Drinx Group has relaunched its landmark Belvedere Hotel, following a portfolio shuffle and big-budget renovation. Drinx and AT Hotels listed the Belvedere, along with other large footprint pubs the Grand Central and Full Moon, in February of last year. The increasingly strong Queensland market saw plenty of suitors, bringing quick sales for the Grand and […]
Summer openings are in bloom, as seen in three hot new offerings in city-fringe Sydney pubs. Surry Hills rises topographically at the city’s southern border like a custodian, often making the most of the vantage in way of cutting-edge concepts and new ideas. Seen as Sydney’s nest of small bars and hipster delights, its bohemian
Outback icon the Grove Hill Hotel will soon close its doors for good, as its octogenarian owner looks to retire and follow the sun. Built in 1934 during the peak of the goldrush in the area, the Grove Hill is two hours south of Darwin. At the time, the town counted around 3,000 people. The
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Paddy Coughlan’s pub group has relaunched the historic Botany Bay Hotel after an ownership juggle and “tweaked” refurb. In August 2015 the Hotel’s freehold and leasehold were sold off by its long-term owner through agents Manenti Quinlan, to a market increasingly desperate for Sydney metropolitan pub opportunities. The deal saw a new leaseholder close and
Following months of painstaking, history-stained renovations, Sydney’s oldest pub will re-open tomorrow to serve pub fare for another two centuries. The Rocks’ famous Fortune of War pub closed back in July for a well-earned refurbishment, and owners, Steven Speed’s WDS Hotel Group, found there was more to be done than first thought. “Our special little
Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Management Group will tomorrow re-launch the Buena, Mosman cornerstone, bringing pub gastronomy to the elite foreshore ‘burb. PHMG burst into prominence in May last year when it purchased the Buena Vista Hotel from the Halcyon Group for almost $16 million. The newly-founded Group, backed by the Waugh family, has gone on
One of Australia’s most profitable and populous pub ‘burbs continues to set the bar, with Solotel’s commemorative relaunch of Paddington Inn coinciding with two new Hats for the area. Solotel formed 30 years ago when Bruce Solomon purchased landmark corner pub the Paddington Inn, on Oxford Street. Over the next decade it largely led a
After a six-month reno, Solotel’s Paddington Inn returns next week to celebrate local architecture and its place in the tale of the modern bistro. Thirty years ago Bruce Solomon purchased the famous corner pub on Oxford Street, thus launching what is now one of Australia’s most celebrated and awarded pub groups. It gained a reputation
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One of the old ladies of Adelaide will soon call it a day, as developers re-purpose the heritage-listed pub as a commercial space. Hotel Wright St occupies the corner of Wright and Compton Streets, in the heart of the Adelaide CBD. The building was bought by Chinese developers for $5.5 million, via Wright Developments SA
With a bird’s eye view of Sydney’s inner west, Marty Short’s Royal Hotel is set to unveil its brand new heritage balcony and coherence with consumers. Occupying a landmark corner of Leichhardt’s famous Norton Street, the Royal Hotel was built in 1886 and will soon celebrate its 130th birthday with the unveiling of its new
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