CONNELLS TAKE ON PUB WITH NO BEER
By Emma Castle Lisa and Glenn Connell from Western Australia have crossed the Nullarbor to buy the iconic Pub with No Beer in Ingham, Queensland. The heritage-listed Lees Hotel was made famous by Slim Dusty’s country music homage, The Pub
QUARTER ACRE HOTEL BRINGS AUSSIE DREAM TO APPLECROSS
Quarter Acre Hotel has opened in Applecross, bringing an all-inclusive ‘backyard-style’ space to the southern Perth suburb. The Hotel is the brainchild of industry stalwarts Miles Hull and Clint Nolan, who last teamed up in 2004 when Nolan, a former
HISTORIC WHITMORE HOTEL SEES NEW SPARKKE AND BREWERY
New brewpub Sparkke at the Whitmore has opened in the historic Adelaide hotel, offering a new approach and nod to its past by a female-founded operation. The repositioned hotel is the first venue for social enterprise Sparkke Change Beverage Co
OLD FITZROY IN NEW HANDS
Jaime Wirth and associates have taken on a third operation – picking up the lease on the Old Fitzroy in the active waterside precinct of Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy is a century-old corner local in the narrow backstreets of Woolloomooloo.
BROOME BRINGS BEST OF WEST TO DY
Western Sydney pub stalwart Michael Broome is bringing some of the best of the west to the northern beaches, taking on Dee Why’s beachside Deck Bar. Broome’s Western Pub Holdings (WPH) operates several venues in Sydney’s greater west, including the
EMERALD IRISH UP FOR GRABS
The authentically Emerald-Isle Irish Village Hotel in Queensland’s rich Bowen Basin has come to market, offering owner-operator upside in a strong primary industry precinct. Emerald is the inland hub servicing the Queensland Central Highlands region, just south of the Tropic
FRISCO GOES BIG BACK TO MARKET
The handsome Frisco Hotel has returned to market for a bells and whistles campaign hoping to capitalise on confidence in the harbourside precinct of Woolloomooloo. Built 1856 on 304sqm in one of Sydney’s oldest precincts, the Frisco is a three-storey
HISTORIC PUBS THREATENED BY NEW NEIGHBOURS
A debate around noise restrictions for several well-known Sydney pubs is highlighting the comedy of errors smothering the industry and night-time economy. This week the Daily Telegraph ran an attention-grabbing expose on the plight of long-established hotels coming under fire
CORKMAN COWBOYS COP THE LOT
The cowboys of Carlton have copped a whopping fine for the illegal demolition of the beloved Corkman Irish Pub, bringing the total to almost $2 million, and they may yet still need to rebuild it. Developers Raman Shaqiri and Stefce
HAHN ULTRA CRISP CONTINUES INNOVATION IN A TOUGH MARKET
Lion is again moving with the times with its release of the gluten-free Hahn Ultra Crisp, tapping another market with another Hahn variant. Launched this week, Ultra Crisp is a carefully crafted full-strength (4.2 per cent ABV) beer with lower