Cessnock’s Royal Oak Hotel is in fresh new hands again, with a Newsome-Horvath partnership finding new life in the old Oak. Built in 1922 on a prominent corner in the gateway to the Hunter Valley, the large brick hotel features a bar, bistro, spacious rear beer garden, off-street parking, and a separate cafe point of […]
Ned Kelly’s burgeoning pub group has taken the deeds to the Belmore Hotel in Scone, in a return to where it all began for the industry veteran. Built 1866 in the upper Hunter Valley as the Railway Hotel, the pub was renamed the Belmore in 1871, after a visit by the Earl of Belmore. Some […]
A number of large-format hotels are capitalising on COVID-quashed dreams of travel, opening themed installations, seen in Shoal Bay Country Club’s Atmos Greek restaurant, and Garden State Hotel’s Italian temptation Tippy-Tay. Andrew Lazarus’ Shoal Bay Country Club (SBCC) is whisking visitors to a Greek experience at Port Stephens through expansion of its dining offering with […]
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The licensee and employees of the self-proclaimed “freedom” Caledonian Hotel have been repeatedly fined and the pub now closed for breaching public health orders. In a post on social media more than a week ago, the Singleton pub vowed to never give up fighting “the tyrants and evil that threaten our very own freedoms and […]
The Brownlee family have put to market their monarchical Belmore Hotel, in the NSW equine capital. Built 1866, the two-storey Belmore of Scone was originally named the Railway Hotel, before being renamed the Belmore in 1871, following a visit by the Earl of Belmore. Occupying a prominent 1,555sqm lot on Kelly Street, it stands adjacent […]
Continuing the shake-up in Hunter Valley hospitality, the Railway Hotel in Cessnock has been sold to a local, diversifying operator. The two-storey Railway Hotel features a public bar, commercial kitchen and bistro, popular children’s playground, ten accommodation rooms plus a licensee’s apartment upstairs, as well as a small bottleshop, barbershop and other facilities on the […]
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A new generation of hotel royalty is stepping up its footprint in pubs, with rich-listers the Roche family consolidating their pivot with purchase of Armidale’s Royal Hotel. The Royal is the latest acquisition by the Roche Group, headed by Bill and Imelda Roche, who made billions in the 80s through their company Nutrimetics Pharmaceuticals. Since […]
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More than six years after purchasing the iconic The Bourbon in Kings Cross, Iris Group has secured approval on its $65 million redevelopment of the landmark site. Ten months after submitting the latest proposal, Iris found unanimous approval through the Central Sydney Planning Committee last night, with the government architect and Lord Mayor highly complementary, […]
The ultra-waterfront Harrington Hotel has been sold by the Nixon family to the pub coast king, Stephen Hunt. Having purchased the pub in 1998, the Nixons have sold the Hotel in line with market guidance, sources say was $15 million, to the Stephen Hunt-led organisation. “This asset has been in the same family for over […]
Laundy Hotels has embraced a new product helping family-friendly pubs offer entertainment for kids through clever commercialisation of AR technology, Tech start-up The Village Co, based in the Hunter Valley, recently launched Grub Lab, providing interactive children’s Augmented Reality (AR) activity packs that come to life with their custom-built applications. After hosting a launch for […]
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