Red Rock Leisure has reinvented the former King St Brewhouse as All Hands Brewing House – a new and approachable brew-pub experience on Darling Harbour. Drawing inspiration from its foundations on the King Street docks, while celebrating “contemporary brewing and modern dining”, All Hands makes the most of its infrastructure while capitalising on the experiential […]
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The pub entertainment institution known as Tranny Bingo is moving with the times – not to new venues, but to the beat of a changing social landscape. Daniel Floyd, aka Penny Tration, has been running his drag queen-hosted bingo night in pubs and clubs for more than a decade. While there are now many imitators,
‘Tis the season, and this week the AHA Victoria Awards for Excellence named this year’s best and brightest at a gala dinner at The Palladium at Crown. 1200 professionals and guests gathered to hear the champions of the 40 Awards, recognising excellence in hospitality since the 1980s. (FULL LIST BELOW) An important new category is
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One of Brisbane’s oldest and most iconic pubs has sold for the first time in 95 years to Colin Macleod’s expanding Oz Pub Group. The Boundary Hotel has stood on the corner of Boundary Rd and Jane St in Brisbane’s West End since 1864 on an ample 1,924sqm block. The lare-format two-storey brick pub offers
Liquor & Gaming’s latest NSW violent venues list has been released, the highly positive results again widening the comparison between it and reality. The twice-annual list details venues that have accumulated 12 or more violent incidents in the prior 12 months, heralding conditions including no glass and drink restrictions from midnight, cessation of service 30
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In an era where a venue’s branding and public persona are more important than ever before, the team of Scott Leach and Fraser Short are owning one of Sydney’s most trendy precincts. On the back of unveiling its renovated dining space Howard’s Cantina, Scott Leach’s Rose of Australia, in Erskineville, engaged social media and marketing
The march of Merivale continues with another prominent acquisition, the group picking up Halcyon’s Hotel Centennial on Oxford Street, Woollahra. The Centennial is a landmark two-storey pub built in 1888 on a 780sqm block, opposite Centennial Park, making it proximate to race-goers from Randwick, and visitors to Sydney Cricket Ground and Football Stadium. It was
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Around 1200 of the industry’s elite gathered last night at The Star to celebrate the Australian Hotels Association NSW’s night of Excellence. Germane to the ongoing strength of the hotel sector, the 2017 Awards for Excellence featured more than 600 nominees across a record 50 categories. (FULL LIST BELOW) A number of venues and groups
Morry Schwartz has divested two big properties in Melbourne’s East End, collecting $92 million for the Adina Hotel, and the city’s oldest pub, the Duke of Wellington, operated by Dixon Group. Publisher and property developer Morris ‘Morry’ Schwartz put the landmark properties to market in October, offering 2 Russell St, site of the recently upgraded
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After nine years and industry pressure, the liquor watchdog will be conducting a review into the special conditions on 15 venues known as the ‘Newcastle solution’. The NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) has announced the review and submission process, to be conducted by barrister Jonathan Horton QC. The process will look at the
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