Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group has snapped up another massive Sydney pub, securing the freehold operation of ALH’s high-performing Cambridge Hotel in Fairfield for $56 million. Still celebrating last month’s milestone acquisition of Manly’s The Steyne, Iris continues its rapid portfolio expansion with a complex deal on both the freehold and lease of the western Sydney […]
This week the Australian hotel industry mourns the loss of an icon of the past half-century, with the passing of NSW and Queensland great, Paul Irvin. Paul Michael Irvin was born in Maroubra on 15 September 1927. His father died when he was just two years of age and he was raised by his mother
ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts Point strip club Dollhouse, the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) chair Philip Crawford
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Oscars Hotels has snapped up another inner west landmark, taking title to the freehold going concern of Parramatta Road icon the Empire Hotel, in Annandale. Built circa 1890 for Tooth’s & Co, the three-storey Empire, particularly its façade, was refashioned in the twentieth century in a more modernist, Art Deco styling, which it still embraces.
The dedicated and long-serving Porter family has doubled the footprint of Porters Plainland Hotel with a $7 million development to deliver a dream more than a decade in the making. The Porter family bought the big Plainland, on a sprawling seven-acre Queensland site, back in 1948. Bob and Julie Porter took over and ran it
Brett Nielson and Steve Forbes have taken their newly-formed Good Times Industries west to Armidale, picking up ‘The Newie’ as the Ingham-Myers’ exit the region. Nielson is long-time owner of the Glengarry Castle Hotel in Redfern, where he used to employ Forbes. The pair recently formed Good Times Industries (GTI), and have taken on the
Private hoteliers Michael Wiggins and Joanne Cassar have put up the big corner Oxford Hotel in Drummoyne, in a rare opportunity for Sydney’s tightly-held gaming market. Wiggins and Cassar have owned a string of pub operations, divesting their Royal Exhibition in Surry Hills in November 2015 to buy the Oxford from Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group
Melbourne’s hallowed Oxford Scholar Hotel has returned after two years in the wilderness, under a new lease by the growing Mahony Group. Built 1857, the Oxford Scholar is on land owned by RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), on the corner of Swanston and A’Beckett Streets. For 26 years it was operated by Malcolm Wulf
Adelaide pub royalty the Hurley Group have unveiled their new take on cuisine at their Hotel Royal in Torrensville, presenting Condesa Mexican under talented multi-national chef Ashley Nguyen. Jenny and Peter Hurley’s daughter recently returned to working with the group, and was tasked with addressing the Royal’s tired food offering. “I gave Samantha a project
Despite archival links to England and the United Kingdom, the pub world in the mother land varies somewhat from Australia, if not the rest of the world – as seen in naked singalongs and a Fosters-themed sarcophagus. Alastair Choat has been waging a campaign to retain operation of the Coach & Horses in Soho, which
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