Ninety-nine-year-old Darlinghurst icon The Strand is welcoming a new era inspired by the roaring twenties, as Public Hospitality Group transform it into a four-level dining and hotel precinct. The extensive refurbishment is taking place in two distinct phases. Open now is The Strand Bistro on the ground floor. Taking cues from turn-of-the-century Paris, it serves […]
A number of large-format hotels are capitalising on COVID-quashed dreams of travel, opening themed installations, seen in Shoal Bay Country Club’s Atmos Greek restaurant, and Garden State Hotel’s Italian temptation Tippy-Tay. Andrew Lazarus’ Shoal Bay Country Club (SBCC) is whisking visitors to a Greek experience at Port Stephens through expansion of its dining offering with
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Plans are in action to reopen Newtown’s landmark Hub Theatre after more than two decades, as a new craft beer and entertainment-focused pub called Urban House of Brews. The pending Urban House of Brews (UHB) is slated to be a collective of Australian artisan beers and theming and a distillery, entwined with on-trend menus and
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Major expansion plans herald several new venues and Australia’s first craft beer hotel as BrewDog taps the ongoing successes of its A-NZ antipodean endeavours. An ambitious two-year blueprint foretells of several new sites across Australia and New Zealand by 2023, and a Down Under edition of the Dog House – BrewDog’s hotel for human and
A ground-breaking ceremony took place yesterday to mark the site and start of construction of Laundy group’s brand-new Log Cabin Hotel. A hotel first appeared on the site in the early 1800s, when an enterprising ferryman built somewhere for travellers waiting to cross the raging Nepean River to rest and have a drink. While several
Raw Group has been revealed as the new operators of Brisbane’s landmark Stock Exchange Hotel, slated to reopen in March. Riversdale were the tenants at ‘The Stockie’ since 2013, after John Singleton’s Australian Pub Fund (APF) purchased it from Independent Pub Group and installed them as operators. APF went on to divest the Hotel freehold
Institutional university pub the Hawthorn Hotel will live again in 2021, courtesy of an “innovative partnership” between Australian Venue Co. and Swinburne University of Technology. The 152-year-old pub was built 1868, on a corner of Burwood Rd in the Melbourne CBD. It came to be surrounded by buildings of Swinburne University, and in 2015 the
Surfers Paradise is set for an enormous new hospitality space billed as sun, surf and sand mixed with sophisticated social sass. Cali Beach Club is an internationally-flavoured entertainment precinct on a rooftop in the heart of the Gold Coast, presenting a sophisticated and sassy new adult playground featuring decadent poolside cabanas, multiple premium dining outlets
Last week Brisbane jumped to the unleashing of Tilley & Wills’ former Elephant, the reworked and newly re-monikered Prince Consort landmark of Fortitude Valley. Around 600 people freed from nine months of pandemic shackles came to celebrate the official launch, including actors, performers, musicians, foodies, business leaders and lovers of hospitality. The dress code of
Merivale has finally unveiled its much-anticipated ‘Middle Level’ of Coogee Pavilion, as well as further iteration of the ever-growing ivy and Hemmes’ proposition to reinvigorate Sydney’s nightlife. Five years after purchasing the Coogee venue, late 2019 Justin Hemmes’ Merivale design team finally unveiled plans for the middle floor of the Pavilion, which had lay dormant
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