Julien Moussi to open third pub

Julien Moussi will reopen Hawthorn’s Beehive Hotel, 15 years after it closed as a pub.

At 84 Barkers Road, on the south east corner of High Street (Google Street View image, top), the venue will be the executive’s third pub; via his Only Hospitality, he also controls Hotel Collingwood, formerly known as the Robert Burns Hotel, and Williamstown’s Hobsons Bay Hotel.
The deal comes a month since the businessman snared a high profile former first class lounge abutting South Yarra Station, on Toorak Rd, for a bar.
Mr Moussi also owns a portfolio of inner and middle ring cafes and a coffee roasting business, Inglewood.
Beehive to make a comeback
Licensed for 300 patrons, the Beehive, also once known as the Barkers Hotel, will be a joint venture with Tony Pantano, Only’s chief operating officer who, like Mr Moussi, was raised in the area.
A renovation is underway ahead of a July 15 opening, it will include a bar, bistros and beer garden (story continues below).
Developed in 1882 replacing a venue trading by the same name but elsewhere, established in 1854, the property has in recent years accommodated restaurants Serafina and Butchers & Vine.
Publican Rick Munday also owned the leasehold for a few years after 2016.
Mr Moussi and Mr Pantano have called in chef Chris Randell to run the dining rooms.
The 1443 square metre holding, including a car park.
Hawthorn is six kilometres east of Melbourne’s CBD.
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