By Sacha Delfosse – manager, Luxe Bar, Perth While most pubs and hotels in Australia are not places one would expect to be able to order a Prohibition-era cocktail, or a molecular concoction ‘constructed’ rather than poured, using home-made ingredients, there is still the chance to provide guests with some easy-to-make and easy-to-consume mixed drinks. […]
Entertainment-focused venues around the country packed in hundreds of patrons on Monday morning as the 49th Superbowl pulled record crowds around the world. Ben May’s Manly Wharf Hotel put on a Superbowl party for the first time, which included a special menu, lounge seating, half-time entertainment and buckets of Budweiser. May told PubTIC the response
The Supreme Court of South Australia has discouraged the appeal of an unfavourable verdict by a patron that sued a pub for falling off a chair drunk. Justice Kevin Nicholson did not dismiss the appeal of Ms Schuller, but the ruling was another win for common sense as the Supreme Court judge held up an
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The Sydney pub market has jumped into 2015, with several quick sales including yet another Iris Group purchase – Riverwood’s Napoleons Hotel. In the Western gaming heartland, Napoleons is the latest of a string of acquisitions for the rapidly growing Iris Group, which is making the most of the current favourable capitalisation and interest rates.
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For the past few years, Windsor’s Jolly Frog has been a dormant eye-sore on the Hawkesbury landscape – its heydays of hosting the likes of AC/DC, Cold Chisel and INXS long quiet. After a couple of years it seems one local was sick of the sight of it, and is now facing trial in Penrith
Mark Leonard, veteran Australian filmmaker and avid critique of any given thing at Sydney’s Harold Park Hotel, has invested a moment’s talent into collating a list of the hippest and trendiest taste sensations dreamed up in brewing laboratories for socially enthusiastic would-be beer drinkers. Following up on our industry-first insight on the topic last Friday,
Brisbane entrepreneur and hotel legend Jason Titman, has taken on a challenge to walk the Inca Trek to raise money for the Mater Hospital. Former operator of successful Queensland venues including the Chalk Hotel, Regatta, Hotel LA, Scarborough and most recently Due East, Titman has also been on the board of the Mater Hospital since
One of Bendigo’s most historic pubs is going back to its roots to better capitalise on the trade it is missing in the thriving Victorian town. After 12 years owning the Metropolitan, aka Pugg Mahone’s Irish Pub, Andrew Lethlean says it’s time for a change from the themed, late-night venue to a more upmarket food and
Two quick purchases by one of the country’s best-performing hotel property owners has set the tone for a hot year in the investment market. After a successful IPO in 2013, Hotel Property Investments (HPI) – the freeholder spin-off of re-structured pub owner-operator Redcape – has snatched up the ALH-tenanted Magnums Airlie Beach and the Coles-tenanted
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When social media first arrived on our computers and smartphones it was purely a form of self-promotion. Facebook pages were inundated with posts about what your friend just ate for breakfast, or how terrible that movie was. But things have changed. While self-promotion is still popular on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, it
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