by Dave Hukka | Mar 20, 2017 | Bars
Melbourne’s newest bar is an indicator that the city’s thriving laneway culture can, in fact, be contained. An impressive new container bar called Whitehart sprouted up this month in a former parking lot at the end of Whitehart Lane. The two-storey, open-air watering...
by Dave Hukka | Jan 11, 2017 | Bars, Restaurants
The eternal search for Australia’s most innovative eateries often leads to Melbourne and Sydney. But West Australian hospitality trailblazers Hamish Fleming and Siobhan Blumann put Fremantle on the foodie map when they opened Propeller in 2014. Fashioned from a...
by Dave Hukka | Dec 18, 2016 | Bars, Restaurants
With the arrival of the summer season in Perth, a popular new shipping container bar has popped up on the banks of the Swan River. Embargo Container Bar will be docked on both sides of the river – Elizabeth Quay and South Perth Foreshore – for the 2016/17...
by Dave Hukka | Nov 10, 2016 | Bars, Community, Uncategorised
As Great Britain emerged from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, pubs were closing at an alarming rate. In 2009, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) estimated that 52 British pubs were closing each week. But the 2012 arrival of Hall & Woodhouse in Portishead...
by Dave Hukka | Sep 11, 2016 | Bars, Community, Restaurants
A colourful new container taqueria is importing more than Mexican beers to the historic U Street Corridor in Washington DC. Run by brothers Eric and Ian Hilton, El Rey is bringing the neighbourhood back to life. Fondly referred to as Black Broadway, the popular U...
by Dave Hukka | Aug 2, 2016 | Bars, Restaurants
With more than twenty years of experience in the beer game, Colorado brewery Ska Brewing now adds pizza to their repertoire with a striking shipping container café called Container of Food. Located onsite at the Durango headquarters of Ska Brewing, Container of Food...