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The database includes a charming tavern, a slick-looking pub and a spot serving immoderate of the best-value wagyu successful town.
Emma Breheny and Tomas Telegramma
May 1, 2024
God bless the play specials committee astatine the pub. There for you nary substance what, you tin take your ain escapade depending connected whether you’re a parma devotee this week oregon a burger aficionado the next. But steak nighttime is wherever the existent worth lies, particularly close present erstwhile the terms of, well, everything is going up. Not if you play it smart, though.
WEST
Mona Castle Hotel, Seddon
Wednesday, $23
Seddon wouldn’t beryllium the aforesaid without this 1874-built watering hole, which was reborn successful 2022. There’s plentifulness for locals to love: the dimmies, the kids’ frog successful the pond, the Bulldogs pride. And the hump-day steak special. The squad is grilling porterhouses, serving them with chips, crockery and silky bearnaise – and charging conscionable $23 a plate.
45-53 Austin Street, Seddon, monacastlehotel.com
Victoria Hotel, Footscray
Monday, $25
While the Vic precocious changed hands – present helmed by restaurateur Denis Lucey (Luxsmith, Bottega, Yardbird) – the bosom of the longstanding pub has stayed much oregon little the same. There’s conscionable a small much polish successful the work and the atmosphere. Monday is inactive steak nighttime and present it involves a 250-gram porterhouse with chips, crockery and an accompanying cookware of red-wine gravy. From 5.30pm.
43 Victoria Street, Footscray, victoriahotelfootscray.com
Plough Hotel, Footscray
Tuesday, $25
A favourite among everyone from families to housemates, The Plough takes its grub seriously. On steak night, the chopped of prime is porterhouse; it comes with chips, salad, and herb butter. There are plentifulness of beer-friendly snacks specified arsenic cheesy croquettes with aioli – and spicy buffalo wings – to support pre-dinner hunger pangs astatine bay.
333 Barkly Street, Footscray, ploughhotel.com.au
Junction Hotel, Newport
Wednesday, $25
Each Wednesday – from luncheon done meal – punters are successful for a antithetic chopped of Great Southern grass-fed beef, with porterhouse a fashionable steak of choice. It comes with chips, a leafy salad, positive capsicum oregon red-wine sauce, and determination are $6 glasses of location vino oregon pots of Newport Draught available.
15 Hall Street, Newport, junctionnewport.com.au
Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale
Tuesday, $23
Fancy a inexpensive Tuesday? Step disconnected the tram and into this north-west gem (that the country has truly gotten around) for the $23 steak special. It’s a sirloin with fries, salad, and your prime of sauce. For 3 bucks more, the steak sanger is conscionable arsenic crowd-pleasing, souped up with caramelised onion. And to sweeten the wallet-friendly woody adjacent further, pots are $4.50 from 4pm to 6pm.
447 Mount Alexander Road, Ascot Vale, ascotvalehotel.com.au
SOUTH
Mount Erica Hotel, Prahran
Tuesday, $24
The crowds talk for themselves astatine this sprawling country pub connected the southbound side. On Tuesdays, you tin get among it – and prevention immoderate currency – with a astir half-price peculiar connected its sirloin steak, served with bearnaise condiment and chips. There’s a coagulated line-up of tinnies, including gluten-free brews by Two Bays, positive each weeknight betwixt 4pm and 6pm, fractional a twelve oysters and a solid of sparkling are yours for $22.
420 High Street, Prahran, mountericahotel.com.au
Railway Hotel, South Melbourne
Wednesday, $25
Pool tables, a fireplace, a brew plot and Sunday roasts: the Railway is simply a due pub. And connected Wednesdays, it’s crammed with those successful the know, who are ordering 250-gram porterhouse. It’s served with chips, salad, and your prime of sauce, but we reckon you tin prevention country for the cheesy ail cob loaf.
280 Ferrars Street, South Melbourne, railwaypub.com.au
Local Taphouse, St Kilda East
Wednesday, $24
Closer to a charming tavern than a pub, this mahogany-toned country has pulling powerfulness connected immoderate nighttime of the week. But connected Wednesdays, erstwhile the room is grilling $24 steaks, The Local is magnetic. The chopped changes weekly, but the high-quality beef sourced by Gamekeepers stays the same. A caller illustration includes Queensland flank with roast spuds, and garlic-and-herb butter. Throw successful $8 Stomping Ground pints and $8 location wines betwixt 4pm and 6pm – and a roaring fireplace – and telephone it paradise.
184 Carlisle Street, St Kilda East, thelocal.com.au
Flying Duck Hotel, Prahran
Monday, $25
Start your week close by venturing into the backstreets of Prahran to find the Flying Duck. The lure? A high-quality grass-fed chopped of beef sourced successful Victoria, cooked implicit the wood occurrence and served with a heap of chips and salad. If you’ve got kids, Duck Daycare means they devour for escaped from 4pm to 6pm connected weekdays.
67 Bendigo Street, Prahran, flyingduckhotel.com.au
Half Moon, Brighton
Wednesday, $25
From midday each Wednesday, your steak is efficaciously 50 per cent disconnected astatine this large Brighton boozer that’s close connected the bid line. For $25, you get a 250-gram chopped of Cape Grim porterhouse alongside a watercress-and-shallot crockery and a fistful of blistery chips. Walk-ins are invited successful the barroom area, oregon you tin publication a array successful the main eating room.
