Equip your business with HORECANO.
Equip your business with HORECANO.
Restaurants, cafes & hotels sharpen up! If you’re in the hospitality biz and haven’t heard of HORECANO, it’s time to get acquainted. You have state-of-the-art dining and kitchenware at your knife-tip! If that announcement failed to skewer your curiosity, we’re afraid you may have fallen victim to wearisome wholesale supplies. Keep your toque intact now! We are here to help you ditch the dull with HORECANO, the international import and export market moguls based in Bulgaria. Revamping your restaurant never sounded so sexy!
HORECANO isn’t just any supplier; they’re line-leading global export and import distributors for hotels, restaurants, catering, bars, and homewares. This family-owned gem has been dishing out top-notch hotel, restaurant, catering, bar, and homeware equipment since 1993. And just like a barrel aged whisky they’ve only gotten better with time. They have accumulated an unrivalled collection of over 20,000 unique goods that interchange with trends and consumer needs. They’re a fine-tuned enterprise, making their service and supply unparalleled.
HORECANO’s secret sauce? A commitment to quality and innovation that’s as strong as a double espresso. Whether you’re in hotels, restaurants, bars, or catering, there’s an inventory ready to delve into. From elegant porcelain and glassware to sturdy cutlery and chic furniture, they’ve got everything you need to make your establishment shine. And let’s not forget their cooking and cleaning supplies – because a clean kitchen is a happy kitchen, right? We won’t assume your needs, so let’s whisk through the highlights, shall we?
Whether your establishment calls for dishes embellished with exotic patterns, contemporary detailing, or pure and undecorated, their porcelain collection caters to all dining decors. For you bartenders and baristas out there, they have drinkware for whatever you’re shaking up or pouring down. If your business needs a spruce from the ground up, check out their selection of tables, chairs, sun lounges, gazebos, and umbrellas!
But wait, there’s more! For those small touches that make a big impact, elevate your cafe, catering service or restaurant’s food presentation with some charming presentation paper or one of their unique serving dishes, slates, boards, or baskets. In terms of kitchenware, they have you covered from A to Z with enough knives, chopping boards, and cookware to poke a ladle at. They even have the delivery guy covered with food transport!
Their attention to customer needs is as considered as the selection of goods themselves. With a model balance of price, quality and design, they keep their client’s best interests in mind, bringing them to the forefront of their industry. With their purpose-built warehouses and showrooms across Bulgaria and internationally, their wide-spread coverage ensures a speedy, flexible and reliable supply. Sourced from over 100 well-respected factories across Italy, China, India, Brazil, Columbia, Thailand, Turkey and the European Union, their company has developed to become a globally trusted and reliable supplier of goods.
Ready to elevate your hospo game? Dive into HORECANO’s catalogue for your next routine restock or a total refresh that will make your competitors green with envy.
Website: horecano.com
Instagram: @horecano_au
Words by Chelsea Ipsen
STORY SPONSORED BY HORECANO
If your idea of happiness is the smell of freshly ground beans, the sound of a superior coffee machine working its wizardry, and the taste of a perfectly crafted cup of joe, then you’re about to percolate with excitement. Welcome to Barista Equip, the first full-service coffee centre on the Coast, brewing up a storm with their latest showroom at Burleigh HQ.
Opening in 2023, this epicentre of all-things-coffee showcases the latest and greatest in commercial and home coffee equipment, making it the it-girl destination for every coffee connoisseur.
Whether you’re a café owner looking to stir up your game, a home barista with a passion for the perfect pour, or an office wanting to keep your employees buzzing with joy (and productivity), Barista Equip’s got your back. They have everything you could ever want to serve up the crème de la crème coffee faster than you can say “double shot, extra foam.”
Existing café owners and new operators alike can send their competitors into a state of despesso by tapping into Barista Equip’s latest café workflow systems, with commercial machines from industry giants like Slayer, Gaggia, and Nuova Simonelli. And if you’re a business owner looking to make your workplace the envy of every other office in town, check out the latest automated coffee systems from Eversys, Necta, and Saeco.
