HOTEL MITCHELL SALE THROUGH TRUSTEE

Elegant Queenslander the Hotel Mitchell has come to market via Trustee sale, offering a blank slate freehold for a bottom line price. The two-storey brick and timber Hotel was built in 1918 on a big 2,679sqm block on the first

PUBS ENLISTED FOR MEN’S HEALTH WEEK

Andrology Australia is engaging with pubs to help Australian men toward better health and wellbeing by encouraging them to talk about themselves during this year’s Men’s Health Week. It’s an established fact that many men feel as though they cannot

HEMMES REOPENS LATEST MERIVALE MECCA, THE COLLAROY

Merivale’s much-anticipated The Collaroy has swung open its new doors over the weekend, bringing some Pavilion magic to the Northern Beaches, and gratitude from Mr Hemmes. The Waugh’s Public House Management Group listed the beachside pub mid-2017, and buoyed by

ALH INVESTIGATES GAMING PRACTISES AS SHAREHOLDERS PONDER INVESTMENTS

The controversy over ALH’s gaming room practises continues, but at least one stakeholder has voted with financial results over purported ethical obstacles. Earlier this year anti-pokies campaigner Andrew Wilkie MP unveiled allegations that Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), majority owned

WEST WINDS GIN SETS SAIL INTO CROWD-FUNDING

Bolstered by the Australian ‘gin revolution’ and constant offers to invest, West Winds Gin has kick-started a crowd-funding campaign to allow fans to literally put their money where their mouth is. Based in Western Australia, West Winds began in 2010,

CLOSE SHAVE FOR LAUNDY

The Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave continues as one of the world’s great charitable initiatives, this year counting Arthur Laundy and grandchildren into the ranks of the bald. The World’s Greatest Shave began in Lismore in 1998, inspired by a

HAY POINT HOTEL FOR SALE AS BOOM LOOMS

The huge Hay Point Hotel is being offered to market, as the massive Queensland coal industry picks up steam through the Hay Point Port. The Hay Point Hotel Motel is a big Queenslander, occupying a 2.025-Ha (20,250sqm) oceanfront site in

SCANDALOUS WIN FOR BEST STEAK SANDWICH

The hotly contested competition to find the best expression of the humble Steak Sandwich throughout WA has been fought – and controversially won by a ring-in. Every year the Australian Hotels Association (WA) proudly sponsors the quest for WA’s Best

MASSIVE MERIVALE MONTH AS SYDNEY NIGHTLIFE LOOKS TO REVIVAL

Merivale has announced a monster Happy Hour throughout June across all its venues – as the City of Sydney convenes the much-awaited Nightlife Advisory Panel. For all of June, the trailblazing Merivale presents Bottoms Up, Sydney, offering 49 per cent

SOUTH MELBOURNE’S THE MONTY SELLS – AGAIN

Just weeks after the freehold sold, Bon Vivant Group has sold its lease at South Melbourne’s popular local The Montague. In February the Fermanis family announced the sale of the freehold of the Park Street pub, following an unsolicited offer