitchen, gaming
The unique and enigmatic Captain’s Flat Hotel – home of the loooong bar – is hosting a rocking three-day festival of live music in support of the Fire Service. Captain’s Flat, and its only Hotel, are to be found around three and a half hours’ drive south-south-west of Sydney, or an hour south-east of Canberra.
Redcape ends a record-setting year in pub real estate with a bang, acquiring Hurstville’s Kings Head Tavern while divesting its Royal Hotel Granville for $51 million to the same party. The ASX-listed Redcape Hotel Group (ASX: RDC) today announced a deal with hotelier and owner of AVS Security Pierre Sleiman to ‘exchange’ its Top30 corner
Sparkke – the brewery on a mission – has taken the next step in ambitious goals with purchase of Collingwood’s historic Vine Hotel, set to become a new pub-brewery showpiece. In 1869, the Caledonian Hotel was the first built on the site of what is now the Vine Hotel, on the corner of Wellington and
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After two decades manning the bar and watching Balmain transform, Gary Cowan has sold his famed William Wallace and development plans that will see it transform and literally welcome in locals. Following several years at Rozelle’s Merton Hotel, Cowan bought the ‘Willy Wally’ in the late 90s, at times operating it under management. The pub
The leasehold interest at the Lake Cathie Tavern has come to market, offering 12 years in the coastal precinct. Built 1999, the Tavern is a large-format single-storey operation providing a central service public bar with TAB, commercial kitchen and bistro, beer garden and children’s play area, bottleshop, gaming room with 11 machines in smoking solution,
The Gravanis brothers’ Oscars Hotels has won the deal to construct a new mixed-use hotel at Frasers Property’s multi-billion-dollar Shell Cove development. This week Shellharbour City Council and Frasers announced Oscars had been granted the right to the new as-yet unnamed hotel, set to overlook the marina. The design, pending DA approval in 2020, takes
Two years after selling in Maitland, the Murphy brothers are back in the Hunter, buying the freehold going concern of the Imperial Hotel at Singleton from Walker Douglas and Callen Hotels. Walker Douglas Group (WDG) has held title on a long list of regional hotels, and its Imperial at Singleton has been operated in recent
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