HAMMOND & CO REMAKE OF THE CLASSIC VICTORIA HOTEL

Anthony Hammond is taking his gastro-pub experience and reinventing Footscray’s tired Hart’s Hotel into an affordable family-focused local boozer. Hammond is one half of the team that created Fitzroy’s acclaimed Builder’s Arms Hotel, with its culinary masterpieces Moon Under Water

TEAM BEHIND MARQUIS OF LORNE CLIMB MT ERICA

After closing suddenly at the end of 2016, Prahran’s Victorian-era Mt Erica Hotel will soon be reopened with a new fit-out and old soul. Furthering and following on from their successes at Fitzroy’s Marquis of Lorne, Will Benjamin, Matt Vero

AHA SA AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE – HEAR THEM ROAR

The AHA SA held its Awards for Excellence this week, with plenty of cream rising to the top and the Lion again leader of the pack. Adelaide’s Entertainment Centre hosted the Awards on Tuesday night, with the best of the

IRIS PUTS CLOVELLY FREEHOLD TO MARKET

Sam Arnaout’s Iris Capital has listed the freehold of its iconic Clovelly Hotel, armed with a 20-year lease to Bruce Solomon & Matt Moran’s Morsol. Iris has held the Clovelly since 2008, and executed a huge redevelopment in 2012, bringing

MYSTERY MILLIONAIRE AT REDCAPE’S WATTLE HOTEL

Redcape’s family-centric Wattle Hotel has been buzzing with the news of an unclaimed million-dollar Keno win. The Wattle, in Upper Coomera, just north of the Gold Coast, prides itself on being the “heart of Coomera” and offering “something for mum,

INJURED SECURITY GUARD SUES COMPANY AND VENUE

Years after its closure, former guard Fady Taiba is suing Bar 333 and his employer, Prime Security, over injuries sustained in a coward punch by a drunken finance worker. On the evening of Friday, 6 September 2013, Taiba was working

NEW OWNER SOUGHT FOR CROSSROADS HOTEL

Narrabri’s Crossroads Hotel has come to market, boasting a big operation, two-dozen 4-star rooms and its very own bowling alley. On the stretch of the Newall Highway where it crosses the Kamilaroi Highway, the Crossroads Hotel occupies a generous 1,677m²

REGIONAL STAR MULGILDIE PUB UP FOR GRABS

After 14 years, the owners of one of Queensland’s most colourful country pubs have called time, listing their self-made landmark in the sleepy town of Mulgildie. Artist-publican Julie South and husband Tony Davenport were nearly not the owners of postcard

HETHERINGTON-MULLINS LIST BIG-FORMAT GUNYAH HOTEL

Three league legends have called time and listed their long-held Gunyah Hotel in Lake Macquarie – still building on a recent big renovation. Hetherington brothers Brett and Jason and family have owned the Gunyah with Canberra Raiders’ Brett Mullins and