Changing Times

COUGHLAN ARRIVES IN BOTANY BAY

Posted on October 12th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

FORTUNE OF WAR RE-OPENS AFTER RENO

Posted on October 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

WAUGHS UNVEIL BUENA FOR MOSMAN

Posted on September 28th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Management Group will tomorrow re-launch the Buena, Mosman cornerstone, bringing pub gastronomy to the elite foreshore ‘burb. [caption id="attachment_7394" align="alignright" width="338"] The Buena Vista Hotel, 2011[/caption] PHMG burst into prominence in May last year when it

PADDINGTON BACK INN AND BOASTING MORE HATS

Posted on September 9th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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. [caption id="attachment_7172" align="alignright" width="196"] Bruce & Anna Solomon. Photos by Fiora

SOLOTEL SET TO UNVEIL REJUVENATED PADDINGTON INN

Posted on August 31st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

HERITAGE PUB TO CLOSE AS PROPRIETORS MOVE ONE

Posted on August 29th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

SHORT’S ROYAL HOTEL BUILDING UP AND IN MILIEU

Posted on August 22nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

PUBLICAN LOSES TWO VENUES AMID HARD TIMES

Posted on July 18th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two venues operated by John Hussey have fallen, with receivers taking possession and agreements “extinguished”. The Gold Coast Bulletin reported one of the glitter strip’s biggest nightclubs – Shooters – closed suddenly, with several dozen now-out-of-work employees said to be

SOLOTEL’S NOD TO HENRY LAWSON’S ‘CASTLE’ REVEALED

Posted on July 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Bruce Solomon’s Solotel last night relaunched one of Sydney’s most historic hotels – former home of Henry Lawson, the Edinburgh Castle. In the final years of the 19th century, iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson inhabited one of the