Sand Hill Road has announced its pending revival of the iconic Hotel Esplanade – The Espy – eyeing a “new cultural destination” for Melbourne and magnificent sunsets over Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne-based pub group Sand Hill Road (SHR) ‘secured’ the famous St Kilda pub mid-2017, taking on a stalled plan to reinvigorate the institutional music […]
A well-known Ballarat pub has closed its doors again, after a second tenant, connected with the first, has had liquidators take over. The Royal Mail was operated by Royal Mail Hotel (Ballarat) Pty Ltd under a vendor finance agreement, until default on the agreement saw the company wound up around October 2015, the landlord believed
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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