120 Church Street, Brighton, halfmoon.com.au
EAST
Union House, Richmond
Wednesday, $24
Heading to Swan Street for meal isn’t ever a budget-friendly affair. But if you instrumentality to a midweek sojourn to this slick-looking pub, you tin easy get retired of determination with alteration from a $50. Steak nighttime involves 250 grams of porterhouse, positive chips, crockery and capsicum sauce, portion successful your solid mightiness beryllium vino from Unico Zelo oregon Pool Wines, oregon a Bodriggy beer.
270 Swan Street, Richmond, unionhouse.com.au
Auburn Hotel, Hawthorn East
Thursday, $25
This precocious refurbished pub tin present amended service adjacent much Hawthorn locals, having earnestly expanded its footprint connected Auburn Road. And Thursdays are for the carnivores. Not lone is it steak nighttime – wherever $25 volition get you a 250-gram rump with red-wine jus, skin-on fries and location crockery – there’s besides a nutrient raffle, with tickets from $5 and each proceeds going to the Koala Kids Foundation.
85 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East, theauburnhotel.com.au
The Skinny Dog, Kew
Tuesday, $23-$29
This indispensable beryllium 1 of the fewer steak nights astir municipality wherever you’re successful control. Downstairs astatine the Dog, 3 antithetic steaks are offered astatine a discount, from the $23 porterhouse oregon $25 rump to the $29 chef’s cut, which changes weekly. All 3 travel with a prime of crockery oregon vegetables, chips oregon roast potatoes. Reliable, humble and each astir its locals, is The Skinny Dog the platonic perfect of a pub?
155 High Street, Kew, skinnydoghotel.com.au
Orrong Hotel, Armadale
Thursday, $25
This 150-year-old boozer was reborn acknowledgment to Matt Vero and Scott Connolly, who betwixt them ain pubs including the Marquis of Lorne. They recognize the value of a large steak nighttime and anchor The Orrong’s astir a 250-gram rump cap. The play nutrient raffle is held connected the aforesaid night.
709 High Street, Armadale, orronghotel.com
NORTH
Naughtons Hotel, Parkville
Wednesday, $25
Many things marque Naughtons a worthy reprieve from the franticness of Royal Parade: the fancy murphy cakes, the appreciation for section producers, the astute upstairs accommodation. But steak nighttime is 1 of the biggest drawcards. Each Wednesday, find peculiar cuts of Bass Strait beef (usually a $25 rump and thing a small much premium) alongside magnums of fancy vino, reasonably priced by the glass.
43 Royal Parade, Parkville, naughtonshotel.com.au
Bonny, Fitzroy
Wednesday & Sunday, $30
At Brunswick Street barroom Bonny – helmed by ex-Cumulus Inc caput cook James Cornwall – you’ll find immoderate of the best-value wagyu successful Melbourne, 2 nights a week. On Wednesdays and Sundays, $30 gets you topnotch Sher topside wagyu slow-roasted implicit charcoal, with hand-cut fries and Ramarro Farm leaves. The lone catch? You person to bargain a portion (non-alc are included) to assertion the offer. But a bargain’s a bargain.
177 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, bonnybar.com.au
Town Hall Hotel, Fitzroy
Wednesday, $25
You tin person your steak and devour it excessively astatine this well-known nutrient destination. Even connected steak night, the beef is cooked implicit reddish gum for that beauteous char-grilled finish. Served successful the classical steak frites style, with tiny copper pots of bearnaise oregon capsicum sauce, and a crunchy slaw, this is 1 classy bargain.
166 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, fitzroytownhallhotel.com.au
The Woodlands Hotel, Coburg
Thursday, $25
Run by the aforesaid radical arsenic The Rainbow successful Fitzroy, connected Thursday nights this tremendous aged pub offers much than conscionable quirky decor. For $25 you tin beryllium down to a 250-gram porterhouse with either chips and crockery oregon mashed potatoes and sauteed broccoli. Several sauces are connected offer, from gravy to salsa verde, truthful take your ain adventure.
84-88 Sydney Road, Coburg, thewoodlands.com.au
Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Thursday, $23
This High Street staple – from the unit down Richmond’s Corner Hotel – has much than conscionable an fantabulous live-music programme going for it. Namely: delicious play specials. A 250-gram porterhouse comes cooked to your liking alongside chips, coleslaw, and 1 of 3 sauces (Cafe de Paris butter, affluent mushroom oregon creamy pepper) each Thursday.
301 High Street, Northcote, northcotesocialclub.com
Terminus, Fitzroy North
Tuesday, $22
Bargains tin inactive beryllium had adjacent successful this postcode: the Termy’s porterhouse, chips and crockery for $22 is proof. Of course, if you privation thing a small fancier, you tin besides sneak retired the backmost to Cinder, the high-flying steakhouse attached to the pub, wherever a Josper grill and dry-ageing furniture volition adhd a fewer digits to your bill, and a grin to your dial.
492 Queens Parade, Fitzroy North, terminus.com.au
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