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Alpha hotels to launch in 2014

Former SilverNeedle Australian boss Jonathan Wooller has launched Alpha Hotels and Resorts, a chain that’s set to make its debut in 2014. Wooller has...

Queensland hospitality operators lead nation in workplace compliance

Queensland's hospitality businesses lead their interstate counterparts in workplace compliance. Photo: Louie Douvis Queensland's pub, bar and club operators...

Paddington's Fringe Bar gets a gastro pub makeover

The Fringe Bar on Oxford St, Sydney has been reborn as The Unicorn. With a new management team including manager Luke Prout and a new menu from Byron-based...

Top 5 dessert ideas for the perfect party

Executive chef Adam Humphrey from Arras shares his top tips for desserts that will keep guests captivated right until the end of the night (even when they've...

French cafe fed up with rushed customers begins charging more for rudeness

A French café fed up with rude customers has started charging people more if they forget to say please. The owners of Petite Syrah café in Nice have...

Lark bar flies off into the sunset

Brisbane barflies will be in mourning with the news that one of the city's best loved bar/restaurants has closed. The Lark Food & Drink in Paddington...

HPI struggles on debut

Hotel Property Investments has made a lacklustre debut on the Australian Securities Exchange, with shares failing to reach the $2.10 offer price. HPI,...

City Tatts gives Pitt Street a makeover with new hotel, flats and restaurants

The traditional retail fortress of Pitt Street is to get a make over with a new 100 room hotel, more than 200 apartments and restaurants and a new City...

Restaurant prosecuted for 25 food safety breaches

Another Bendigo restaurant has been convicted of food safety breaches in the third such case this year. The director of Asian restaurant Sabah House pleaded...

The new food trends we'll see on restaurant menus in 2014

There will be a lot more kamut, branzino, and buckwheat on American menus next year. That’s according to the latest 2014 Culinary Forecast from the...