Open & Closed

ST JAMES DONS NEW ROBES FOR MILESTONE BIRTHDAY

Posted on October 30th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Maloney Hotel Group’s hidden gem, the tri-level St James Hotel, is celebrating a makeover and its 15th year of extended trading with an extended party. Industry stalwart Kim Maloney bought the building at 114 Castlereagh Street in the early noughties,

REDCAPE’S CABRAMATTA REVEALED

Posted on October 28th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Redcape Hotel Group has made good on aspirational plans at its top-performing Cabramatta Hotel with a multi-million-dollar renovation and community tilt. In late 2017 RHG negotiated a deal with landlords the Bowden family for the $45 million purchase of the

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

KEG & BREW’S $10m REFURB AND ROOFTOP

Posted on October 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Good Beer mecca the Keg & Brew reopened yesterday after a big $10 million top-to-bottom refurbishment and expansion, including a new rooftop bar. The four-level building on the corner of Foveaux and Commonwealth streets, just up the road from Central

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

O’KEEFE FINDS GOLD IN NEW WESTEND

Posted on September 25th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Awarded hotelier Cam O’Keefe has relaunched Geelong’s iconic Eureka Hotel following an extensive makeover, ushering in the smart new Westend to the foodie precinct. Built 1850 and licensed since 1853, the Eureka is recognised as the city’s second-oldest continually licensed

FAT LADY SINGS FOR CAPTAIN COOK

Posted on September 23rd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Shortly following the announcement of its sale by receivers, Paddington’s Captain Cook Hotel has been put into drydock, taking its final curtain call over the weekend. Built 1914 on the corner of Flinders Street and Moore Park Road, opposite what

THE LEGEND OF NORMANBY RETURNS

Posted on September 20th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Jaz Mooney’s Pelathon Management Group has revealed its big-budget revival of Brisbane’s historic Normanby Hotel, taking the heritage-listed footy pub ‘back to its roots’. Built 1890, the Normanby embodies the history of Brisbane, in its growth and prosperity. It is