Cessnock’s Royal Oak Hotel is in fresh new hands again, with a Newsome-Horvath partnership finding new life in the old Oak. Built in 1922 on a prominent corner in the gateway to the Hunter Valley, the large brick hotel features a bar, bistro, spacious rear beer garden, off-street parking, and a separate cafe point of […]
Australian Venue Co (AVC) has invested north of another $6 million renovating Queensland suburban locals, expanded and designed with locals in mind. This week the Salisbury Hotel in south Brisbane re-opened after a $1.6 million renovation. Recognising an uptick in younger families and students moving into the area, AVC has added a new open beer
Australian Venue Co has announced it has begun a major $1.65 million renovation of the former Spirit Hotels landmark, the Cleveland Sands Hotel, on Brisbane’s coast. The Cleveland Sands has been a popular part of the suburban Cleveland community since it opened in 1930. The renovations are set to welcome “a vibrant and inviting space”
As tourism hotspots are welcoming back domestic and international travellers, the famous Cape York Hotel of Cairns has closed its doors. A pub has stood on the corner site for the past 124 years, and its colourful history has made it perhaps one of the most famous in Cairns. Originally christened the Tramway Hotel when
The many talents behind the remaking of the famous Continental Hotel of Sorrento have announced the massive makeover is to begin opening this month. Built in 1875, the Hotel Continental heritage-listed hotel was bought in 2019 from parties including hotelier Julian Gerner, by a consortium comprising the Victor Smorgon Group, the Kanat family and Trenerry
Conquering challenges including vandals, secret doors and moving staircases, Riverland Group will soon reopen the historic and surprising Railway Hotel of Brunswick. Beginning life in the 1880s, the four-level Hotel has seen chapters where it served as a hostel, as a television studio, a bookmaker’s office, and even as a part-time morgue. Beyond the mere
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Regional landmark the Westminster Hotel of Temora is entering a new era at the hands of ambitious newcomers, transforming a tired operation into a family-friendly destination pub. The proud new owners are Jamie and Sally Keith, who bought the freehold business from Steve Svetec through Peter Campbell Real Estate’s Neil Harvey, in Wagga Wagga. Jamie
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A striking example in the many thousands of UK pubs that have closed since the onset of the pandemic, after a thousand years one of the oldest pubs in Britain has sunk into administration. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks (YOFC) in St Albans, Hertfordshire, is one of several pubs that lay claim to being the oldest
Sydney’s iconic, hard-rocking Lansdowne Hotel has announced its pending retirement from live music, in favour of budget accommodation. The striking three-level pub is on City Road, close to the corner of Broadway and opposite Victoria Park, which skirts Sydney University. After years of uncertainty and closure stemming from Sydney’s crippling lockout laws, the famous live
Facing the loss of their treasured local, the people of the town of Grong Grong have raised over a million dollars to form a cooperative and buy it themselves. Grong Grong is a small town in the NSW Riverina, east of Narrandera. Its Aboriginal name regrettably translates as “very bad camping ground”. Its Royal Hotel,
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