Openings

SAND HILL RD UNVEIL PLANS FOR THE ESPY

Posted on July 11th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Sand Hill Road has announced its pending revival of the iconic Hotel Esplanade – The Espy – eyeing a “new cultural destination” for Melbourne and magnificent sunsets over Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne-based pub group Sand Hill Road (SHR) ‘secured’ the

ROCKPOOL OPEN UP AND OUT IN TOOWOOMBA

Posted on June 15th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Rockpool Group is continuing its record-setting run of brand new venues, opening its first outside a capital yesterday with The Bavarian Toowoomba in Grand Central Shopping Centre. The Toowoomba Bavarian represents Rockpool Group’s (RPG) fifth in the Sunshine State, following

STOCKADE BAR-BREWERY MARRICKVILLE NOW OPEN

Posted on June 13th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Stockade Brewery has cranked up both premises and product, opening a new Marrickville bar and tasting room with a new brewery, complementing cores with dabbles in barrels and all craft beverages. Evolving from a successful operation in south-west Sydney, Anton

ROCKPOOL’S RAPID EXPANSION CONTINUES

Posted on May 25th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Rockpool has taken another step today on its expansion into Queensland, opening Bavarian Beerhaüs at the heritage-listed Royal Snack Bar with a weekend of “carnivalesque escapades”. Bavarian Beerhaüs is the Group’s third new venue this month, following The Bavarian opening

ROCKPOOL OPENS ANOTHER NEW BAVARIAN

Posted on May 11th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Just a week after unveiling a brand new Queensland pub, the Rockpool Group will open The Bavarian Rouse Hill on Monday, giving away 500 free hotdogs. Rockpool Group (formerly Urban Purveyor) operate a collection of 60 venues under 16 different

ROCKPOOL BRINGS MUNICH BRAUHAUS MAGIC TO BRISBANE

Posted on May 7th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The indomitable Rockpool Group has expanded on its Brisbane footprint, opening Munich Brauhaus Brisbane over the weekend. The two-storey Bavarian bier hall experience is set in the renovated, heritage-listed Allgas Building on Stanley Street Plaza, in South Bank Parklands. On

FEROS ON A HIGHFIELD

Posted on April 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The Feros Group is seeing the Caringbah community embrace its reinvention of the former Bizzos club as the market sophisticated multi-level Highfield. Chris Feros has had ambitious plans for the three-storey building that for decades was the Caringbah Business &

SHORE CLUB HOTEL TO FINALLY REOPEN AS MANLY GREENHOUSE

Posted on February 2nd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
After years in the wilderness, Manly’s oceanfront Shore Club Hotel will soon reopen as a conservatory-inspired oasis, Manly Greenhouse. [caption id="attachment_12210" align="alignright" width="359"] Greg Anderson Patricia Nunes outside the former Shore Club Hotel[/caption] Former Aria chef Greg Anderson and business

DOLPHIN AND ICEBERGS TEAM LAUNCH BONDI BEACH PUBLIC BAR

Posted on December 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The team behind the acclaim of The Dolphin has opened a brand new Bondi Beach Public Bar, offering a sophisticated nod to Australian drinking culture of the 1970s and 80s. The massive Pacific development on Bondi’s Campbell Parade, stretching an

FUNLAB TO LAUNCH KINGS CROSS HOLEY MOLEY

Posted on December 18th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Funlab is set to open its eighth instalment of putt-putt pub Holey Moley, in the rapidly gentrifying precinct of Kings Cross. The Holey Moley sensation began in 2016, the first venue opening in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, followed in April this