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Hotels hit the market

The Australian property market is awash with hotels. The big driver of the boom is at least $1.1 billion worth of Accor-branded hotels which have now...

Rick Shores head chef goes bankrupt

James Brady, the head chef at top Gold Coast restaurant Rick Shores is in financial strife. Brady, who started his food career peeling potatoes in a famous...

New hotel law hits resorts

Offshore companies selling hotel bookings in Australia will have to to pay the same GST as Australian companies. A draft released by Treasury explaining...

Aria picks up wine list of the year award

Aria restaurant in Brisbane has won the Australian Wine List of the Year Award. It’s a big win for then restaurant in Brisbane’s CBD. It’s the first...

Hotel room rates in Melbourne contract

Melbourne’s hotel market is expanding but its room rates have been shrinking because of the increase in hotel stock and the high quality of Airbnb stock...

Boathouse Group expands

The Boathouse Group is growing. It has accumulated eight venues. Its most recent acquisition is the Palm Beach restaurant institution Barrenjoey House. It...

Gai Waterhouse stabelhand sentenced for drunken rage

British national Elizabeth Hasler has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service for attacking her Gai Waterhouse colleague in what a Sydney magistrate...

Chef Robert Marchetti brings his famed dining to Perth’s new QT hotel

ROBERT Marchetti likes to make a scene. Throughout his career, the New York- based, Italian-Australian chef and restaurateur has opened some of Australasia’s...

Waitan Restaurant collapses as group’s director sells his Castle Cove mansion for a loss

Five years after the upmarket Waitan Restaurant opened as Chinatown’s answer to Justin Hemmes’ The Ivy party venue, the doors have closed and liquidators...

Newtown pub manager fired for joking about violence towards women

The manager of a Newtown pub, Gary Wright, has lost his job for making light of violence against women in a post on the pub’s Facebook page. He posted...