The prominent Royal Coach Hotel has been strategically bought by Prince Alfred College, banking a long-term development opportunity. Vendors Hospitality Investments P/L and McCracken Kent Town P/L have divested the three-storey city-fringe Hotel, which features a bar, the Terrace Restaurant, conference and function facilities, 49 guest rooms offering 24-hour room service, an indoor swimming pool […]
A prominent Sydney tabloid has attacked the Laundy group, particularly elected MP Craig Laundy, over a supposed conflict between long-defunct employee agreements and cuts to penalty rates. The Daily Telegraph claims Craig Laundy, elected to the western Sydney seat of Reid in 2013, had workplace agreements at two of the family’s hotels “thrown out because
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Merivale found itself the centre of a media storm this week, after socialite Gordana Poljak was refused entry by an overzealous doorman due to her gratuitous tattoos. The tattoo queen champions her decorative ink and operates a business combining the art form with make-up, called Dr Freckle and Mr Hide. She has reportedly worked on
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One of Australia’s most legendary pubs – a star of Priscilla Queen of the Desert – is set to kick up its heels and head to market. The Palace Hotel, Broken Hill’s best-known pub, was originally built in 1889 as a coffee house, before getting its licence in 1892. The magnificent three-storey structure was designed
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Take-away liquor in Australia is increasingly dominated by the big-box discounters at the expense of hotels, which now represent only one in eight sales. The latest purchasing data from Roy Morgan puts the value of the Australian off-premise alcohol market at $14.5bn, with nearly three quarters of that going to supermarket-connected chains. The indomitable Dan
Looking to the future, long-standing Sydney local the Flinders Hotel has reopened to a new environment in a new year. Located on Flinders Street, close to gay-central Taylor Square and just inside the wet-blanket lockout zone, the Flinders has had a long history as a somewhat sordid late-trader, typically haunted by Oxford Street flotsam and
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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 House Management Group (PHMG). PHMG was in the process of consolidating an unprecedented presence in
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The Bayfield family is celebrating its 40th anniversary in pubs, keeping up business as usual, fighting cancer and brewing ale. On 27 March this year it will be 40 years since the family took possession of the Dee Why Hotel, which they still own and operate, along with their adjacent Bayfields Liquor Superstore, online business,
The refurbished Kalamia Hotel is on the market, in Australia’s sugarcane capital in north Queensland. Ayr is located about 90 kilometres’ south-east of Townsville, part of the Burdekin Shire, which produces the most sugarcane per square kilometre in the country. The Kalamia Hotel occupies a 3,746 m² block on Queen Street and comprises a public
American brewing giant Budweiser recently discussed brewing on Mars at a conference in Texas, but there are more challenges than you might think – as Aussie brewers already figured out. The South By Southwest Conference took place in Austin, Texas, and the guest panel featured former astronaut Clayton Anderson, Budweiser VP Richardo Marques, and Anheuser-Busch’s
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