Everyman’s publican, Bill Smith, is again riding the publicity wave with an announcement that Abbott’s Hotel Waterloo has put hipsters on notice, banning man-buns and handlebar moustaches. Lurking just south of the CBD and increasingly gentrified Redfern, Waterloo is still largely the kind of working class population that was the bread and butter of every […]
A spate of serious violent incidents in pubs in eastern capitals has brought hospitalisations and partial amputations. On Friday night, emergency services were called to an Irish pub on Goulburn Street, on reports of two men fighting. A 24-year-old man was found unconscious at the scene, outside Scruffy Murphy’s, which is believed to soon be
Police and emergency services were called to a fire at the Petersham Inn around 1:20am overnight after receiving reports of smoke coming from the building. The pub on Parramatta Road was closed at the time, but Fire & Rescue NSW officers attended and extinguished a small fire inside. Around 40 nearby residents were evacuated from
The controversy over ALH’s gaming room practises continues, but at least one stakeholder has voted with financial results over purported ethical obstacles. Earlier this year anti-pokies campaigner Andrew Wilkie MP unveiled allegations that Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), majority owned by the Fresh Food People, Woolworths, was systematically targeting big players of its EGMs in
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Merivale has announced a monster Happy Hour throughout June across all its venues – as the City of Sydney convenes the much-awaited Nightlife Advisory Panel. For all of June, the trailblazing Merivale presents Bottoms Up, Sydney, offering 49 per cent off all drinks from 5pm – 7pm, at 37 venues (list below). The initiative is
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By Kylie Kennedy Love it or hate it, Facebook seems to be hanging around (unlike My Space). What started out as a social networking tool amongst students at Harvard University has expanded into one of the biggest websites worldwide, with its revenue last year topping the US40 billion mark. In 2012 Instagram was bought by
A Cabulture man has demonstrated the importance of beer, returning to a Queensland pub after a fight with a knife sticking out of his back. Earlier this month, two men were kicked out of a pub in Beerwah, around an hour north of Brisbane. The two men, one a local the other from nearby Cabulture,
Research at venues has confirmed positive results to encouraging more patrons to drink water, including happier staff and no impact on sales. In early 2017, VicHealth partnered with some Victorian licensees for a trial measuring how much free drinking water patrons consumers, and how to increase that amount. In Victoria, like most jurisdictions, licensed venues
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A Californian carpenter has become the unofficial spokesperson for Kirkland Light, producing his own lovingly intoxicated endorsements for the value-priced American beer. Attempting to prove a mainstream US lager can be better and more than sex on the beach (f*ing close to water), Randy Colpek is putting himself out there as the world’s biggest fan of
Live music icon the Brunswick Hotel has closed indefinitely, after a freak accident saw a fire hydrant flood the building from above. In the early hours of Thursday morning (22 March), a car struck a fire hydrant outside the popular pub, on the corner of Sydney Road and Weston Street, in Brunswick. The broken hydrant
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