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Pub overturns 'staffies' prosecution

A Byron Bay venue has successfully challenged a charge of late trading for allowing staff drinks after closing. On Good Friday this year police charged...

Newcastle embraces small bar culture

A spate of bar and restaurant openings in Newcastle continues the city’s reinvention as a place of diverse drinking and dining options, shedding its...

The world's best food mash-ups

Donut meet croissant. Noodles, meet hamburger. Now live happily ever after. Food fusions are exciting chefs all over the world. Here are eight courses...

Celebrity Chef faces discrimination claim

Celebrity chef Philip Johnson, who has closed down one Brisbane city restaurant, is facing a discrimination claim over lack of wheelchair access at his...

Mid-strength beers and wines gaining popularity among drinkers

Lighten up - that's the message Australians are sending to wine companies and brewers as consumption of lower-to-mid-strength-drinks grows. Sales of mid-strength...

Rising Sun has the best bistro in Australia

Auburn’s Rising Sun Hotel has taken out the Best Bistro – Regional at the Australian Hotel Association’s National Awards announced in Canberra recently. Owners...

Hunter and the hunted

CREDITORS of the company that in February launched Melbourne restaurant Little Hunter, including celebrity chef Pete Evans, were left $760,000 out of pocket...

Ibis restructure paying dividends

Two years after Accor restructured its economy hotels under the three-tier Ibis megabrand, the hotelier says it has seen a significant increase in revenue...

Cost of identity scanning could ruin bars, warns hotels lobby

Kings Cross hoteliers are warning that scanning technology being mandated by the NSW government will cost them tens of thousands of dollars a year due...

Could Comme mark Maurice Terzini's triumphant return?

Frank van Haandel, director of the Van Haandel Group, has confirmed he is in talks involving his city restaurant Comme with Maurice Terzini, owner of Sydney...