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Julian Gerner heads to the beach

Julian Gerner, who walked away from his role as operations and marketing manager for the Melbourne Pub Group in March, is planning a new venue for Sorrento...

Bellingen's No 2 Oak Street to close

Bellingen's twin-toqued No 2 Oak Street will close on December 21 after the award-winning restaurant failed to sell at auction. Owner Ray Urquhart says...

Melbourne's lone vegan grocer to shut up shop

Victoria's only vegan grocery store is set to close, despite more people making the switch to veganism. The Radical Grocery Store in Brunswick will shut...

New player enters Australian hotel scene

A new hotel company will make its debut in Australia next year. Alpha Hotels & Resorts will start rolling out a range of upper-midscale hotels across...

Durham Castle Arms pub buckling under rising costs

The Durham Castle Arms is hurting. The pub's manager of seven years, Adrian Moran, says the future of the Kingston venue is fraught with uncertainty, with...

Andrew McConnell announces refit for Golden Fields

As predicted here in August, Golden Fields, the wonderful Andrew McConnell restaurant in Melbourne's St Kilda, will close in April. It will reopen two...

How I sold Crust for $41 million: Costa Anastasiadis’s eight lessons

When Costa Anastasiadis founded pizza chain Crust in 2001, he had no strategy, no growth aspirations and, self-professedly, no idea what he was doing. As...

Supermarket found guilty of selling out-of-date products

he Horsham Magistrates Court has fined a Warracknabeal supermarket $12,000 without conviction for selling out-of-date products. Fishers IGA was taken...

Best Western adds Victorian hotel

Best Western has added the Madison Spa Resort in Moama to its Plus hotel range. Located in Victoria on the banks of the Murray River and nestled among...

MONA to build 90-room hotel

Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is set to construct a AUD$25 million, 90-room hotel adjacent to its popular gallery in Rosetta on the shoreline...