WILLIAMSTOWN’S STAR RISES AGAIN

Serial pub revivers Matt Vero and Stephen Mitchell have brought the love back to Williamstown’s much-missed Morning Star Hotel, with a fresh design and tilt to family-focus.   Built 1890, the Star of the Williamstown peninsula succumbed to the ravages

NO MORNING STAR FOR MELBOURNE

The purgatory being felt in pubs in Victoria has claimed its first victims, with two popular Melbourne hotels announcing permanent closure in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade and a half the historic Mona Castle Hotel