Innovation

MASSIVE CALI BEACH CLUB REVEALED

Posted on December 2nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

TILLEY & WILLS CAVORT AT PRINCE CONSORT

Posted on November 30th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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,

IVY GROWS AND COOGEE IN THE MIDDLE

Posted on January 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

MATILDA BAY LAUNCHES HEALESVILLE PUB AS SEXTON RETURNS

Posted on December 20th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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 &

MERIVALE’S MUCH-AWAITED COOGEE MIDDLE AND SUMMER PARTY

Posted on December 6th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

LAUNDY LAUNCHES THE LOCKER ROOM

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

BREWDOG BITES INTO BRISBANE

Posted on November 25th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

HALLMARK HURLS SHOOTERS INTO THE ASYLUM

Posted on November 18th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

BALMAIN’S CAT & FIDDLE FINDS NEW LIFE

Posted on October 25th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

SOLOTEL GOES CUCKOO AT THE MARLY

Posted on October 23rd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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”