UK’S BIGGEST PUB GROUP SHUNS SOCIAL MEDIA
By Kylie Kennedy Love it or hate it, Facebook seems to be hanging around (unlike My Space). What started out as a social networking tool amongst students at Harvard University has expanded into one of the biggest websites worldwide, with
BOOGIE MOUNTAIN TO BRING NEW HIGHS FOR KINGS CROSS
Inspired by hedonistic hippies and the changing face of Kings Cross, Boogie Mountain will open Friday above the Potts Point Hotel for all your listening and dancing pleasure. Leading the metamorphosis from bawdy gin-joints to gentrified brasseries in the former
NEW ERA FOR OLD BALLARAT PUB
After languishing for three years, a Ballarat pub has now reopened under the artful curation of Yuge and David Bromley. The imposing Victorian brick building on the corner of Mair and Doveton Streets was originally known as the Royal Highlander,
STATELY BRITANNIA COMES TO MARKET
Long-serving publicans David Kolevas and Carolyn Trudgeon have put their beloved Britannia up for sale as they ease from pub life into retirement. The couple bought the handsome Britannia more than a decade ago, in the Maryborough suburb of Carisbrook,
BALMAIN TOWN HALL FLIPPED – AND NO LONGER A PUB
Less than a year after selling as a freehold going concern, the former Town Hall Hotel in Balmain has come to market as a mixed-use passive freehold. Developer John Adgemis and associates bought both the Town Hall and the Swanson
PUBLIC HOUSE SELLING FOUR IN HAND AS PRIVATE RESIDENCE
Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Group has listed the famous Four in Hand for alternative uses, looking to transfer the pub licence and gaming and capitalise on the building’s potential. Public House Group (PHG) purchased the formerly two-hatted gastro pub from
TERMINUS HOTEL CHANGES DIRECTION WITH FASSNIDGE
The time-warp Terminus Hotel is making up for lost time, engaging celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge to revamp its menu after just six weeks of operation. The Hotel was established in 1841, a Federation-style two-storey structure built in the early 1900s,
MERIVALE CUTS PAPI CHULO FOR QUEEN CHOW
After four years, Hemmes is shutting Merivale’s BBQ meats venue Papi Chulo in Manly Wharf, to open an instalment of its successful Cantonese concept, Queen Chow. Papi Chulo opened in 2014, offering a mix of South American barbecue and Latino
HOSPITAL CAN WAIT: STABBED MAN RETURNS TO PUB
A Cabulture man has demonstrated the importance of beer, returning to a Queensland pub after a fight with a knife sticking out of his back. Earlier this month, two men were kicked out of a pub in Beerwah, around an
PARTRIDGE CALLS TIME ON GOLDEN SANDS
The Golden Sands Hotel at magnificent Nambucca Heads comes to market as a generation moves on and the freehold owners seek new horizons. Long-time publican John Partridge has owned a string of pubs, and the Golden Sands for 30 years