Spring Hill Hotel

Pretty good little pub the restaurant attached is great has good steaks and a cool beer garden just look for the cows out front and dont pretend to ride on them you will fall off,

You know the Spring Hill Hotel. It’s the place you pass on Leichardt Street that has the life size cow out the front of it. You’ve probably never gone in there before, and neither had I until recently.
It’s a surprisingly good pub. I’d vote their beer garden one of the best in Brisbane. ‘The Hollywood Gardens’ always inspires a desire in me to do dark deeds. It also happens to reminds me of Uma Thurman playing Poison Ivy in Batman. Who can say why I think these things?
The Sunday Rock and Roll Barbecues are the main reason to go to the Spring Hill Hotel. A bloke called Cowboy Bob started organising FREE Sunday arvo gigs (with FREE bbq) here a while ago, and it seems to have taken off. There’s a resident Sundee arvo crowd there these days that come for the song and steak. Bands start at 2:30pm.
Outside of this, the Spring Hill Hotel offers your general pub fare. It’s got Monday 2 4 1 lunch and dinner deals, it’s got a 300g steak as it’s headlining pub meal, and trivia on Thursdays.
It’s the best pub in the area by miles. It shits all over the Normanby, it’s way more fun that St Pauls around the corner, and you won’t get yourself into a tangle like you might at Sportie’s.

Hands down, the best chips and gravy I have ever eaten in a pub in the city. Weird fact I know… how hard could it be to cook up yummy chips and gravy. Well. there is a perfect recipe… the chips have to be crispy on the outside enough to outstand the gravy. Soft in the middle to absorb the gravy and the gravy has to be tasty and not watery so the chips don’t have a leg to stand on.
Here they have it pretty damn good. With little areas like ‘Hollywood Boulevard’ to sit in, the meals come out fresh and hot and the prices won’t hurt you. I used to come here with my work colleagues when I used to work in the city and we were never disappointed. Sure it looks a bit daggy… but the food, music and service are still one of the better ones.

I have never been here during the Spring Hill Hotel’s «busy periods» but what I can say is that I LOVE coming here for a Sunday afternoon. I am an overall fan of the outdoors leafy area and tacky interior, it adds to the charm of this conveniently placed inner city pub.
The great thing about this place is the location; right it the city, only 5 minutes walk from Central train station. The other cool thing is, once you walk down the leafy pathway, you forget that you are in the city, the trees block all of that out giving the place a more homely and relaxing feeling.
I have only come here on Sundays for their ‘Rock and Roll’ sessions. The bands that play here are local punk/​rock/​garage acts. Local acts is what the stage is designed for as it is not a large stage, nor is the audience standing area. You can’t beat the prices for drinks of this place either; all local beers on tap cost only $ 4 for a schooner– pretty good if you ask me.
I can not judge the Spring Hill Hotel during its busier periods but whenever I have been here, I have enjoyed myself. The pub is in such a great location, I really do not need a reason to not go on a lazy Sunday.

The only good thing about the Spring Hill Hotel is the huge meals they have for really good prices. It’s a pretty dodgy looking place with paint peeling off walls and terrible carpeting. The outdoor eating area is very green as though they have tried to class up the place with a lot of foliage. Unfortunately it hasn’t worked. They do have good food though and their chicken parmigiana is enormous. It’s a passable destination for a weekday lunch and a beer but I wouldn’t be taking anyone I wanted to impress.