The Fanatical Warren Livingstone has sold his booming Captain Cook of Botany to Kent Walker for twice the purchase price four years ago, as the south Sydney precinct’s ship comes in. Established as the Captain Cook Inn in 1880 on arterial Botany Road, the large suburban watering hole enjoys a prominent retail position with plenty […]
Sydney’s newest and wildest social darts concept bar – Flight Club – has hit a ‘bullseye’ with Christmas in July and a winning formula for its global takeover. Flight Club combines state-of-the-art dart-watching with a sophisticated setup and great social atmosphere. The patented dart tracking technology, designed by Flight Club’s own astrophysicist, tracks the
Long-time Perth favourite, the Guildford Hotel, raised the curtain at the re-opening of its Vaudeville Hall this month. A $2.8 million renovation extended the hotel’s indoors/outdoors facilities, transforming adjoining Vaudeville Hall (‘The Hall’) into a casual beer hall and dining space. The redesigned theatre was matched with a new family-accessible beer garden and kids’ play
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Landmark ‘precinct’ pub Bells has come to market, Sam Tresise presenting what is likely to be one of the most contested offerings of 2024 in the tightly held Victorian market. A mainstay institution of South Melbourne, since 1874 Bells Hotel has resided on a commanding corner of the busy junction of Moray and Coventry streets,
Global foodservice giant Unilever has released its Future Menus trend report for 2024, outlining the trends set to shape the foodservice industry locally and globally over the coming year. This report furthers the inaugural Future Menus trends report, published in 2023. It identifies the top menu trends in foodservice – pubs, clubs, restaurants, cafes and
Following the 2023 bill to foster the revival of live entertainment and riding the wave of new government grants supporting live music, two more Steel city pubs have applied to extend their capacity and hours. The Cricketers Arms Hotel in the Newcastle area, which is aiming to increase its live music offerings, lodged an application
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Ben McBeath and new partners have taken on Darlinghurst’s storied East Village Hotel, as Locky Paech’s outfit looks to the next move. Located on the high-profile corner of Liverpool and Palmer Street in Darlinghurst, the former Tradesman’s Arms was built at the conclusion of WWI, in 1918. It became known as The Bloodhouse in the
Bruce Mathieson has sold the intrepid Captain Cook Hotel for around half what he paid two years ago, recycling the gaming credentials as the prominent Paddington pub goes into drydock. The four-storey Federation-style Captain Cook was built in 1914, overseeing the intersection of Flinders Street and Moore Park Road. It has long been a stop
At least one universal fact about people is that everybody must partake of the privy on a consistently regular basis, but the way venues around the world label female and male latrines is neither universal nor consistent. Sometimes clever, often amusing, occasionally kind of sexist …
Landmark coastal pub the Bay Hotel and surrounding businesses have been listed by the Cullen family, after 35 years owner-operation. The diverse business is set on a combined landholding of 4.4 hectares in Bonnells Bay, overlooking Lake Macquarie, with an approximately 392-metre frontage to Fishery Point Road. The large format pub holds a 2am liquor
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