The hospitality industry is riddled with issues: a mass-casualised workforce, erratic work hours and easy access to drugs and alcohol. A mental health advocacy group wants to bring about change, but six people working in the trenches tell CityMag it won't happen easily.
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March 14, 2017
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The new restaurant and bar proves that laneway culture can make the transition to the main street.
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Without wanting to evoke any particular theme song, everybody knows the value of a good neighbour. CityMag has found some neighbourly relationships that go beyond the stock-standard water-my- plants-while- I’m-away affair, like that of Union Street's Beg Your Pardon and Mr Goodbar.
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January 13, 2016
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There’s not much point going to a bar if you can’t take your best friend, argues Rory Kennett-Lister.
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February 5, 2015
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Sure, there are lots of bars in the West End now. But there aren’t any even remotely like Pink Moon Saloon – a whimsical, ski chalet-esque venue conceived by those nice guys from Clever Little Tailor and a couple of their friends.
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December 4, 2014
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For one day this summer, when the majority of Adelaide’s bars, restaurants and venues are closed, a handful of musicians and bartenders will forego their usual black attire and don their whites for a Boxing Day cricket match like no other.
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December 4, 2014
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Once four of our favourite bars had offered us a tipple of sherry, we began to feel that it might be a "thing". Discover more to the classic fortified than what your Great Aunt might have shared over happy hour in our first in a new series of articles that seek to explain the city's finer details.
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November 6, 2014
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The success of Adelaide's new small bar movement is often credited to liquor licensing changes and the enthusiasm and hard work of venue owners. But few people know about the salvage yard in Wingfield that's making a significant contribution to the city's transformation.
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