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Gallagher Hotels reshuffles portfolio amid venue fine-tuning

Posted on February 6th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

AHA NSW Group Operator of the Year Gallagher Hotels has divested its Balmain pub, as it focuses on sharpening the edge on other assets. Speaking to PubTIC, Patrick Gallagher explained his group had acquired the former Monkey Bar venue in

More Feral Beer set to invade Australian taps

Posted on February 6th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

Fresh from the party vat after its recent Hottest beer triumph, Feral Brewing Company has released no less than three “new beers to squeal about”. For the third year in a row, Feral’s Hop Hog was recently voted the best

The Plus side of Google

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

By Grant Shepherd When it comes to the major social networking sites, most businesses only bother with the big two: Facebook and Twitter. This is a reasonable strategy as they are the most popular and therefore your posts or tweets

WHERE’S THE MONEY: Mixed Drinks

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

By Sacha Delfosse – manager, Luxe Bar, Perth While most pubs and hotels in Australia are not places one would expect to be able to order a Prohibition-era cocktail, or a molecular concoction ‘constructed’ rather than poured, using home-made ingredients,

Superbowl a boon for Americana-hungry patrons

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

[caption id="attachment_519" align="alignright" width="316"] Manly Wharf Hotel[/caption] Entertainment-focused venues around the country packed in hundreds of patrons on Monday morning as the 49th Superbowl pulled record crowds around the world. Ben May’s Manly Wharf Hotel put on a Superbowl party

Supreme Court halts litigious patron from suing pub again

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

The Supreme Court of South Australia has discouraged the appeal of an unfavourable verdict by a patron that sued a pub for falling off a chair drunk. Justice Kevin Nicholson did not dismiss the appeal of Ms Schuller, but the

2015 pub market starts hot with another Iris Group purchase

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

The Sydney pub market has jumped into 2015, with several quick sales including yet another Iris Group purchase – Riverwood’s Napoleons Hotel. In the Western gaming heartland, Napoleons is the latest of a string of acquisitions for the rapidly growing

Should we save the Jolly Frogs?

Posted on January 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

For the past few years, Windsor’s Jolly Frog has been a dormant eye-sore on the Hawkesbury landscape – its heydays of hosting the likes of AC/DC, Cold Chisel and INXS long quiet. After a couple of years it seems one

Breaking news: More craft beers for hipsters

Posted on January 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

Mark Leonard, veteran Australian filmmaker and avid critique of any given thing at Sydney’s Harold Park Hotel, has invested a moment’s talent into collating a list of the hippest and trendiest taste sensations dreamed up in brewing laboratories for socially

Hotelier charges up Inca Trek for charity

Posted on January 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney

Brisbane entrepreneur and hotel legend Jason Titman, has taken on a challenge to walk the Inca Trek to raise money for the Mater Hospital. Former operator of successful Queensland venues including the Chalk Hotel, Regatta, Hotel LA, Scarborough and most