A group of hospitality veterans is reviving and reinventing both the Newmarket Hotel and the landlord rule book, embracing insightful investment. Leisure Investment North Queenland (LINQ) Hotel Management is fronted by Richard Mraz, who arranged purchase of the freehold property from incumbent Toula Cassimatis in a fire-sale situation in September. After several offers to buy […]
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The team behind the successful Barber Shop venues are breaking into the pub game with an English tavern-style tribute to the eponymous Duke of Clarence. Acclaimed bar maestro Mikey Enright and career drinks professional Julian Train form Barrelhouse Group, which four years ago opened the first Barber Shop in York St, and later a second
The push to drink and drive continues, making its way across the country as Fun Lab looks to open Holey Moley Perth next month. After successfully opening holes in Brisbane, Fun Lab took its unique “mashup of mini-golf meets cocktail bar meets music meets art” down the coast, launching in Melbourne, then Sydney and Newcastle
The American-style good times that is Holey Moley is set to launch tomorrow in Sydney, bringing food & bev and two 18-hole mini golf courses to Enmore’s famous Sandringham Hotel. Holey Moley champions a mix of pop culture and team sports, amid music and atmosphere. The first venue opened last year in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley,
ALH will soon launch a new pub collaboration with Lion, rebranding Daveys Hotel in Frankston as ‘The Cheeky Squire’. Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) is Australia’s biggest publican, and operates over 300 pubs around the country, in every State and Territory except the ACT. In the outer-Melbourne suburb of Frankston, ALH operates both the Daveys
A new pub group has re-launched Kings Cross’ famous Sugarmill – repositioning it to suit its increasingly gentrified locale as the Potts Point Hotel. Sydney’s original late-night entertainment zone has been decimated by the crowd-killing effects of the controversial ‘lockout’ laws. Venues that used to trade until dawn or even 24/7 are closing far earlier,
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Solotel has been revealed as the new pub operator for the magnificent Collins Place heritage building that is the cornerstone of the $600 million Southpoint development. Built in 1889, the classic two-storey Queenslander on Grey St was a residential home until 1984, when it was resumed by the Authority for Brisbane’s Expo ’88, during which
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The Taphouse Group has unveiled its multi-million-dollar refurbishment plans in Port Macquarie, set to invigorate the region as a hub of tourism and hospitality. In mid-2015, Taphouse bought the Port Macquarie Hotel, Town Green Inn and Tacking Point Tavern from Redcape. The transaction was part of a consolidation for Redcape to its capital city strongholds,
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The Colosimo family’s Momento Venues has gained approval for a brand new upmarket hotel in the booming Macquarie Park business district. Macquarie Park is in the heart of western Sydney, and in the past decade or so has become home base for many international companies, including Canon, Microsoft and Aristocrat. Momento Venues (formerly Premier) was
The trend-setting beer doyen of Sydney’s Northern Beaches has opened another venue, set to take consumers of fine ales on a new journey of learning and aged goodness. Manly’s 4 Pines has been pushing the envelope of beer production for nearly a decade, and beyond its success in pubs throughout Australia now boasts four premises
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