MARCH INTO MERIVALE – FOR 1 NIGHT ONLY
After a booming year of acquisitions and openings, on Wednesday Merivale delivered March Into Merivale 2017 in one spectacular night, taking over the entire ivy complex and surrounding laneways. Ash Street was transformed into an Asian street food market, sporting
LAUNDYS SLAMMED OVER PERCEIVED PENALTY RATES CONFLICT
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
HEMMES CALMS STORM OVER TATTOOED SOCIALITE DENIED AT COOGEE
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
MURDER CHARGE FOR MAN WHO RAN OVER ‘MATE’ IN PUB CAR PARK
Two adolescent men are facing Court charged with multiple serious offences including attempted murder, after they drove their car over a mate during a brawl in a pub car park. Around 2am last Saturday two groups of young men began
DISNEY PUB CRAWL ATTRACTS WARNING FROM AUTHORITIES
A Disney-themed dress-up pub crawl set to take place next month in Dublin has been criticised by the venerable Alcohol Action Ireland as … “strange”. The themed pub crawl – which is in no way endorsed by the Disney corporation
RED HOT & DRAG QUEEN PRISCILLA’S PALACE HOTEL UP FOR GRABS
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
HOTEL LIQUOR STABLE AS DAN’S DOMINANCE GROWS
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
NEW FLINDERS HOTEL OPENS TO REVISED SYDNEY MARKET
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
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
BAYFIELDS PUBS RUBY ANNIVERSARY REPUTE
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,