BELLEVUE IN NEW HANDS AGAIN
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
JDA TAKES MOUNTBATTEN
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
BRISBANE SWEATS AS LOCKDOWN LINGERS
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
LAUNDY TINDALL SHORT SEE WISDOM IN EVANS HEAD
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
GALLAGHER BIDS FAREWELL TO THE UNION
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
CONSUMER DATA SPEAKS TO INDUSTRY UPSET
Data from hundreds of pubs around the country is showing some key trends, most notably around the migration of patrons to suburban and regional pubs. One year on from the onset of the pandemic, some longer-term trends are taking shape
MERIVALE MOVES SOUTH ONTO QUARTERDECK
Justin Hemmes’ Merivale has acquired its first venue outside Sydney – the Quarterdeck, in “second home” Narooma. Perched on the shores of Forsters Bay, The Quarterdeck is an institution of the Eurobodalla community, as seen in its foreshore having been
OSCARS TAKE BEACHIE FROM KINGSTON
Former Rothschild MD turned hotelier David Kingston has sold his rejuvenated Beachcomber Hotel in Toukley to the Gravanis brothers’ Oscars Hotels for a reported $20 million. The local institution ‘Beachie’ enjoys a generous 1.1-Ha (11,000sqm) site between two lakes and
NSW RELAXES FURTHER
NSW is close to welcoming a fresh chorus of easing coronavirus restrictions, coming into effect next week. The next round of changes brings some relief for stifled hotels with singing and dancing allowed again, ushering in the return of nightclubs,
CHEERS TO NATIONAL LOCAL DAY
The inaugural ‘National Local Day’ took place this week, with hundreds of pubs around the country benefitting from a push to get patrons back into ‘the local’. Earlier this month Lion declared Tuesday, 23 March 2021 to be the inaugural