Australian Venue Co has continued its rebound strategy, taking Fitzroy institution Bimbo from Colonial Leisure. The ‘Bimbo’ of Melbourne has been serving its famous low-cost pizzas and providing late-night entertainment courtesy of its 3am licence to an eclectic mix of patrons for many years. Like all pubs in Australia, Bimbo closed in March 2020, but […]
The stately Forbes Hotel in the heart of Sydney is coming back to life and offering a new long-term lease. Set on a 149sqm block on the corner of King and York Streets in the Sydney CBD, where a pub has stood since the 1840s, the Forbes is a four-storey red brick building built in
Luke ‘Lionheart’ Ainscough has sold his regional landmark in Sydney’s burgeoning northwest to the up-and-coming Endeavour, as the region dries out from subsiding floodwaters. The Clarendon resides on a 1,959sqm lot on Hawkesbury Valley Way – the main arterial road linking Windsor and Richmond. It provides the local catchment a big public bar, bistro, gaming
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The infamous Newcastle restrictions will finally be lifted for the first time in 13 years, bringing the city back in line with the rest of the state and ending a protracted era of treating people going out at night “like criminals”. The NSW State Government has announced a trial that will see the tough patron
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Lewis Land Group is amongst those feeding a recovery in hospitality, doubling the NSW Government’s Dine & Discover vouchers at Sydney institutions The Fiddler and Camden Valley Inn. The group is offering twice the face value of the Dine & Discover vouchers between Mondays and Thursdays, giving customers $50 to redeem on meals. Rouse Hill’s
The Calligeros clan has taken ownership from the Maloufs of Paddington’s much-loved and much-owned landmark, the Bellevue Hotel. The two-storey Bellevue has stood on the corner of Hargrave Street and Windsor Lane since 1880. Industry faithful Steven Speed and partner Peter Walker’s WDS Hotels bought it from Singo’s Riversdale in 2014, soon undertaking a complex
The Feros’ JDA Hotels has secured the leasehold interest of the coveted Mountbatten Hotel in Haymarket for $7.5 million. The Mountbatten is one of the true ‘locals’ of Sydney’s major boulevard, George Street, with an office workers’ happy hour from four ‘til six each weekday. It holds a 3am liquor licence and 25 gaming machines,
Industry is pleading for a continuation to support as Brisbane is plunged back into lockdown just as JobKeeper ends, threatening closed doors for one of the year’s busiest holiday periods. From Monday afternoon more than two million residents of Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich and Redlands were only allowed to leave their homes for
A Laundy-Tindall-Short partnership has furthered their NSW north coast footprint with acquisition of the re-stapled Illawong Hotel of Evans Head. Nick Tindall and wife Justine (nee Laundy), daughter to the pub king, had been actively eyeing traditional pub offerings outside the wider Sydney area, underpinned by strong land holdings and key metrics. The Art-Deco Illawong
Hot on the heels of his partnership sale of Ryde’s Royal Hotel, Patrick Gallagher has passed the title of his home base Union Hotel in North Sydney to John Azar and the Good Beer Co. Located on a 784sqm lot on the prominent corner of the Pacific Highway and West Street, the Union is a
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