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Barangaroo House is set to get a little louder when Rekōdo restaurant and vinyl bar joins the house mix on level one, Friday 16 September. A nod to Japanese listening rooms, Rekōdo (Japanese for ‘record’) blurs the line between food, drink and music to create an immersive restaurant and vinyl bar with a Japanese bent. 

Hospitality operator Solotel will fast-track the Fair Work Commission’s minimum wage increase to begin 4 July, almost three months earlier than the 1 October requirement. This will increase pay for staff employed across Solotel’s 25 pubs, bars, and restaurants.
 

Hospitality operator Solotel is turning the longest night of the year – winter solstice on 21 June – into a week-long after-dark celebration with music, light and art experiences across 17 pubs and bars in Sydney. Vibrant and diverse, The Longest Night program features more than 200 artists and collaborators ranging from music headliners Set Mo, Lotic (Germany), and Yolanda Be Cool to pop-up art installations by the National Art School, Queer Screen film screenings to incredible full venue light and projection installations.

Come in spinner! ANZAC Day commemorations are back to full scale in 2022 and bigger than ever as two-up can legally be played each day of the ANZAC Day long weekend. Solotel’s venues are proud to honour our service men and women and host two-up across the below venues. All venues will also help to raise funds for Legacy Australia which support the partners and children of those who gave their lives or their health in service for our country.
 

Solotel Group is raising a glass to help flood relief efforts. Until Sunday 10 April, Solotel will donate $1 from the sale of every schooner and pint of VB, Carlton Draught, Great Northern, Balter, 4 Pines, Peroni, Bulmers cider and many more to the Red Cross Flood Appeal.

Sydney Cocktail Festival returns to the iconic Opera Bar this month, celebrating our city’s great small bars, the incredible cocktails they create, and the talented people who make them. Bartenders from 13 of Sydney’s most innovative cocktail bars - including Re, Maybe Sammy, PS40, and Double Deuce Lounge - are set to shake and stir 26 different cocktails recipes over two days, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 March. 

The glitter guns are ready as Solotel Group goes into maximum party mode this Mardi Gras. Queens Cross Hotel (normally Kings Cross Hotel), Bank Hotel, and Darlo Bar are the best spots to party in the Cross, Newtown, Darlinghurst, and Surry Hills. Here’s what’s happening…

Solotel, Australia’s most diverse hospitality group, is celebrating what is set to be one of Sydney’s most iconic comebacks of all time with a huge line-up of experiences, events and late-night parties that Sydney has missed oh so much. ‘Back Together, Now We Dance!’ officially launches today and the full programme can be found at https://www.solotel.com.au/summer

We are pleased to announce that Solotel Group has purchased the Carousel Inn at Rooty Hill. This is an important growth step for the Group – as we leap into the North West of Sydney and expand our diverse set of pubs, bars and restaurants.

Mark your calendars… Sydney’s free 24 Hour Party has a brand new date – Saturday 3 July – and a raft of incredible new acts in the line up. Solotel Group is thrilled to announce that indie-pop Northern Beaches band Lime Cordiale (DJ set), electronic house dance duo The Aston Shuffle, club DJ Toni Yotzi, and several others join original line up’s singer songwriter headliners Hayley Mary, Banoffee, and 80+ other incredible act

Newtown has a banging new middle eastern-inspired eatery and cocktail haunt, Avi’s Kantini, opening Thursday 6 May. You’ll find Avi’s Kantini inside The Bank – home of well-known live music venue, Waywards and dedicated craft beer bar, Uncle Hops. So, expect it to be loud, loose and a lot of fun.
 

Sydney is getting a free 24 Hour Party with more than 80 of the country’s best DJ and live acts performing across 12 of the city’s venues throughout Saturday 15 May and the early hours of Sunday 16 May. 

