North Coast Pub Group is consolidating in northern NSW, listing its thriving large-format Moonee Beach Tavern in northern Coffs and Village Green in Grafton. Harry Barry’s North Coast Pub Group (NCPG) operates the big Hoey Moey in coastal tourist town Coffs Harbour and Moonee Beach 14 kilometres north of the CBD, the Seaview Hotel in […]
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The manager of Gosford’s Coast Bar & Restaurant is facing heavy penalties for allowing two underage girls on school work experience to serve alcohol. An investigation by Liquor & Gaming NSW, with review of CCTV footage, found two work experience girls aged 16 and 17 served alcohol to patrons, despite conditions of the work
Artisan Australian spirits continue to make a splash in licensed venues across the country and across the seas, with Adelaide Gin bringing home a handful of international awards in its very short history to date. Australian Distilling Co officially launched Adelaide Gin in March this year, during the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Adelaide Gin was created with the goal of
Fresh from its recent record-breaking acquisition of Hotel Steyne, Iris Capital has listed for sale the Hunter Valley’s Kearsley Hotel. Beyond $60-plus million buys in one of Sydney’s highly prized precincts, Iris has been steadily building a formidable presence in Newcastle, and in the Hunter Valley, seen in purchase of Hungerford Hill Estate in Polkolbin,
The brand new joint venture between Australian Venue Company and Coles has kicked off further expansion plans with purchase of Open Arms Hospitality’s Brisbane hot-spot Riverland. This marks the first acquisition for the newly-formed Queensland Venue Company (QVC), which sees AVC operating the formerly Coles-held 87 pubs, predominantly located in Queensland. Open Arms took on
Statistics show pubs continue to rapidly close all over the UK, but some forge on through economies of lack of scale, and innovation continues to thrive in the form of London’s first nudist pub. The great British pub owes much of its modern presence to age-old laws allowing private dwellings to be operated as a
Redfern diamond in the rough the Surrey ‘Club’ Hotel comes to market, representing a torrent of upside and rare opportunity on the city fringe. Located on a prominent 368sqm corner of Cleveland and Elizabeth Streets, the Surrey is a three-storey rendered brick Victorian Italianate structure, with elaborate parapet and cantilevered first floor balcony wrapped in
The original legend of Ettamogah has come to market, boasting a most unusual structure and madcap reputation, just north of the NSW-Victorian border. Ettamogah is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of good drink’. Budding cartoonist Ken Maynard used to cycle near a water hole known as Ettamogah, and coming to think it would make a
Publican Brett Strauss has teamed up with nightclub gurus Kerry Wallace and Benjamin Lepke to reinvent inner-west late-night stomping ground the Sly Fox. Located on the corner of Enmore and Edgeware Roads in Sydney’s inner west, the Fox has been long known as a well-patronised favourite of the queer community. Wallace, from Solid Circles Touring
B2B customer services and mystery shopper company Girl Friday has rebranded to better reflect the work it does helping pubs and other businesses increase their competitive edge. Girl Friday has been operating for over 13 years and has evolved to offer a range of services, largely based in ‘mystery’ shopping, customer satisfaction and compliance. Its
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