Exeter Hotel

The Olivia Hotel takes hospitality back to basics

If you're looking for a theme at new Hutt Street small bar The Olivia Hotel, what you'll find is simplicity in offering and service.

Meet the chef bringing a fortnightly ramen night to the Exeter

After finishing up at Orana, chef Justin Healy has dived into an obsession with Japanese soup, launching pop-up ramen shop Quality NOODS at the Exeter on Sunday, 16 August.

No, the Exeter is not setting up a balcony pokie parlour

Kevin Gregg, co-owner of the Exeter Hotel, puts an end to rumours swirling around the pub kicked off by scaffolding clung to its façade (and some cheeky bar staff).

LIVE: From the Exeter

An hour-by-hour account of the Exeter Hotel's first day of trade in 70 days.

Front Bar Diplomacy: Council candidates debate EV, city safety

CityMag invited three wannabe Adelaide city councillors to decorate the mahogany in the Exeter's front bar while debating how they would change the city if successful in the upcoming council elections.

The Shaolin Afronauts on releasing five albums at once

Avant-garde Afrobeat 12-piece The Shaolin Afronauts will drop 29 songs simultaneously this month. Ahead of the titanic release, the band’s bass guitarist and composer says the box set is an experimental marvel and a declaration of war against singles.

A new bar called Smokelovers is opening at the old Smokelovers

A new East End bar, headed-up by former Exeter Hotel veteran bartender Hamish Tregeagle, will open in December this year, specialising in classic cocktails and a splash of nostalgia.

‘We will suffer’: Hospitality venues buckle under six-day lockdown

Bars, pubs and restaurants were one of the hardest hit sectors from the original coronavirus lockdown, and just as they were starting to recover they’ve been knocked back again.