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Entries Tagged as 'The Venue'

The Moreland Hotel, Coburg

The Moreland has been a staple punting venue for a few years now.  It has, in many ways provided a benchmark against which other inner suburban pub tabs can be measured.
On a Saturday afternoon, the streets around it can double as the cab rank for Rod Laver Arena after a Fleetwood Mac gig.  It serves […]

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Great Ocean Road Hotel, Apollo Bay

A splinter Mug crew made the trip down the coast this weekend, deciding there was no better way to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon than inside the only local pub tab…
The layout quarantined the hard-core local punters - mostly ruddy, bearded seafolk - to an unrenovated space out back, albeit amply equipped with requisite betting […]

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The Royal Oak Hotel

The Mug and DJ visited the Royal Oak Hotel, North Fitzroy today, for our first outing as the MugPunter team.
The Oak is a great pub tab venue. It is 2 small, connected rooms with a central bar that offers 270 degree service access. Screens are plentiful and can be viewed from any position […]

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The Mug at the Royal Oak

The Mug goes punting today at the Royal Oak Hotel in North Fitzroy.  Feel free to stop by for a beer and some free advice

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Assessing a Venue

The Mug is on a quest - to find the quintessential PubTab. There are many defining criteria of this assessment, but I’ve distilled them into a few themes.

Tracky dacks - the lower hanging the better, preferably with holes, faded black the colour of the day. No doubt as more venues are assessed […]

Categories: The Venue