For the home baristas who take their morning brew as seriously as a Swiftie takes their friendship bracelets, Barista Equip offers a range of high-end home coffee machines from esteemed brands like Bellezza, ECM, and Victoria Arduino. Say goodbye to your old pod banger, and hello to café-quality espresso right in your very own kitchen.
Barista Equip isn’t just about machines though, they’re the full caffeine kit and caboodle. Also stocking the latest brewing tools, from PUQ Press (the world’s first and best precision coffee tamper) to Perfect Moose equipment for that smooth, easy microfoam, everything you could ever long (black) for is here.
If you’re in search of the ultimate consistency, check out their FLOW coffee telemetry subscriptions allowing you to measure flow with NASA like precision. Plus, they offer a selection of specialty coffee to try and buy, ensuring you’ve got the best beans in the biz to go with your top-tier equipment.
Founded by Brett Bolwell in 2013, Barista Equip Australia has been brewing success from day one. Bolwell’s passion for the coffee industry paved the way for this innovative company, which continues to make waves with its blend of automated and manual solutions for today’s modern barista. Always on the lookout to improve the lives of coffee lovers, Barista Equip works closely with coffee franchises that are already reaping the benefits of their cutting-edge technology.
And here’s the real perk: they’re offering a coffee on the house for all new visitors from the 18th – 25th July. Yes people, we just dropped those two magical words; FREE COFFEE! Barista Equip, where have you bean all our lives?!?!
Trust us – don’t latte this chance slip away. Espresso yourself with Barista Equip, the one-stop shop for all your caffeinated desires helping everyone get the very best from their brew.
Where: 314 Burleigh Connection Road, Burleigh Heads
When: 8am – 5pm Monday to Friday
Website: https://baristaequip.com.au/
Instagram: @baristaequipaustralia
Words by Bianca Trathen
STORY SPONSORED BY BARISTA EQUIP AUSTRALIA
Scoring ourselves a real estate bargain may at times feel like a ship that has well and truly sailed, but that need not be the case. Did you know that getting your hands on a good buyer’s agent can be a #gamechanger when it comes to adding significant value for any buyer irrespective of whether you’re on the hunt for your first abode or an investor looking to grow your portfolio?
To get the low down on just what invaluable perks a buyer’s agent can offer, we chatted with two names in the know, Sharon & Douglas Vincent of Hunters Buyers Agents. With thousands of property negotiations and 30+ years expertise under their belts, they’re as equally placed to walk us through the extensive list of advantages as they are to handle all your property browsing, buying and bidding needs.
And as it turns out, there’s a whole lot more to the picture than those glimpses that bulk Home Hunters binge sessions would have us believe (y’know, the one where Cathy and Bob are looking for their dream 11 bed beach house for precisely 30k #tellhimhesdreamin’).
Here are 5 reasons buyer’s agents can be a game changer in all your property pursuits:
They’re in your corner
Just as the real estate agent represents the seller, a buyer’s agent works in reverse – representing you as the buyer and your best interests when you’re on the hunt for your sweet new digs.
Guidance in ensuring your investment is safe as… houses
It’s not (just) about landing that dream kitchen, a buyer’s agent can help you consider all important factors like strategies, local areas, positioning, zoning, capital growth, sub division, depreciation… and yep, anyone else suddenly feeling very out of their depth?
Ultimately, they’ll help you understand the pros and cons of a purchase, and avoid costly implications by ensuring it aligns with your goals from the outset.
Tap into invaluable knowledge and experience
Unless you’re one of those high rollers we see snapping up apartments left, right and centre on The Block come auction day, most people haven’t had a lot of experience in the world of property wheeling and dealing. Buyers agents understand the ins and outs of the biz and, armed with years of experience in negotiation up their sleeves, they can land you the best possible outcome.
Most of us are no strangers to calling in the pros when we’re out of our league – lawyer, financial advisor –we wouldn’t be investing a substantial amount in the stock market without getting advice from a stockbroker. So when you think about it, the same applies to real estate. It’s low-key unhinged, winging it with what’s potentially the most cash we’ll ever splash.
