A proper pub, still doing it properly.
Real ale, a kitchen that closes when it says it will, and a fire that’s been lit every winter night for two hundred years.
Licensed in 1886, and the fire has never gone out.
The Thistlewood has been a pub for well over a century, on the same plot next to the church, through several landlords and at least one rebuild after a chimney fire in the 1920s. The fireplace itself survived that fire and has been lit every winter night since anyone currently working here can remember.
None of that is a gimmick. It’s just what happens when a building stays a pub for well over a century. The beams are original, the cellar is the original cellar, and the kitchen closing on time is a rule that predates the current staff by decades.
Three things, unchanged for decades.
This is a pub first. Everything else is built around that.
Food
A proper kitchen menu, lunch and dinner, using suppliers within South-East Queensland.
Drink
Six rotating cask ales, plus the usual, poured by people who know the difference.
Rooms
Four rooms upstairs, for anyone who has had one too many to drive home.
What happens next
Book a table
Especially for Friday and Saturday nights, and Sunday lunch.
Or just turn up
The bar area is always walk-in — no booking needed for a drink.
Stay the night
Rooms book separately, and fill fast on race weekends.
A hundred and forty years, same building.
Licensed since 1886, and the fireplace has never gone out for a whole winter.
“Found this by chance on a drive through the Scenic Rim and now plan the route to pass through every year for the Sunday roast.”
Noel K., BOONAH