Australian craft beer royalty Matilda Bay will throw open the doors to its new pub-brewery in the Yarra Valley on Boxing Day, led by the returning founder, Phil Sexton. Sexton began Matilda Bay 35 years ago, partnering with Carlton & United Breweries to reinvigorate the country’s artisan beer market. In October came announcement he would […]
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Five years after acquiring the Coogee Pavilion, Merivale is unveiling the much-anticipated middle level, boasting three distinct and well-considered spaces deserving of the location. Taking the keys to the former Coogee Palace in 2014, Justin Hemmes’ hospitality juggernaut swiftly reworked and opened the vivacious street level, providing a dynamic variety of food and beverage options
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Pub industry stalwart Arthur Laundy recently unveiled his second greenfield build this year, providing Sydney Olympic Park with a new purpose-built hotel within a stone’s throw of ANZ Stadium. For more than half a century Laundy bought and sold dozens of pubs, but had never built a new one himself – until 2018, when work
Scottish craft brewing juggernaut BrewDog has set paw in Australia, last week opening its first venue Down Under, adjoining its shiny new state-of-the-art brewery. Established in 2007 by James Watt and Martin Dickie, the independent brewery is striving to make other people as passionate about great craft beer as they are, and become the #1
Hallmark Group is unveiling its lavish and lunacy-inspired reinvention of famous Gold Coast nightspot Shooters, daring patrons to leave their sanity at the door and enter Asylum. Billed as a “refuge for errant psyches and wayward types” Asylum is an addled reinvention of the landmark venue on Orchid Avenue, melding an electric clinical decor and
The Cat is back with a hat, sporting a shiny new coat, gun chef and all-new outlook on life. Balmain institution the Cat & Fiddle is a two-storey brick interwar pub on a corner of arterial Darling Street. After generations of local patronage, the very tired structure and business succumb to the changing gentrified face
Solotel has refreshed and transformed the upper Marly with the weird and wondrous world of Cuckoo. Venturing up the stairs and down the rabbit hole patrons are greeted with what is promised to be a “new kind of venue experience” that could be described as kitsch with a Germanic nod. Opa’s lounge room bar embraces
The faded but not forgotten Railway Hotel in Brunswick is set to return under new owners, shaking off its chequered past to become an expansive community-focused venue. The multi-storey Railway was built 1889 beside the train line running north-south through the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. In early 2016 the Hotel was raided by Victoria
North Sydney has its first rooftop venue with the opening of the elegant, multi-level Green Moustache. The space is a free-flowing area for dining, drinking and functions offering sweeping views through its glass exterior. The design uses a variety of existing and natural materials alongside assorted plant life, real and faux, for a striking greenhouse-like structure. Outside spaces
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Two drinks industry colleagues have teamed up to bring the land of Guinness and whisky its very first no-alcohol pub. The Virgin Mary opened this month in Dublin, becoming Ireland’s first ‘dry’ public house in a city with 750 traditional pubs. Vaughan Yates and Oisin Davis work together in the drinks industry. Noticing an increasing
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