Category: Hospitality Industry

Having returned to family hands, Crittenden Restaurant has reopened with a completely reimagined dining experience.   Margaret and Garry Crittenden established the winery restaurant in the Mornington Peninsula in the 1990s. The restaurant was previously leased to an outside operator, but last year returned to family ownership.   The family has transformed the restaurant from the ground up…

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has recovered $358 million for more than 249,000 unpaid workers in the last financial year, including its highest ever from a single legal action.   The FWO hit record annual penalties, in part due to ordering operators of Sushi Bay outlets in New South Wales, Darwin, and Canberra to pay $15.3m for deliberately underpaying 163…

Gosford’s soon-to-launch dining and accommodation quarter, The Archibald Precinct, has unveiled more details around its array of restaurants and bars. At the fore of the announcement is Executive Chef Maxime Chasseriaud, a Paris-born chef who trained at the three-Michelin-starred Alain Ducasse Plaza Athénée, and did stints at Queenstown’s Rātā and in Sydney with Dany Karam…

When Lorenzo Petrachi set out to open don Fred in Newtown a few years ago, the only thing he was certain of was what he wasn’t going to do. “Big rent? No way. Chicken? No way,” Petrachi tells Hospitality. “You sort of go, what am I left with?”  The answer was a small restaurant at the City…

When café and roaster Single O decided to track its emissions, the business quickly realised that incorrect disposal of coffee grounds was contributing to a whopping 30 per cent of the its total footprint. The amount of coffee grounds that end up in waste, despite their rich potential, is a problem every cafe worker knows…

Fancy takeaway fish and chips or a long lunch with ocean views? New South Wales will soon have its own version of Queensland’s popular Burleigh Pavilion. Opening on the Central Coast in mid-November, Terrigal Pavilion will offer three different dining experiences just over an hour from Sydney.   Ben May, who is behind the Burleigh Pavilion, and…

SRG Hospitality has been announced as the The Langham, Sydney’s exclusive food and beverage partner, in what the brands have labelled a “significant move”.   SRG (formerly Sydney Restaurant Group) will oversee the luxury hotel’s entire food and beverage portfolio, effective immediately. It marks SRG’s first foray into hotel dining, a natural evolution for the group…

Table For, the new in-house food and beverage group from Australia’s largest hotel operator, Accor, will open its first venues next month.    In collaboration with the Maybe Group (Maybe Sammy), Bar Allora will open in Bond St in mid-November, while El Vista will open in Circular Quay later in the month.   Bar Allora is a modern Italian…

Leading women in hospitality are coming together to support ovarian cancer research at the final Collabor8Women event of the year. The sold out lunch at Love.fish in Barangaroo will see proceeds go to the Ovaries. Talk About Them, a campaign which aims to fast-track ovarian cancer early detection tests into clinical trials. The campaign features…

The landmark King and Godfree building on Lygon Street will soon be home to three new venues from owner Jamie Valmorbida (Pidapipo; Johnny’s Green Room). Valmorbida says the new concepts, including an all-day neighbourhood osteria and wine bar; a casual pizzeria in the former Agostino space; and a late-night cocktail and music bar in the…