Despite Australia’s archival links to the UK, pubs in Britain vary somewhat from here, if not the rest of the world – as seen in girl-on-girl action and cranky patriotic seniors. 36-year-old Sarah Lee has been reprimanded for assaulting 22-year-old makeup artist Raegan Heggie in Harry’s Bar in Ayr. Heggie was traversing through the crowded […]
Famed comedy house and inner west local the Harold Park Hotel has come to market, boasting unbridled opportunity and a generous sale proposition. Built in the late naughties opposite what was the Harold Park Raceway, in Sydney’s Forest Lodge, four kilometres west of the CBD, the Hotel is a modern two-storey brick structure with a
The Somerville brothers are taking big east coast steps with their Summer House venues, expanding out of Melbourne and now announcing two new acquisitions, in Cairns and Brisbane. A short walk from the Brisbane CBD is the Flamin’ Galah – the rebranded Beetle Bar adjoining a 30-room, 150-bed backpacker hostel. The two lots are the
The NSW Government’s Liquor Accords Grants program has announced the accords to receive funds to help them continue to make licensed venues and local communities safer. In February this year the Office of Responsible Gambling offered up $100k in funding to local liquor accords, through the new Liquor Accords Grants program, to assist initiatives intended
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Speculation is rife Woolworths and the Mathieson family are poised to announce sell-off of the $3.6 billion ALH pubs portfolio. Senior management of Woolworths Group and Bruce Mathieson Jr are believed to be back at the negotiating table, discussing plans to de-couple the ‘Fresh Food People’ from the hotels business, motivated by the unfavourable public
Online digital service White Pages Connect reports the majority of pubs have no or incorrect key details online about their business. White Pages Connect (WPC) – a subsidiary of Sensis – allows businesses to publish and update details across a large number of information sites at once. This includes all the most popular search engines
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Popular Perth pub the Botanica Bar & Bistro joins the ranks of venues closing, confirming it will cease trade at the end of the month. Earlier this month news emerged Nick Duncan was closing the doors at Perth’s Broken Hill Hotel, after 16 years involved with its ownership and operation, citing a brutal economic downturn
For the first time in 20 years, the handsome Harbour View Hotel in Sydney tourist mecca The Rocks has come to market. The HVH is one of the few freehold hotels in The Rocks, with most titles held by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. It was rebuilt in its current form in 1924 for the
Pioneering publican Steve Burns has been honoured by Southern Queensland Country Tourism with title of Best Outback Pub for his transformation of the remote Nindigully. Found 500 kilometres west and a little south of Brisbane, the Nindigully Pub, built 1864, was long little more than a tin roof on the Carnarvon Highway, seating just 20
Peter Sheridan has compiled for the first time, a photographic and historic reflection on the Art Deco influence and architecture embedded in historic Australian pubs. Extract from Sydney Art Deco by Peter Sheridan. It is extraordinary how many pubs there are in Sydney, and so many with Art Deco styling. Between 1898 and 1940, Tooth
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