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 cookieshttp://www.ubeaut.biz/toothless.gif http://www.ubeaut.biz/fly2.gif.

[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!":p

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!":p



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. :o

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.:D

[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:D

[jmk89]

Settlers Arms it is for me - good beer, good outside areas, good food, good surrounds, good trip to get there. Put the roof of the old Peugeot (1970 504 cabriolet) down and drive there for Sunday lunch. A couple of cleansing Ales and then potter gently back home. Perfect.
Jeremy (bugger.... I am still in the office)

[silentC]

Some of the pubs I used to like to visit in town (Sydney):

The Lord Nelson in The Rocks (Three Sheets and Nelson's Blood)
The Australian in The Rocks (great pizza)
The Wynyard Hotel on Clarence Street (pint of Old Speckled Hen thanks, innkeeper)
Henry 9th Bar in the Hilton (dark and dingy like a good old English pub)

Usually try to visit the James Squire Tavern at Darling Harbour when in town. It wasn't there when I lived in Sydney.

[Andy Mac]

That's a hard question, but trying to think of pubs that really stood out!
I once visited a little tavern in the hills above Adelaide, quaint place, but a real favourite with Sunday drivers. The locals were friendly... so friendly in fact one gave me a try of some moonshine, and consequently I can't remember the name of the pub!
Eimeo hotel north of Mackay was a stunning place, with a beer garden perched on a cliff looking over the sea. Is it still there?
The Straddie hotel at Point Lookout on Nth Stradbroke Island will always be a favourite. Beautiful views, both inside and out!;)
Some of the pubs around the Rocks in Sydney have great atmosphere, but can't think of specific names.
If "favourite" equals the one visited most, well it has to be the Farmers Arms here at Cabarlah!! Only a couple of hundred metres from my back door, it gets my vote!:p The oldest continual licence in Qld, with some charming old features, and then there's the architecture:D....oh, and they get my brew without being asked.

CHEEERS!

[craigb]

The one I'm in. ;) :)

[AlexS]

Used to enjoy the Noojee (Vic) pub years ago when we stayed there with work. Pour your own beer, put your own money in the till, cook your own breakfast, write your own receipt for travel expenses....;)

[Auld Bassoon]

Mark's initial post makes that pub sound pretty close to Nirvana.

For a city pub, Pug Mahone in Hardware Lane in Melbourne is pretty good.

Or then there's the pub with "Cougar Girl" in it :D :D :D

BTW, how many here know just what "Pug Mahone" means? :D

[silkwood]

Country pubs seem to be gaining a majority. Not surprising, given it bloody nice to come across a cold beer after a long drive! It probably more the atmosphere, though, more characters and less w#nkers!

Another common thread is the surroundings or the view, with water (either outside or in close proximity) being desirable (not in the beer or wine, though!). This fits with reports when I studied Recreation Management- we tend to like places with or near water to relax or enjoy ourselves. Maybe I should put a pond in the shed.:eek:

Cheers,

Mark

[Auld Bassoon]

Maybe I should put a pond in the shed.:eek:

Mark

I did - it's called a Lee Valley Stone Pond :D :D :D :D

[silkwood]

I did - it's called a Lee Valley Stone Pond :D :D :D :D

:p :p :p :D

[Clinton1]

the pub in El Arish, Far North Qld.
nothing flash, just a relaxed place with good locals, great publican, good pies, interesting stuff on the walls. Nice old, airy building.
A stuffed bushpigs head on the wall - the local copper donated his hat for it to wear - with a plaque reading "Russ Hinze - Minister for Everything".
Lots of photo's of fishing, hunting, farming, 4wd'ing boasts.
A tiny community, so everyone goes there on a Friday night. The butcher was getting his counter'ies there, so the steak was the best!
Boules under the palm trees out the back from the cane cutting days. If you got too pissy to leave you could crash on the floor and they'd chuck a sheet at you, invite you to brekkie in the morning as well.

Haven't been back since 95. :(

[maglite]

The Orient - Rocks in Sydney
The Breakfast Creek - Brissy
The Normanby - Brissy
The Paddington - Brissy ( all the lookers from brissy uni used to drink there)
The Stafford Arms - Stafford Brisbane
The Ace of Clubs(I think) Rockhampton Qld
The Premier Hotel - Collie WA

[silkwood]

Here's the link for Blue Duck Inn. Very popular for (motor)bike runs, great winding road from Omeo. As it says: fabulous trout fishing (catch & release appreciated).For you bait fisherpeople "there's no fish, its a lousy place and it always rains!".:rolleyes:

http://www.blueduckinn.com.au/

How about adding a few notes to your posts, rather than just naming your pub?

Cheers,

[Iain]

BTW, how many here know just what "Pug Mahone" means? :D
You too:rolleyes:
There are a couple of pubs in Melbourne that are memorable:
#1. The Champion in Fitzroy, and if I ever find the taxi driver that took us there I will slowly castrate him, without the aid of any anaesthetic.

#2. The Rob Roy, diagonally opposite the former, similar ambience, revolting and pugnacious.

#3. Jimmy Watsons in Carlton, a group of us meet there for lunch once a month in one of the function rooms upstairs, I even have my own name plaque:)
Such notoriety;)

[womble]

the Barron Valley in Atherton, Art deco style pub with most of the original fittings left and good food too

Peeramon pub, lost most of its roof with cyclone larry tho :(

[Wood Borer]

You missed the Builders Arms down Gertrude St Iain. In the 80's she was always rocking and rolling with crims and crime, the odd murder in the bar etc. I fixed the Red Phone there a few times when it was still intact, the other times we replaced it.

I believe it is a trendy pub these days.

[silkwood]

"BTW, how many here know just what "Pug Mahone" means? "

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!!!

Don't post again 'till you tell us what it means!

(please:o )

Cheers,

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Pug Mahone?

Just another anglicised bastardisation of God's own language. As such, it don't mean nothin'. If ya think it does, ye can pog ma thoin.

:D

[Iain]

Display some affection to my mule or donkey:rolleyes:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pogue+mahone

[Auld Bassoon]

"BTW, how many here know just what "Pug Mahone" means? "

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!!!

Don't post again 'till you tell us what it means!

(please:o )

Cheers,

OK. This is from an Irish mate, so blame him if this is wrong:p , but I'm led to believe that "Pug Mahone" is Gaelic for "Kiss my #####" :eek: :D :D :D

Edit: Blast and darn it! Iain beat me to it.

[journeyman Mick]

Skew,
I thought it was spelled "pogue ma thoin"? "That" band changed their name to "The Pogues" after the meaning of the original name was revealed (and the BBC refused to play their stuff).

Mick