Open & Closed

MOUNTAIN GOAT OPENS NEW PUB IN NEWTOWN

Posted on October 14th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney has a new brewpub courtesy of Melbourne craft beer die-hards Mountain Goat, engineering the launch of a new venue in the inner west brewer heartland of Newtown. Mountain Goat was one of Victoria’s first craft breweries. It has been

UPDATE: BLOODY MARY GROUP IN HANDS OF ADMINISTRATORS

Posted on October 14th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Adelaide hotel operators Bloody Mary Group have fallen into liquidation, coming after its directors were found to have orchestrated deals with liquor suppliers that funnelled funds out of the venues. News emerged in May of a Supreme Court decision against

AUS. VENUE CO. REVIVES MIHI TAVERN

Posted on October 12th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
AVC’s Mihi Tavern has rebounded from natural disaster, reopening after a $2.5 million renovation with a new offering targeted directly at the local young family demographic. In February the popular pub was forced to close after flash flooding, seen in

LAZARUS’ ZENITH LIFTS LID ON CHANGE AT THE EXCHANGE

Posted on September 25th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The expanding Zenith Hotels of Andrew Lazarus has reimagined the iconic Exchange Hotel in Hamilton in a five-million-dollar reconstruction, opening tomorrow. A transformation began on the Exchange back in January. When the pandemic hit it was briefly put on pause,

AVC’S HAWTHORN GOES DARK AS MELBOURNE FADES

Posted on September 23rd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The “realities” of Melbourne’s pandemic plight sees another of the city’s pub institutions fade away, as AVC hands back student favourite the Hawthorn Hotel. Built 1868, the Hotel freehold has been owned by Swinburne University since 2015 and is located

GAGE ROADS AND 4PINES BREW UP SYDNEY PUBS

Posted on September 23rd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Gage Roads and 4Pines are the latest in the growing trend of craft brewers growing beyond their brewery sheds into venues, the incoming bringing two new innovations for Sydney. Western Australian beer legends Gage Roads open their new space tomorrow

DORE OPENS RECLAIMED ENMORE HOTEL

Posted on September 16th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Following a punctuated revival renovation, Ged Dore has lifted the lid on the re-monikered Enmore Hotel in Sydney’s vibrant inner west. The former Sly Fox fell foul of liquor authorities early 2020. A pandemic-tainted sales process followed, before news was

BACK IN THE SADLIER

Posted on September 11th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The good people of Morven have a reason to smile again with a clutch of locals opening a local pub – four years after the town’s original and only pub burned to the ground. Popular watering hole the Morven Hotel

NO MORNING STAR FOR MELBOURNE

Posted on September 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The purgatory being felt in pubs in Victoria has claimed its first victims, with two popular Melbourne hotels announcing permanent closure in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade and a half the historic Mona Castle Hotel

BETOOTA BOOZER IS BACK

Posted on August 21st, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A tribute to the Australian love affair with the humble pub has “roared” back to life, luring hundreds of people to a spectacularly remote dot on the outback map to experience the Betoota phoenix. The locality of Betoota is a