Hospitality News & Trends

A wealthy fashion couple’s move to close down one of Sydney’s oldest pubs has been shot down in flames.

Live music venue The Beast in Melbourne’s inner north, also the home of Australia’s largest chilli eating contest, has a new owner. And tea company T2’s Fitzroy birthplace has also sold.

Australia and great coffee are now synonymous. Despite being admittedly ‘new world’ when it comes to our history with the addictive brew, thanks to a few decades worth of finessing and refinement, Aussie-style coffee has …

As one of Sydney’s oldest night spots, 169 Oxford Street has operated under many different names over the years, from Miind Club and Suzie Q’s to Nevermind.   In the 1990s, when it was called Byblos …

The famous home of eatery and live music venue The Beast has hit the market. The ultra-cool spot has hosted bands, chilli eating championships and Mexican wrestling.

Celebrated pastry chef Darren Purchese worked at London’s Savoy Hotel before moving to Australia in the early 2000s, where he worked as a pastry chef at Vue De Monde in Melbourne and Bennelong in Sydney. …

The billionaire chairman of Sydney Roosters is backing an offmarket takeover bid for several popular pubs across Maroons territory stretching from Brisbane to the Gold Coast.

Backed by the deep-pocketed Wattlestone, Travellers Group has bought another boutique regional asset with a strategy mapped out by its former investment banker founder.

Fu Wah International Group is expected to offload one of the country’s best-known luxury hotels as the Victorian capital faces a tough outlook.