PUB’S HISTORY KEPT ALIVE WITH THEATRE RENOVATION
Long-time Perth favourite, the Guildford Hotel, raised the curtain at the re-opening of its Vaudeville Hall this month. A $2.8 million renovation extended the hotel’s indoors/outdoors facilities, transforming adjoining Vaudeville Hall (‘The Hall’) into a casual beer hall and dining
TRESISE CALLS TIME ON BELLS ‘ADVENTURE’
Landmark ‘precinct’ pub Bells has come to market, Sam Tresise presenting what is likely to be one of the most contested offerings of 2024 in the tightly held Victorian market. A mainstay institution of South Melbourne, since 1874 Bells Hotel
FUTURE MENUS TREND REPORT FOR 2024
Global foodservice giant Unilever has released its Future Menus trend report for 2024, outlining the trends set to shape the foodservice industry locally and globally over the coming year. This report furthers the inaugural Future Menus trends report, published in
ROCKIN’ NOVOCASTRIAN PUBS TAP TRADING HOUR EXTENSIONS
Following the 2023 bill to foster the revival of live entertainment and riding the wave of new government grants supporting live music, two more Steel city pubs have applied to extend their capacity and hours. The Cricketers Arms Hotel in
EAST VILLAGE GOES FROM GOOD TO TIPPLE
Ben McBeath and new partners have taken on Darlinghurst’s storied East Village Hotel, as Locky Paech’s outfit looks to the next move. Located on the high-profile corner of Liverpool and Palmer Street in Darlinghurst, the former Tradesman’s Arms was built
MATHIESON SELLS FLOUNDERING CAPTAIN
Bruce Mathieson has sold the intrepid Captain Cook Hotel for around half what he paid two years ago, recycling the gaming credentials as the prominent Paddington pub goes into drydock. The four-storey Federation-style Captain Cook was built in 1914, overseeing
CHEERS TO MENTAL WELLNESS AT TARANA HOTEL
The Tarana Hotel, a regional pub in New South Wales, is currently addressing mental ill-health in a unique and creative way. Throughout July and August, the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is hosting free storytelling and songwriting workshops at
COMMODE LES COMEDIE
At least one universal fact about people is that everybody must partake of the privy on a consistently regular basis, but the way venues around the world label female and male latrines is neither universal nor consistent. Sometimes clever, often
CULLENS LIST BAY HOTEL AND PACKAGE
Landmark coastal pub the Bay Hotel and surrounding businesses have been listed by the Cullen family, after 35 years owner-operation. The diverse business is set on a combined landholding of 4.4 hectares in Bonnells Bay, overlooking Lake Macquarie, with an
INSURANCE BURDEN BENEFITING FROM PROACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
The years since the pandemic have been some of the toughest on record for insurance markets, particularly in hospitality, and rising economic pressures have forced greater attention on managing the cost of insurance. GSA’s Charles Galayini says providers are responding
