On what would have been its tenth birthday, Melbourne live music doyen the Brunswick Hotel has announced it will never reopen. In the early hours of a Thursday, 22 March 2018, a car collided with and sheared off a fire hydrant outside the popular pub, on the corner of Sydney Road and Weston Street, Brunswick. […]
Tonight sees curtains up for Jaime Wirth and partners’ reincarnation of Woolloomooloo’s famous Old Fitzroy Hotel, with selected new complementing the polished act. For the past few years, since selling his Drink n’ Dine portfolio, Wirth has joined with Michael Delany in their hospitality business International Worldwide, working toward a new direction in pubs. The
Popular Perth pub the Botanica Bar & Bistro joins the ranks of venues closing, confirming it will cease trade at the end of the month. Earlier this month news emerged Nick Duncan was closing the doors at Perth’s Broken Hill Hotel, after 16 years involved with its ownership and operation, citing a brutal economic downturn
Melbourne’s hallowed Oxford Scholar Hotel has returned after two years in the wilderness, under a new lease by the growing Mahony Group. Built 1857, the Oxford Scholar is on land owned by RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), on the corner of Swanston and A’Beckett Streets. For 26 years it was operated by Malcolm Wulf
Perth sees another majestic “old girl” gone, with Nick Duncan closing the doors of labour-of-love the Broken Hill Hotel. Duncan began ownership in the pub’s operation in 2003 as a silent partner, taking over a “run down old bikie pub” that had not seen love in years. His other business occupied the upstairs office. The
The still young Imperial Hospitality Group has unveiled its rebranded Imperial Hotel, formerly known as Shenanigans, bringing a locals’ feel to a classic Maitland landmark. In early 2017 brothers Sean and Clayton Barrett and three close mates took the plunge and bought title of their first pub, Shenanigans At The Imperial, from long-time owner-operators the
Rockpool continues its quest to bring Bavarian good-times to Australians, opening another two of the beer-based venues this week. On Wednesday, 29 May, The Bavarian Stockland Green Hills Shopping Centre in east Maitland threw open its doors, offering up the traditional celebrations with another 500 free hotdogs to first-comers. The venue holds 400 patrons, including
Two drinks industry colleagues have teamed up to bring the land of Guinness and whisky its very first no-alcohol pub. The Virgin Mary opened this month in Dublin, becoming Ireland’s first ‘dry’ public house in a city with 750 traditional pubs. Vaughan Yates and Oisin Davis work together in the drinks industry. Noticing an increasing
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The Bay Hotel Mordialloc has closed, with the landlord changing the locks and staff and creditors reportedly owed thousands. Mid-2018 publican Andre Chaaya listed the freehold of his south Melbourne pub, hoping to unlock some capital and invest further in the business itself. He had acquired the operation in 2013, before going on to buy
CLG’s Fitzroy favourite Bimbo is back, serving $4 pizzas and local art, after being seriously scorched last year. In May 2018 news emerged that the Melbourne institution known as Bimbo Deluxe suffered a serious blaze, predominantly on the first floor, caused by faulty office equipment. Previously known as the Punters Club, the pub was a
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