Anyone actually confirmed this yet? Responding to market demands is what is leading to the homgenisation of Sydney pubs. Its unfortunate but pubs are there to make money and so we will continue to have pokie funded renovations to pubs that steal all the pubs charm. Having said that, the service at the HPH has been sh*t and there is no excuse for that, I waited at the bar once for about 5 minutes before someone even appeard behind the bar.
In regards to the bistro, I met the guy that was running the bistro a couple of months ago and he gave me & my mates a free greek salad each which bought a fair bit of goodwill from us. Dont know if he has since gone but he seemed quite switched on and I had encouraged him to advertise in the base rag and offer jets supporters a discount.