Brisbane institution the Normanby Hotel has hit the market, boasting a big block development opportunity and more upsides than Maroons supporters in Sydney. Michael Dempsey and Otto Wilhelm have co-owned the heritage-listed Normanby on Red Hill adjacent to Suncorp Stadium since 1999. They closed it for a period to execute a massive renovation in time […]
Formerly Sydney-based publican Andrew Lazarus has unveiled the stunning restoration of his sea-change pub, the Shoal Bay Country Club. Proprietor of well-known Sydney venues such as the Eastern and El Toro, Lazarus bought Hamilton’s Beaumont Exchange Hotel from the fading Lantern in mid-2016. Later that year he returned to buy the Country Club in Shoal
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Tasmania’s election – aka the state referendum on poker machines – has ended with a decisive win by the incumbent Liberal government, with its plans to keep them. For several months news on the pending Tasmanian state election has been dominated by Labor’s vow to eradicate the 2,375 EGMs from the 98 pubs and clubs
The acquisitive Australian Venue Company is extending its working relationship with the O’Brien family, taking on the lease at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Richmond’s bustling Church Street. Australian Venue Company (AVC) – formerly Dixon Hospitality – is on a path to build a billion-dollar portfolio with view to a float of the portfolio, backed
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After 39 years, the Liddy family is parting with the sprawling Engadine Tavern, set on 5,576sqm in an “under-pubbed” south-western Sydney precinct. The Liddys purchased the pub in 1979, Engadine at the time a growing residential area following a large-scale release of Crown land in the late 60s. Today the area enjoys a catchment of
Following an extensive eight month $6m renovation, Fraser Short and Scott Leach tonight reopen Erskineville’s fabled Imperial Hotel, birthplace of Priscilla, right on time for Mardi Gras 2018. Known around the world for its starring role in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert back in 1994, the Newtown-fringe pub became indelibly linked with the good-times vibe
A quarter century after he jump-started the gastro pub movement in Australia, chef Damien Pignolet returns to PHMG’s Woollahra Hotel and Bistro Moncur for a special event and commemorative month. On 3 March 1993 the doors first swung open to the innovative new French-style bistro in the Woollahra, quickly becoming a place to be seen
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Australian company Flat Tech has been awarded one of the hospitality industry’s highest accolades – set to accept the Kitchen Innovation Award at the upcoming Restaurant, Hotel-Motel show in Chicago. Each year the National Restaurant Association recognises performance and development in the hospitality sector, one of its top honours being the Kitchen Innovation (KI) award,
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Fairfax has published a damning expose on the alleged workings of Woolworths-backed ALH and its approach to optimising gaming revenue through patron monitoring and inducements. Yesterday’s story in the Sydney Morning Herald alludes to a company-wide system of recording and sharing detailed information on gaming regulars, including gambling habits and conversational prompts, for the purpose
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John Feros’ JDA Hotels has listed Top200 pub the Padstow Park Hotel, with new extended trading and price expectations in the high $20 millions. After executing sale-and-leaseback of the Group’s Allawah Hotel last September, and record-breaking auction of the development-ready Tennyson to Merivale in late 2016, the large-format Padstow Park will also go to auction,
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