by Dave Hukka | Jan 23, 2017 | Restaurants
With its reputation for sky-high rents, New York City is a tough place to set up shop. As mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan famously put it: The rents are too damn high! But New York entrepreneurs aren’t letting the city’s exorbitant rents get in the way of business...
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 | Dec 14, 2016 | Restaurants
From New York to Paris to Tokyo, food truck culture has really taken off in recent years. And as food truck fever takes the world by storm, Sydney foodies have quite literally hopped on the bandwagon. One popular addition to the Sydney food truck scene goes by the...
by Dave Hukka | Dec 7, 2016 | Community, Retail
For more than a century, the Queen Victoria Market has been Melbourne’s go-to trading hub for fresh food, produce, home wares and souvenirs. In 2012, the market’s southernmost aisle was given a makeover and renamed String Bean Alley, in honour of the farmers who once...
by Dave Hukka | Nov 23, 2016 | Offices
When American dog supplies and accessories company Kurgo outgrew their Massachusetts headquarters, they used recycled shipping containers to transform their existing warehouse space into a colourful, canine wonderland. Owners Kitter and Gordie Spater teamed up with...
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 | Oct 23, 2016 | Community
The sight of shipping containers is not uncommon along the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne’s west. The nearby Port of Melbourne is Australia’s busiest port for containerised cargo, handling millions of tonnes of cargo each year. Towering stacks of...
by Dave Hukka | Oct 10, 2016 | Community
When a bright purple shipping container first arrived on Paisley Street in Melbourne’s West in 2014, the locals might have wondered if the artist formerly known as Prince was somehow involved. But the conspicuous vessel soon came to be known as Artsbox, a...
by Dave Hukka | Sep 19, 2016 | Community
Melbourne has seen its fair share of container clad pop up shops and bars in recent years; Melbournians love a good pop up. But the latest pop up phenomenon to sprout up at the edge of the city has taken root in a more literal sense. Run by the gardening gurus at The...
