Warren Livingstone has thrown open the doors to Laundy’s former Hotel William in East Sydney, rebranded Hyde Park House. The four-level pub on William Street was built 1919, and was once described by Arthur Laundy as having the “best rooftop in Sydney”. Following a half-year JV, Livingstone took over the tired city pub, planning a […]
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Geelong’s Irish Murphy’s has undergone a big transformation, adding a rooftop bar and fine-tuning the offering to become Murphys. The team of Shaun Aspinall, Tom Ward, Ian Nichols and Daniel O’Donghue purchased what was then the struggling ‘Gin & Co’ in early 2016, and revived the former moniker of Irish Murphy’s to capitalise on its
Rockpool Group is continuing its record-setting run of brand new venues, opening its first outside a capital yesterday with The Bavarian Toowoomba in Grand Central Shopping Centre. The Toowoomba Bavarian represents Rockpool Group’s (RPG) fifth in the Sunshine State, following its recent unveiling of the big Munich Brauhaus in Brisbane and the Bavarian Beerhaus in
Stockade Brewery has cranked up both premises and product, opening a new Marrickville bar and tasting room with a new brewery, complementing cores with dabbles in barrels and all craft beverages. Evolving from a successful operation in south-west Sydney, Anton Szpitalak and Daniel Fardon have built a new brewing premise in the inner west, with
Rockpool has taken another step today on its expansion into Queensland, opening Bavarian Beerhaüs at the heritage-listed Royal Snack Bar with a weekend of “carnivalesque escapades”. Bavarian Beerhaüs is the Group’s third new venue this month, following The Bavarian opening in Rouse Hill and the Munich Brauhaüs on Stanley Street Plaza, also in Brisbane. The
Merivale’s much-anticipated The Collaroy has swung open its new doors over the weekend, bringing some Pavilion magic to the Northern Beaches, and gratitude from Mr Hemmes. The Waugh’s Public House Management Group listed the beachside pub mid-2017, and buoyed by the successes of the newly-reopened The Newport, Merivale CEO Justin Hemmes swooped, with ideas for
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Just a week after unveiling a brand new Queensland pub, the Rockpool Group will open The Bavarian Rouse Hill on Monday, giving away 500 free hotdogs. Rockpool Group (formerly Urban Purveyor) operate a collection of 60 venues under 16 different brands, including the Munich Brauhaus, now open in Brisbane, and the well-established Bavarian (Bier Café)
The indomitable Rockpool Group has expanded on its Brisbane footprint, opening Munich Brauhaus Brisbane over the weekend. The two-storey Bavarian bier hall experience is set in the renovated, heritage-listed Allgas Building on Stanley Street Plaza, in South Bank Parklands. On Friday (4 May) a street parade kicked off festivities at 5pm, followed by the traditional
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New proprietors of the Patonga Hotel, the Boathouse Group, have closed the pub for an overhaul and are auctioning off its famous America’s Cup bar that once graced the Sydney Hilton. Andrew and Pip Goldsmith have built the successful Boathouse Group, with its collection of custom licensed venues based in a relationship with sea-living. In
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A tiny town in Western Australia is suffering the effects of the closure of its only pub, with local health workers reporting increased rates of alcohol-related violence and anti-social behaviour. The LGA of Wiluna is 1,100 kilometres’ drive north-east of Perth, with a wider population of just 720 people (Census 2016), 69 per cent of
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