VICTORIOUS VICTORIANS CROWNED FOR ‘22
The crème of Victorian hospitality gathered this week to recognise the “Most Outstanding” in the hotel industry, at the 2022 AHA Victoria Awards for Excellence. A crowd of 1,250 recipients, guests and VIPs packed out the Crown Palladium on Monday
FUNDS MANAGER BRYAM JOHNSTON RACES INTO TARANA HOTEL
Corporate high flyer Bryam Johnston and his wife Deborah are the latest high net worth-ers to take a stake in the on-flavour pub market, buying Lithgow’s popular Tarana Hotel. Known by locals as ‘The Na’ the Tarana was built in
IGLOOS RETURN TO AVC WINTER GARDENS
Australian Venue Co is bringing back its successful Winter Igloos at select locations on the east coast, offering couples and small groups an attractive escape from the cold. The ‘Winter Igloo Gardens’ at AVC pubs are a series of translucent
OSCARS DIVE INTO WESTWATERS RECORD DEAL
AFL legends the Hawthorn Football Club have executed sale of their massive WestWaters Hotel & Entertainment Complex to Oscars Hotels, in a new record deal for the state. The WestWaters Hotel & Entertainment Complex was built around Lake Caroline, occupying
THE CAPTAIN SAILS INTO SYDNEY MARKET
The famous Captain Cook Hotel of Paddington is for sale as a freehold going concern accommodation pub, at one of Sydney’s busiest intersections, within walking distance of the CBD. Commanding a 544sqm corner of Flinders Street and Moore Park Road,
MANTLE GROUP FALLS FOUL OF FAIR WORK
Godfrey Mantle’s pub empire has been ordered to repay former staff and stripped of a 23-year-old workplace agreement by the Fair Work Ombudsman. The FWO has been carrying on an investigation into the six Queensland outlets of the Pig ’N’
RED STEER WAGGA JOINS FEROS PORTFOLIO
Acclaimed Sydney operator the Feros Group is the latest to stake a claim in regional centres and into Wagga Wagga, snapping up the Red Steer Hotel and Motel. The relaxed country Hotel offers multiple bars, gaming room with nine machines,
ROYAL ALBERT MEETS MOMENTO’S MOVE
Marcello Colosimo’s Momento Hospitality has continued its march into inner-city prospects with purchase of the famed Royal Albert Hotel of Surry Hills. On the southern edge of the Sydney CBD, the Surry Hills boozer is well known as one of
IRIS’ INAUGURAL QUEENSLAND PUB AND ‘MEGA’ DEVELOPMENT
Iris Group is moving up again, heading north of the home base border into its first Queensland pub, beside its massive mixed-use development set to be the biggest on the Gold Coast in over a decade. Sam Arnaout’s Group has
ORANGE GOLD PARKVIEW HOTEL FOR SALE
For the first time in more than two decades, the privately-owned Parkview Hotel in Orange is for sale. The handsome two-storey pub is the highlight of a prominent corner of main drag Summer Street, in the heart of Orange. Set