Exclusive listings
A buyer’s agent has the inside intel that scores you access to exclusive off-market properties, giving buyers a head start in finding the perfect property. These hidden gems fly under the radar of the usual avenues available to us mere mortals, often offering unique features, better pricing, or less competition #score
They know ins and outs of the process
Finding ‘The One’ is only just the beginning, then suddenly it’s paperwork out the wazoo with property inspections and due diligence and legal matters to be navigated… phew, our heads are already spinning at the thought. Like your personal tour guide to step you through the complexities (read: stress) of the real estate process, a buyer’s agent helps ensure smooth transaction all round, often saving thousands of dollars. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us.
To find out more, head here.
Words by Kellie Leader.
STORY SPONSORED BY HUNTERS BUYERS AGENTS
The GC has been dipping its toes in all kinds of fancy recently, with more bougee bars, buildings and bites than you can poke a magnum of Dom Perignon at. But right when you think we can’t possibly level up the grandeur any further, we do…quite literally in fact.
Ladies and gentleman, get ready to put your best designer footwear-clad hoof forward in 2025 when multi-billion-dollar developer GURNERTM and Marriott International launch Australia’s very first St Regis Hotel! But we’re not done yet because this iconic luxury hotel will form part of GURNERTM’s $1.7 billion dollar La Pelago project and YES PEOPLE WE SAID BILLION. With a B.
Ear-marked for our beautiful Budds Beach, this landmark development (and joint venture with investment house Wingate) means nothing but decadence and dollar bills ya’ll, and this is definitely something we can get behind. In addition to the lavish St Regis hotel, La Pelago will feature 12,000 square meters of A-lister lifestyle amenities including luxury residential residences, and our wellness coach tells us that if we visualize an outcome… #MovingHouseParty2025 #WeCanDream.
The premier lifestyle resort and destination will also boast 5,500 square meters of international hospitality and retail, all in a lush, private landscaped setting which will be all kinds of frothed over by the Insta set #LetMeTakeThreeHundredSelfies.
The prestigious St Regis which side note, should totally be its tagline, will be frequented by celebs, high-rollers, and well-heeled folk with triple-barreled surnames, but also us mere mortals (start saving now people). Featuring approximately 185 guest rooms and suites that offer sweeping ocean and hinterland views, the design will celebrate timeless glamour, but with just the right amount of contemporary sophistication.
An expansive porte cochere is planned, and for those of us who don’t speak fancy, this is a super swish way of saying grand entrance. Providing a glamorous sense of arrival, by golly we’ll be getting our VIP jollies here, and geez Louise our rhyme game is lit today. Plus guests will be privy to the brand’s signature Butler Service, conjuring up images of Niles from the Nanny and Alfred from Batman, only way more posh.
There are whispers of a specialty restaurant, a world class sky bar, a pool bar, a signature St. Regis bar and omg it’s one really big bougee bar and we just fainted!! Also potentially in the pipeline is an exquisite lounge, spa, and luxurious penthouse collection #ded. Plus, it’s rumored that the design plans have called for all the rooms and hotel amenities, including the bar and restaurant, to sit well above any of the other towers in the project. This would make them 50% taller than any other surrounding tower and we just fainted again, partly because we’re scared of heights, but mainly coz sunset drinks will be in said sunset #PowerMove.
In the interest of providing some fodder for your next dinner party goss sesh, St. Regis is actually Marriott International’s leading luxury hotel brand with over 56 hotels and resorts around the globe, the very first opening in New York in 1904. GURNER naturally deemed the esteemed brand the perfect fit for La Pelago, and srsly we’re launching a rhyme generator app stat.
A major coup for the Gold Coast, this is an epic win both from a national and international tourism perspective, and for us local folk. We can’t wait to watch this bespoke development come to fruition, as this calibre of project and the GC are like J-Lo and Ben Affleck. Meant to be.
Where: Budds Beach, 108 Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise
When: 2027
Words by Bianca Trathen.
