Australian Venue Co has unveiled the new adjunct to its Footscray gastropub Station Hotel, adding alfresco appeal and a family flavour. AVC bought The Station in late 2014, already known as an award-winning drawcard for Melbourne foodies. A recent renovation brings a new outdoor beer garden in what was an adjoining carpark, providing a large […]
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, with basement bar Castles on Castlereagh occupying the level below ground. Maloney succeeded in extending
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 freehold to its successful Cabramatta pub. The large-format venue – long known as the Cabramatta
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 Station, was built in the 1880s as a terrace home. Since becoming a pub, for
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 pub, presenting a variety of incarnations as a tavern, live music den and most recently
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 would become the football stadium and Sydney Cricket Ground, the Captain Cook has long entertained
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 a multi-level structure on a big 3,683sqm block at Red Hill’s ‘Fiveways’ intersection, close to
Sydney pub icon The Oaks has unveiled the first stage in the biggest upgrade in its 133-year history, welcoming the no excuses good-time Taffy’s sports bar. A landmark of Military Road through Neutral Bay, The Oaks is famously one of the first pubs newcomers to Sydney seek out, for decades allowing eager visitors to ‘cook
The historic Camden Valley Inn has reopened after a major ten-month renovation, ushering in a new era for the heritage-listed former milk bar. The Inn on the corner of the Old Hume Highway through Camden, around 70 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD, was built in 1939 by the Macarthur family as the Camden Vale
ALH has rebranded its former Wharf Tavern as the latest James Squire pub instalment, dubbed the Savvy Squire. Catering to Queensland’s growing love of craft beer, reported by IRI data as seeing 14.1 per cent value growth in FY19, Lion’s category-crafting brand has partnered with Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) in the revitalised Mooloolaba
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