‘The Wang’ Gears Up for a Gourmet Glow-Up

The Burrawang Village Hotel has been sold to a local investor with plans afoot to reposition the famous hotel with a more contemporary food and beverage proposition.

The hotel was sold by leading pub brokerage HTL Property with Sam Handy and Blake Edwards negotiating the transaction after a fiercely competitive on-market campaign.

Affectionately known by locals as ‘The Wang’, the Burrawang Village Hotel is a focal point within the Southern Highlands community and is strategically nestled between the regional villages of Robertson, Moss Vale, Bowral & Mittagong.

It is separately very popular with tourists and day trippers seeking an authentically regional English countryside style experience; characterised by the region’s rolling green hills, historic attractions, quaint village setting and tranquil atmosphere.

The leasehold interest was publicly offered to market late last year and traded just prior to Christmas with an extended settlement in place.

The outgoing tenants represented a consortium comprising the husband and wife team of Peter and Kate Dean, in combination with Jamie Couche – owner of the famous Lord Dudley Hotel in Sydney’s Paddington. They had owned and operated the hotel for a period of eight years, with the rationale behind the sale being their collective desire to focus on existing hospitality interests both locally and back in Sydney.

The successful purchasers enjoy existing hospitality interests within the region, and have closed the hotel down with plans to extensively renovate and refurbish the property with a repositioned food and beverage offering. They have a strong and successful pedigree in restaurants with market murmurs indicating that former Icebergs Dining Head Chef & Culinary Director Alex Prichard has been secured to consult on the menu.

The successful purchasers have temporarily closed the hotel to undertake essential repairs and maintenance with plans to reopen sections of the pub in early April. The pub will be fitted out with a new state-of-art-kitchen, bar equipment, loads of teak from local purveyor Cotswold Furniture; plus a beautiful new decorating scheme heavily influenced by English countryside furniture and fabrics.

‘We marketed the hotel as a blank canvas ready for a more food and beverage focused hotelier, or restaurateur, to activate an elevated food and beverage proposition within one of the most picturesque pub settings in the country’ suggested HTL Property Director Sam Handy.

‘We’re delighted for both our outgoing clients in the Dean and Couche family, whilst also being excited to see the next iteration of the Burrawang Village Hotel under the stewardship of its new custodian’, Handy added.

This sale comes just weeks after HTL Property announced the successful sale of the freehold component of the nearby Argyle Hotel in Moss Vale for around $11,000,000, with the same agents having also transacted the Moss Vale Hotel for close to $15,000,000 in late 2022.

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