St Andrews Hotel

I hastened to get changed from my shorts into jeans and heels in the carpark prior to going in for a Saturday night dinner. Shouldn’t really have bothered as track suit clad clients sat sprawled, greeting our city getup with lazy contempt. Ok so it’s inclusive. The night didn’t start well when I inquired about the chardonnay ‘oakiness’. ‘Dunno’ came the reply ‘comes in a bottle’. Right, who looked the fool?
But the food is tasty, the steak was nice enough and there are lots of options. All in all it’s friendly, even for us city snobby folk.
The live band enters — we exit.

St Andrews Hotel is a great pub which caters particularly well for the crowd attending St Andrews Market — a hippy market set in lovely bush settings every Saturday morning. The market itself is great fun and absolutely worth visiting. When the market closes down at around 2pm, the stall holders and customers alike tend to go over to the pub, which has live acoustic music and is very popular.
The pub caters for all sorts of different people:
Bikies tend to hang out at the front tables outside the pub
Families tend to be inside the pub eating at the eating areas
Hippies tend to be out the back on the back beer garden
Local country folk tend to be a bit of everywhere
Pool players tend to be at the pool table
What I really love about this pub is that despite the fact that all of these people are so different, they all seem to get along really really well. In the 15 years Ive been going to St Andrews pub, NOT ONCE have I ever seen a fight there! Thats a seriously impressive statistic for a pub anywhere!
The pub is very child friendly and is run by relaxed people.
Although Ive been to the pub more times than I can remember on Saturdays, Ive only been to it on other days perhaps 2 or 3 times — but it still seems nice — although it is a hell of a lot quieter then — to the point where it is almost empty in the afternoons! I can imagine it is pretty good on Sundays though.
Anyway, a great pub — and one that everyone should go to at least once — if only to admire the actual building itself — it is absolutely beautiful with sun beams coming through the windows, big wooden tables inside and out and a great leafy decking courtyard out the back!