Innovation

HALLMARK HURLS SHOOTERS INTO THE ASYLUM

Posted on November 18th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Hallmark Group is unveiling its lavish and lunacy-inspired reinvention of famous Gold Coast nightspot Shooters, daring patrons to leave their sanity at the door and enter Asylum. Billed as a “refuge for errant psyches and wayward types” Asylum is an

BALMAIN’S CAT & FIDDLE FINDS NEW LIFE

Posted on October 25th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The Cat is back with a hat, sporting a shiny new coat, gun chef and all-new outlook on life. Balmain institution the Cat & Fiddle is a two-storey brick interwar pub on a corner of arterial Darling Street. After generations

SOLOTEL GOES CUCKOO AT THE MARLY

Posted on October 23rd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Solotel has refreshed and transformed the upper Marly with the weird and wondrous world of Cuckoo. Venturing up the stairs and down the rabbit hole patrons are greeted with what is promised to be a “new kind of venue experience”

BRUNSWICK’S FALLEN RAILWAY BACK ON TRACK

Posted on October 11th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The faded but not forgotten Railway Hotel in Brunswick is set to return under new owners, shaking off its chequered past to become an expansive community-focused venue. The multi-storey Railway was built 1889 beside the train line running north-south through

NORTH SYDNEY SPROUTS ROOFTOP OASIS GREEN MOUSTACHE

Posted on October 2nd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
North Sydney has its first rooftop venue with the opening of the elegant, multi-level Green Moustache. The space is a free-flowing area for dining, drinking and functions offering sweeping views through its glass exterior. The design uses a variety of existing and natural

IRELAND’S FIRST ALCOHOL-FREE PUB – THE VIRGIN MARY

Posted on May 31st, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Two drinks industry colleagues have teamed up to bring the land of Guinness and whisky its very first no-alcohol pub. The Virgin Mary opened this month in Dublin, becoming Ireland’s first ‘dry’ public house in a city with 750 traditional

THE BIMBO IS BACK

Posted on May 24th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
CLG’s Fitzroy favourite Bimbo is back, serving $4 pizzas and local art, after being seriously scorched last year. In May 2018 news emerged that the Melbourne institution known as Bimbo Deluxe suffered a serious blaze, predominantly on the first floor,

SLY FOX REOPENS WITH SLY NEW OUTLOOK

Posted on May 10th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

NEW BEGINNINGS FOR TAVERN OF KINGS

Posted on April 26th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Jason Marlow’s Group launches its shiny new Sports Bar at the Kings Park Tavern, being stage one of sweeping changes to further patron experience in entertainment and food & bev. The Kings Park Tavern occupies a spacious block on a

SOON-TO-OPEN DOWNTOWN LOOKS TO GROW

Posted on April 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
South Australian hotelier John Meek is pushing to create the Downtown mega-venue, aiming to offer multiple bars, function spaces, a strip club and day-night nightclub. Meek is a sheep and cattle farmer turned hotel operator, being the lessee at Adelaide