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
Bill Young’s reimagined Illinois Hotel reopened today following a multi-million-dollar refit and new inner west-centric flavour. Five Dock’s Illinois was snapped up early 2020 by former Wallaby great and respected publican Bill Young for around $15 million. Armed with a vision of what he wanted the Hotel to be, Young closed it shortly before the
Raw Group has been revealed as the new operators of Brisbane’s landmark Stock Exchange Hotel, slated to reopen in March. Riversdale were the tenants at ‘The Stockie’ since 2013, after John Singleton’s Australian Pub Fund (APF) purchased it from Independent Pub Group and installed them as operators. APF went on to divest the Hotel freehold
Institutional university pub the Hawthorn Hotel will live again in 2021, courtesy of an “innovative partnership” between Australian Venue Co. and Swinburne University of Technology. The 152-year-old pub was built 1868, on a corner of Burwood Rd in the Melbourne CBD. It came to be surrounded by buildings of Swinburne University, and in 2015 the
A couple of old hands have concocted The Witch, in West Ipswich’s former Coronation Hotel, opening a new-look venue for changing times. The well-loved old pub closed abruptly in 2019 after a tenant vacated. Ray Smith and business partner Ron Oatley have owned a half-dozen pubs over the years, and re-emerged from semi-retirement to revive
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