Favourite Pub

[silkwood]

Reading Iain's post regarding South Australia (and it's comments on wine and food) got me to thinking about pubs. What's your favourite Australian pub & why? Maybe we'll find a common element.

Mine's the Blue Duck Inn, on the banks of the Cobungara river, near Omeo in Victoria. You can camp 100m from the pub in the National park campground or stay in one of the rooms at the pub. It is on a bend of the river with a bridge over it (beautiful location). You can wade up the river catching trout along the way, then hop out after passing under the bridege and walk 30m up the bank to grab a coldie (I've done it!). Good food, great environment, great fishing, decent wine and COLD BEER! Doesn't get any better, does it?

Cheers,

Mark

[Lignum]

My favourite pub is any pub that dosnt serve South Australian Beer:eek:

[martrix]

St Andrews Pub in Victoria.. Laid back vibe with a cool market across the road on Saturdays where you can get special cookies .

[silkwood]

My favourite pub is any pub that dosnt serve South Australian Beer:eek:

Was in Broome recently and purchased a sixpack of Coopers Ale. The guy at the desk asked if I hadn't just bought a sixpack of VB cans just half hour earlier. I explained the cans were for a fishing trip and I couldn't take bottles on board. He said (and I'm pretty close to an exact quote) "Jesus I'd be sad if I had to drink VB if I had Coopers in the fridge. And I'm from Bendigo!"

Cheers,

Mark

[Harry72]

Any pub thats sell's Jacks cheap!

[Mezaire]

My favourite pub is Glen Helen Gorge. It's in the NT, about 200km west of Alice.
I lived about an hours drive out past there at a place called Papunya for nearly a year. Papunya is a dry community and after a month out in the desert heat there was nothing like a cold beer across and down the beautiful gorge to the big cliffs with an ice cold beer.

[Lignum]

"Jesus I'd be sad if I had to drink VB if I had Coopers in the fridge. And I'm from Bendigo!"

Thats why he was excommunicated him from Victoria

[Mirboo]

The Newport Arms in NSW is pretty good. They have a great beer garden on the edge of the Pittwater. It is a great place to spend an afternoon.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Blampied, VIC. (Swiss Alps)

Lovely li'l pub, great people. I used to get my pay dropped off directly to 'em, from which they'd deduct my bar tab, pay my landlord, buy my groceries, and generally treated me as a member of the family. Many a counter-meal graced my lap there and oft the time was I "assisted" to my place just down the road.

Ahhh... the good ol' days, single and fancy free. [sigh]

I later learned that the then owner succumbed to cancer shortly after I left. God bless him, he was truly a good bloke and is sorely missed.

[Wood Borer]

Birdsville Pub

Great hospitality, cold beer, good meals, great customers, and they look after you when you are in trouble.

Mungerannie Pub

Good meals and good advice and nice cold beer good publican although I heard a rumour it is on the market.

William Creek Pub

Good meals and good advice and nice cold beer

[Bluegum]

I stopped of at the blue heeler back in 92 while on convoy back from the top end. Coudn't drink the beer but the pies were great. The crie down in Warwicks not to bad either. Its faomous for the 3 bullet bar. Apparently at the end of WW2 thiis young digger came rushing rifle and all announcing the war was over and fired 3 shots from his 303 into the air and straight through the ceiling of the bar. The bullet holes were never patched over and are still there for all to see.

[silentC]

There is no such thing as a bad pub

[Termite]

My loungeroom, but the barmaid's a bitch.

[Felder]

Settler's Arms at St Albans, NSW.

Very scenic drive gets you there including crossing the river by ferry at Wiseman's Ferry. The pub itself dates back to 1840's and is a stone's throw from the river.

I was a bit peeved last time I went there and saw pokies, though.

[goat]

great lake hotel tassie, great beer, fantastic meals ,and bloody great big open fires to warm ya self by after a day of chasing trout