A few weeks ago we told you about the renovations happening at the old Silk Hotel. Well now we can tell you that the team behind those renovations recently won the Best New Pub award at the 2014 Bar Awards for their work at The Oxford Tavern in Sydney.
OPENING NIGHT
The best thing is, you wont have to wait long to get a look inside, The Family Hotel will reopen in Newcastle West this Thursday, July 21! And you’re invited.
The owners of The Family have invited the Newcastle Live community to join them on the opening night.
Meet the team behind the pub who will be happy to share stories with those who remember the old Family Hotel, and to offer some historical gems to folks newer to the area.
Just head to thefamilyhotel.net and RSVP! We’ll see you there!
THE GLORY DAYS
As a tribute to the glory days of pubs, gone are all gambling facilities, the pokies and TAB have been replaced with a kitchen that has been described as Nona’s Italian meets dude food with some pub classics. This has been backed up with a drinks list that brings the fun back to cocktails like the Dr. Jurds Jungle Juice spritz–and it all comes together in a venue dressed in bric-a-brac that makes this pub uniquely Newcastle. Where else would you find a shrine to Yahoo Serious / Young Einstein?!
Located on the corner of Hunter and Steel Streets, directly opposite NSW Health, and two blocks north of the Market Town shopping centre the pub had been previously known as The Ducks Nuts Hotel, and then Silk Hotel but new licensee, Steven Forbes is returning to the name the pub operated under from the late 1930s until the mid 1990s when it was then changed.
FORBS
Forbes had this to say about reopening the hotel “I grew up in Mayfield but after spending the last 10 years running pubs in Sydney it was time to come home. I chose The Family because it’s similar to the last pub I ran, The Oxford Tavern. In just 12 months we flipped the Tav from being a dodgy 24-hour stripper pub in Petersham full of pokies to being a community minded venue that was awarded Best New Pub of The Year at the 2014 Bar Awards. I’m confident we can do something similar here at The Family because we’re not just called The Family Hotel, we are a family hotel.”
