Openings

FEROS ON A HIGHFIELD

Posted on April 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The Feros Group is seeing the Caringbah community embrace its reinvention of the former Bizzos club as the market sophisticated multi-level Highfield. Chris Feros has had ambitious plans for the three-storey building that for decades was the Caringbah Business &

SHORE CLUB HOTEL TO FINALLY REOPEN AS MANLY GREENHOUSE

Posted on February 2nd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
After years in the wilderness, Manly’s oceanfront Shore Club Hotel will soon reopen as a conservatory-inspired oasis, Manly Greenhouse. [caption id="attachment_12210" align="alignright" width="359"] Greg Anderson Patricia Nunes outside the former Shore Club Hotel[/caption] Former Aria chef Greg Anderson and business

DOLPHIN AND ICEBERGS TEAM LAUNCH BONDI BEACH PUBLIC BAR

Posted on December 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The team behind the acclaim of The Dolphin has opened a brand new Bondi Beach Public Bar, offering a sophisticated nod to Australian drinking culture of the 1970s and 80s. The massive Pacific development on Bondi’s Campbell Parade, stretching an

FUNLAB TO LAUNCH KINGS CROSS HOLEY MOLEY

Posted on December 18th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Funlab is set to open its eighth instalment of putt-putt pub Holey Moley, in the rapidly gentrifying precinct of Kings Cross. The Holey Moley sensation began in 2016, the first venue opening in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, followed in April this

ARK GROUP OPEN BIG NEW MARKET GROUNDS PUB

Posted on December 8th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
ARK Group has unveiled its huge new pub Market Grounds in Perth’s Kings Square, ready to capitalise on the future potential in the Perth City Link precinct. The big Market Grounds is located on the site of the former Perth

THIRD BRISBANE VENUE FOR SOLOTEL IS LITTLE BIG HOUSE

Posted on December 4th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Solotel has thrown open the doors to its new venue in Southbank, after an epic restoration and conversion of an historic landmark. The former Collins Place is a classic balcony-clad two-storey Queenslander built in 1889. It has been preserved amid

PRIOR LOOSES NEW PYRMONT PUB WHIRLY BIRD

Posted on October 23rd, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Former Keystone foundations Ant Prior and Simon Barbato have teamed up to launch Whirly Bird, in the former Oscars Hotel at Pyrmont. Pitched as a sultry lit and eclectic space with casual elegance, Whirly Bird specialises in “fine poultry and

DRAUGHT DROUGHT BROKEN IN VICTORIA

Posted on August 28th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The drought has broken in Victoria, as the sleepy town of Woomelang celebrates the quiet yet triumphant return of its only pub. In 2014, Graham and Lisa Shore embarked from Brisbane on a long-awaited caravan expedition around Australia scheduled for

PELATHON PRESENTS GRAND CENTRAL BEAUTY

Posted on July 10th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Pelathon has unveiled its stunning million-dollar remake of Brisbane’s Grand Central Hotel, the station pub engineered to both attract and cater to the thousands that pass it daily. Opening in 1901 as refreshment rooms to Brisbane’s Central Station, the pub