The second annual Fish Lane Festival will take place in the bustling heart of Brisbane this Saturday, 13 May, celebrating a neighbourhood reborn and Colonial Leisure Group’s induction. The ‘Fish Lane’ precinct is the brainchild of Aria Property Group, which is transforming a former industrial laneway into one of Brisbane’s finest drinking and dining areas. […]
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The team behind Sydney’s Cauliflower Hotel are again growing its legend, launching a Mai Tai competition for Australian drinks professionals and rum aficionados. Justin and Pippi Drew took over Waterloo’s Cauliflower in mid-2015, and dived straight into self-promotion with a combined Footy Finals and Oktoberfest party. The Drews also operate Big Island Operations, holding the
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Sydney Beer Week 2017 is due to take place 20-29 October, and event registration is now open for venues to be part of the celebration of the city’s beer culture. Organisers state Sydney Beer Week’s (SBW) main aim is to deliver a wold-class celebration of beer, with a range of experiences, that “showcases as much
Urban Purveyor Group is in the grips of Oktoberfest, and bringing some serious crowd-pulling bier cheer to revellers in three states. The Group (UPG) operates a collection of licensed venues, with some of the largest being their Bavarian Bier Café and Munich Brauhaus brands, based in stein-hugging German and Bavarian bier and good times. Oktoberfest
Australia’s biggest pub has announced its mega New Year’s Day event, tempting thousands of people to experience a massive music line-up at the 2017 Foam Party. Continuing the event tradition that began this year, the Comiskey Group’s Eatons Hill Hotel will host an even bigger celebration this coming 1 January for up to 7,000 people.
The Short family’s Seabreeze Beach Hotel will soon be again the centre of historic South West Rocks’ celebration of its wartime significance, with the fourth annual German Fest. During World War I German prisoners of war of wealth and social standing were ‘guests’ of an intern camp within the Trial Bay gaol, on a peninsula
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The Blackwood Hotel, just north of the Lerderderg State Forest, is conducting investigations into activity on the premises involving spirits of inhabitants past. Owners Michael Boyd and Darren Lynch took over the old pub just over a year ago, and are convinced there are ghosts at the Blackwood. “There’s definitely an energy here,” Boyd told
The baker’s dozen that make up Maryborough’s PubFest pub crawl are on track to reclaim the world record. The Queensland township of Maryborough is just south of Hervey Bay, inland of Fraser Island. It became the original holder of the Guinness Book of World Records listing for the most participants in an organised ‘pub crawl’.
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Australia’s most German of bier houses is throwing a month-long party to celebrate 500 years of the revered Bavarian “Purity” Law, with brand new and very old craft beers. The fun-loving bier barns of Europe are a stark contrast to the serious approach of the Germans to brewing beer that five centuries ago saw laws
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After years of preparation, The Fox Hotel and Aria Property are hosting the inaugural Fish Lane Festival to showcase the stars of Brisbane’s hottest new ‘laneway’ dining precinct. The Fox underwent an extensive renovation in 2014, repositioning itself from ‘party pub’ to community hub, with a greater focus on the function market and a range
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