COLLINGWOOD SWEETHEART GRACE DARLING HOTEL UP FOR GRABS
The team behind Collingwood’s beloved Grace Darling Hotel are hanging up the bar mats, listing the business into the tight Victorian market. Enjoying a prominent corner in the middle of Smith Street, central to Melbourne’s most diverse and in-demand precinct,
ROCKPOOL BRINGS MUNICH BRAUHAUS MAGIC TO BRISBANE
The indomitable Rockpool Group has expanded on its Brisbane footprint, opening Munich Brauhaus Brisbane over the weekend. The two-storey Bavarian bier hall experience is set in the renovated, heritage-listed Allgas Building on Stanley Street Plaza, in South Bank Parklands. On
PUBLICANS GEAR UP FOR VARIETY BASH
The annual Variety Club race to raise money for children is gearing up for its 2018 expedition, joined by pubs and hoteliers including Iris Group’s Sam Arnaout in a vintage Valiant. The Newcastle Hunter sub-branch of the AHA NSW has
DON HODGE PICKS UP WARNERS AT THE BAY
The growing Don Hodge Group has snapped up the large-format Warners at the Bay, bringing another hotel opportunity to its enterprising portfolio. Warners at the Bay was established in 1999 on a sprawling 10,790sqm block in the Central Coast community
OSCARS WIN TRIPLE 8 FROM GALLAGHERS
Gallagher Hotels has offloaded the gaming-focused Triple 8 Hotel in Chinatown to the ever-active Oscars Hotels. Patrick Gallagher bought the operation with a seven-year lease in 2015 from Iris Group for circa $7.25 million, representing the two businesses’ fifth asset
PERTH CORNERSTONE ALE HOUSE FOR SALE ANY WAY
The Gastevski Group is offering a unique sales opportunity around its big Cornerstone Ale House in Perth’s growing northern suburbs. The CornerStone opened in 2011 and occupies a 3,144sqm block within the Brighton Estate, proximate to Estate residents as well
PATONGA HOTEL CLOSED AND SELLING AMERICA’S CUP BAR
New proprietors of the Patonga Hotel, the Boathouse Group, have closed the pub for an overhaul and are auctioning off its famous America’s Cup bar that once graced the Sydney Hilton. Andrew and Pip Goldsmith have built the successful Boathouse
DECADE ON ILGA CLINGS TO NEWCASTLE ‘SOLUTION’
The Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority appears set to bow to the vocal minority and change very little of the influential and oft-lauded ‘Newcastle solution’ trade restrictions. Approaching a decade since inception, the Australian Hotels Association (AHA NSW) made a
GABS: GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS
Hailed as one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world, the 2018 Great Australia Beer SpecTAPular will see spirits introduced to the line-up. Hosted in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, the 2018 GABS event is presented by Dan Murphy’s,
RIPPLES MAKING WAVES ON HEADS
A US company has expanded into the liquor game by releasing a machine that prints text or images directly onto the head of a beer. Ripples launched with a machine that could print high-res images and any text onto the
