Gold Coast

SURFERS PARADISE BANS PUB CRAWLS

Posted on July 7th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A battle is being waged over the right to party, seeing venue operators and council wanting to end the infamous ‘pub crawls’ of Surfers, while crawl operators refuse to go quietly into the night. Licensees of the Surfers Paradise Licenced

GOLD COAST PUB & BOTTLE SHOPS ON OFFER

Posted on October 13th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The Gold Coast’s Currumbin Creek Tavern has come to market, with a big footprint and four associated bottle shops. The Currumbin pub was purpose-built by owner and vendor Tony Condon on a 1,610sqm block off the Gold Coast Highway, minutes

AHA NATIONAL AWARDS GO OFF WITH A BANG

Posted on September 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Australia’s hospitality elite gathered Monday night to celebrate the best of the best at the 2017 AHA National Awards for Excellence. The event took place for the second year at the magnificent RACV Royal Pines Resort, facilitating an outdoor aspect

NEW SYNDICATE GRABS THOMAS’ TREETOPS PUB FOR $20m

Posted on June 3rd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A new pub syndicate led by well-known hotelier Peter Ashelford and Sydney Roosters chairman Nick Politis has snapped up the Thomas’ Treetops Tavern on the Gold Coast for $20 million. The Treetops occupies a prominent 7,000 m² site in the

MARKET SEES MELBA’S ON THE MARK

Posted on February 1st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A Sydney publican is divesting his booming Surfer’s Paradise pub, as Queensland hotel assets greet a thirsty 2016 market. George Fleming has owned Melba’s on the Park for a number of years, and following its massive reinvigoration has determined to

PATRON PUNCH SEES PATRON DEATH AND NEW CHARGES

Posted on December 16th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A shameful incident outside a Gold Coast pub a week ago has escalated, with the victim of an assault dying in hospital on Monday. Around 2:30am on Friday, 4 December, two men “unknown to each other” are reported to have