If you’re visiting the Southern Highlands with family, friends & the pooch, why not head to a gorgeous Highlands beer garden for an al fresco get together:
🍕 Bundanoon Hotel is definitely a favourite beer garden for families with pooches & the local Bundanoon mini donkeys have been known to occasionally pop in too – this is a true country pub. With shaded tables, the beer garden here takes on a garden party feel in summer when the pool in the background really comes into play! Great bistro food, wood fired pizzas on Tuesday nights, wine & beer plus the cocktail shaker is popular in the Brigadoon Bar.
🚜 Sutton Forest Inn has a fabulous beer garden & playground for the kids & furpals with an old tractor to explore, great bistro food & the gorgeous green paddocks of Sutton Forest to gaze out upon. Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week. We also love the colourful & striking container art by talented Highlands local Yvette Tziallis which sits in amongst the tables too.
🐕 Briar’s Inn is an ever popular recently restored historic Burradoo pub, established in 1834. Lots of great outdoor seating options if you have the pooch in tow, plus an outdoor big screen, fenced playground, tin shed and teepee for the kids. Giant chess board on the front lawn too. Steak & the famous potato bake, and woodfired pizzas on the weekends at the Briars are hard to beat!
🏫 Surveyor General Inn oozes history, being the oldest continuously licensed Inn in Australia – if the sandstone walls could talk! There’s a sunny beer garden or dine under the old verandah with the furpal at foot. Great food offerings from Bistro 1834, many local cool climate wines on offer too. One of Australia’s classic pubs and all within cooee of the historic village of Berrima, if you’re up for an explore.
🧀 Burrawang Village Hotel beer garden is hard to beat as a destination for a Highlands drive & pub lunch, sitting in amongst the historic village & beautifully lush bumpy green hills. Pub classics to choose from on the menu throughout the week for lunch and dinner and the much loved roast is great drawcard for visitors and locals each Sunday. The pooch will appreciate an explore of Burrawang Village afterwards too.