THE FRIEND FINDS COLOSIMO IN NEED
Glebe stalwart the Friend In Hand Hotel has been sold by Wallaby publican Bill Young to Marcello Colosimo’s Momento Hospitality. In a return to fortune, Young bought the pub in 2019 for around $10 million. His father and the Young
EASY-PREP MEALS OFFERING PUBS EASY SOLUTIONS
Food Equity Group (FEG) is supplying pubs with easy-prep meal solutions in popular styes, which don’t require a chef or special equipment. FEG’s ‘Smoky Addiction’ and ‘Sticky Addiction’ product packs contain everything required for the serve, including sauces and meat.
PIPER LANDS MEREWETHER’S BEACH
Property guru Glenn Piper has sealed the deal on Andrew Lazarus’ magnificent Beach Hotel at Merewether, in another new record for the Newcastle region. The large-format heritage-listed pub occupies a 1,850sqm site just three kilometres from the Newcastle CBD, with
PENDLE INN HOTEL THE LATEST BIG WESTERN SYDNEY SALE
Another big western Sydney pub has sold, with a private family the latest riding the gravy train on skyrocketing values through sale of their rail-side Pendle Inn Hotel. Established in the 1950s by the vendors, the pub’s sale now represents
UNIONS VOW TO BLOCK JOHN CURTIN REDEVELOPMENT
Union heartland the John Curtin Hotel has been sold to an unnamed developer, but the city is fighting its demise and unions have vowed to make hell for any proposed project. Built in the 1870s, across from the Victorian Trades Hall
LAUNDY’S NEW LOG CABIN ‘ON FIRE’
Team Laundy has welcomed a sizeable portion of western Sydney through the doors of the brand-new Log Cabin Hotel Penrith, for a look at the return of a legend. Established way back in 1826, when an enterprising ferryman built somewhere
ROYAL OAK TURNS A NEW LEAF
Cessnock’s Royal Oak Hotel is in fresh new hands again, with a Newsome-Horvath partnership finding new life in the old Oak. Built in 1922 on a prominent corner in the gateway to the Hunter Valley, the large brick hotel features
PATRONS ARE BACK, BUT SOME BEHAVING BADLY
Marking a somewhat macabre return to normality after two years in limbo, antisocial pub patrons around the country are finding fresh convictions for bad behaviour. A man allegedly stabbed another man outside a Canberra pub, but has been granted bail. 26-year-old Hayden
TAPHOUSE GROUP SELLING TWO IN PORT MACQUARIE
Taphouse Hotel Group is shaking up the portfolio, offering up The Macca and Tacking Point Tavern coastal hotels, with expectations of a joint sale price to rival the run of recent records. The heritage-listed Port Macquarie Hotel, known locally as
PUBLICAN SAYS HOWLONG, AMID RED-HOT REGIONAL COMPETITION
Growing regional publican Adam Drabarek has bought the Howlong Hotel, in the NSW border town of Howlong. Established in 1858, the single level brick Hotel occupies a prominent 2,023sqm corner site, with single bar operation, bistro, and gaming room with
