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GERNER PARTNERS WITH STELLER FOR $35m RESCUE OF THE CONTI

Posted on November 27th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Hotelier Julian Gerner has secured partnership with expanding developer Steller for the $35 million restoration and expansion of Sorrento’s legendary Conti. Gerner purchased the historic four-storey limestone hotel popularly known as The Conti from long-time owners the Di Pietro family

McGUIRES UNLEASH EXPANDED ALEXANDRA HILLS

Posted on August 4th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The Brisbane-based McGuire family has completed another big pub expansion, unveiling its new construction at the Alexandra Hills Hotel. Alexandra Hills is in Brisbane’s south-east, around 20 kilometres from the CBD. Located on a sprawling site on Route 22 to

HAMMOND & CO REMAKE OF THE CLASSIC VICTORIA HOTEL

Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Anthony Hammond is taking his gastro-pub experience and reinventing Footscray’s tired Hart’s Hotel into an affordable family-focused local boozer. Hammond is one half of the team that created Fitzroy’s acclaimed Builder’s Arms Hotel, with its culinary masterpieces Moon Under Water

TEAM BEHIND MARQUIS OF LORNE CLIMB MT ERICA

Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
After closing suddenly at the end of 2016, Prahran’s Victorian-era Mt Erica Hotel will soon be reopened with a new fit-out and old soul. Furthering and following on from their successes at Fitzroy’s Marquis of Lorne, Will Benjamin, Matt Vero

HISTORIC WELDBOROUGH HOTEL TO RIDE AGAIN

Posted on July 21st, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The tiny and historic Weldborough Hotel is on the path to a big revival courtesy of some local entrepreneurs, good use of its ancestry, and a whole lot of mountain bikes. The Hotel is the sole pub in the modest

REVISED FOUR IN HAND NOW OPEN: WAUGH

Posted on July 3rd, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Mitchell Waugh’s PHMG has settled in and overhauled the legendary Four in Hand, reopening with new integration alongside a sustained homage to history in the heritage-listed pub. Bursting onto the scene mid-2015, Public House Management Group (PHMG) let loose the

SOLOTEL’S NEW MARLBOROUGH AND PUBLICAN OF THE YEAR

Posted on June 9th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Solotel has taken the reins at Newtown’s landmark Marlborough Hotel, furthering its grip on the inner west and installing publican of the year Amanda Verratti to further Public House successes. Following announcement of the acquisition in April, Bruce Solomon’s group

RETURN OF NEW FEDERAL HOTEL

Posted on June 7th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Ipswich publican Craig Wise is reviving one of the area’s oldest pubs, bringing back an old name with a new look and feel. What was the Irish-themed Squealing Pig has returned to its former moniker of the Federal Hotel, under

RICHMOND’S RUBRIC RISING SUN TO RISE AGAIN

Posted on May 5th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
After several years in the wilderness, Richmond’s iconic Rising Sun Hotel is coming back to life – reassured of remaining part of Melbourne’s hotel landscape. Pat Reardon (Sr) bought the leasehold business in the late 90s, furthering the family’s history