Sydney will soon welcome a new pub as the all-new Watson’s comes to life in the Entertainment Quarter, in place of PJ Gallaghers. After a nearly five-year tenure, PJ Gallagher’s EQ closed for COVID last year, and with only a couple of weeks remaining on the lease when pubs reopened in June, it did not. […]
Australian Venue Co has announced historic Brunswick landmark the Sarah Sands Hotel will re-open to the public this weekend, for the first time in four years. Closed since 2017, AVC took on the dormant pub in late 2019. It has now seen an extensive renovation, circa $3 million, and is ready to resume its role
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Lewis Land Group has reopened its newly refashioned The Komo in Woody Point, to delight locals and visitors to the area. The company acquired the Mon Komo Hotel late last year and promptly closed it, in November. It has spent the past five months and $3 million renovating, including a tweak to the moniker to
Driven by the beating iron heart of Newcastle, Steel City Brewing Company has partnered with Lion to proclaim a brewery for the people of the Hunter, backed by some of the region’s biggest names. Steel City brings plans to brew beers that are easy-drinking, refreshing and “highly sessionable”. The company champions modern working-class culture,
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Patrons of PJ O’Brien’s bid farewell to Mr O’Reilly in a wake on St Patrick’s Day as the pub took out the Irish and pivots to PJs in the City. Proprietors posted a Funeral Notice for dear Mr O’Reilly, heralding a “move away from our Irish pub history” and the last time Guinness would be
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
Waverley’s exultant Robin Hood Hotel is poised to welcome yon locals as it reopens following a multi-million-dollar refresh and nod to its proud past. The Hood, as it is known locally, already had a DA and permissions prior to the national pandemic shutdown last year, and closed to begin work last July, shortly after pubs
The indomitable General Gordon Hotel has reopened after the multi-million-dollar makeover that followed its defeat by fire nearly three years’ ago. Sydenham’s large-format and beloved General has been reborn in a way that pays tribute to its theatrical and tumultuous past. Mid-2018 news broke that the inner-western icon adjacent to Sydenham Train Station had been
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
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