JULY 2025 | NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES
Welcome to Newcastle Art Gallery
Newcastle Art Gallery is looking for an F&B partner who has demonstrated capability delivering modern food & beverage, with benchmark coffee and a customer-centric service experience. This is a rare chance to bring your food and hospitality concept to life in a high-profile corner tenancy and partner with Newcastle Art Gallery, creating a distinctive destination for locals and visitors.
Staged re-opening from September 2025 with an annual forecast of 150,000 visitors, the Newcastle Art Gallery major expansion includes 1600m2 of additional Gallery space, gift shop, event spaces, multi-purpose education space, conservation facilities and a prominent F&B tenancy corner of Darby & Laman streets, overlooking Newcastle Civic park.
216sqm tenancy (157sqm indoor and 59sqm covered terrace)
Collaborative re-design of interior from the initial plan
Flexible and favourable co-funded fit-out support
Ability to trade beyond Gallery hours
Opportunity for function & event catering
Flexible rental model
The F&B Vision
The F&B offer will be modern, approachable & appealing – a balance of familiar favourites with signature menu items that are creative and tap into the Newcastle Art Gallery experience. The food and service will cater to the diverse needs of local customers and gallery visitors, from benchmark coffee, quick bites to relaxed causal dining, always delivering quality and value. Distinctive design and hospitality touch-points reflecting the character of Newcastle Art Gallery, creating a unique and memorable connection between food, art and people.
Scheduled opening: February 2026
This Expression of Interest Campaign is now closed.
Newcastle Art Gallery acknowledges with the deepest respect the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live. We recognise their continuing connection to land, water, culture and community, and pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and future. Newcastle Art Gallery is dedicated to honouring the culture and traditions of our local Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander communities through the visual arts.