From Monday 29 March, Sydneysiders can once again cut shapes on the d-floor and dance to live music at their favourite pubs and bars.
Solotel Group is thrilled to announce it will host Sydney’s first dancefloor post restrictions easing – as the clock strikes 12.01am on Monday morning and the NSW Government updates come into action, nightlife icon Kings Cross Hotel cranks the tunes and the dancefloor is ON until late.
 

Opera Kitchen reopens as a vibrant market food hall  Matt Moran and Solotel Group are thrilled to announce the reopening of the Sydney Opera House’s dining venue Opera Kitchen as a vibrant market food hall destination on Wednesday 24 March 2021. The venue reopens with an Italian-influenced bakery and pasta bar, as well as a Japanese-influenced kitchen serving ramen and poke bowls until late.

After a public tender process, Solotel Group has been appointed as the new operator of the Sydney Opera House dining venue Opera Kitchen for a 12-month term.  

Solotel Group is turning up the dial on this year’s Mardi Gras to make 2021 one of its best celebrations ever. Kings Cross Hotel, Bank Hotel, Clock Hotel, Darlo Bar, Marly, and Paddo Inn are all set to be the places to party in the Cross, Newtown, Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, and Paddington. 

After more than 20 years at Solotel, Justine has decided to pursue other opportunities for her career however will continue as an advisor for the Solotel Board. As CEO, Elliot will be responsible for the group’s 25 pubs, bars and restaurants which include The Golden Sheaf, Opera Bar, Barangaroo House, Goros, Paddo Inn, Darlo Bar and Chiswick Woollahra. 

Vacays to Italy may be off the cards but you can still get your Italiano fix at Barangaroo House this summer. From 21 January through to 28 February, the first-ever secretive Campari Aperitivo Window opens at rooftop Smoke Bar.

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Solotel have completed the sale of the Green Park Hotel to the Trustees of St Vincent’s Hospital to use for hospital related patient care, training and research endeavours.

Annette Lacey, Solotel Group Beverage Manager, has joined the prestigious international Masters of Wine (MW) community after completing the globally-renowned exam at the Institute of Masters of Wine.

As the finish line for 2020 gets closer, the reasons to celebrate grow bigger. Ditch the sad ‘virtual drinks’ and gather your gang to hang out in real life at some of Sydney’s best pubs and eateries which are turning on the festive spirit this Christmas.

After seven fabulous years at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Chiswick at the Gallery will be serving its final guests in January 2021 with a new collaboration between AGNSW and Matt Moran set to begin.

Sydney’s iconic Opera Bar, in collaboration with Bacardi Martini Australia, is set to host the inaugural Sydney Cocktail Festival – a three-day harbourside celebration of our city’s great small bars, the incredible cocktails they create, and the talented people who make them.

Kings Cross Hotel and Bacardi are set to transform the level six rooftop into Tupu’s Tiki Rooftop Rumshack from 16 October to 28 November. Step into a lush tiki escape (minus the passport) to find an array of classic and twisted Bacardi tiki cocktails.

After 20 years in Surry Hills, IL BARETTO will reopen at the back of the Paddo Inn, in the former dining room space, from Friday 9 October.

Solotel Group welcomes the NSW Government’s 24-hour Economy Strategy for Greater Sydney.

Australia’s iconic harbourfront bar has a revamped, local menu and is taking bookings for the first time. Matt Moran and Solotel welcome Sydneysiders back to Opera Bar from Thursday 10 September, just in time for spring.

Matt Moran and Solotel Group are thrilled to reopen Sydney waterfront venue Barangaroo House just in time for spring. Ground floor House Bar opens its doors on 31 August, before BEA restaurant and Smoke rooftop bar on 2 September. 

The news follows the NSW Government announcement last Friday which eased COVID-19 restrictions and allowed for pubs, bars and restaurants to open with a maximum capacity of 50 persons from Monday 1 June.

Today Chiswick announces the launch of its at home menu, bringing much-loved favourites plus some fresh takes on classics to home dining rooms across Sydney, arriving just in time for Mother’s Day.

Chophouse Parramatta to close on 21 December 2019.