MYSTERIOUS MONARCH SELLS BIG BANKSIA TO RYANS

Emerging pub group Monarch has divested its big footprint high-gaming Banksia Hotel in Rockdale to industry stalwarts Patrick Ryan and family. The Banksia was purchased by Monarch Hotels – a joint venture between hotel business veteran Joel Fisher and New

PADDO PUB CELEBRITY CHEF FASSNIDGE BACK IN BANKSIA

Celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge is back in the pub game, steering the pots at the reinvented Banksia Hotel’s ‘Banksia Bistro’. Fassnidge departed his iconic gastro pub the Four in Hand after its sale in late 2015 to Mitchell Waugh’s Public

$50m ACQUISITIONS FOR QUIET NEW PUB GROUP

News is emerging of a new pub group with deep pockets, amid the announcement the Waugh family has sold the Banksia Hotel and the Belmore Hotel. [caption id="attachment_4713" align="alignright" width="309"] Image: website[/caption] Quietly entering the industry with the recent purchase