Sometimes eating out and the costs that come with it can be a stressful thing, when they really shouldn’t be. At the sports bar at the Grovedale Hotel you needn’t worry. With affordable dishes that don’t skimp on quality, and 85 inch HD TVs to watch the footy, dining at this venue is the best place for a much-needed break from home.
While there’s no designated nights to get your steak or Parmi on, there are regular meal specials to give you bang for your buck. As manager Joel Taylor states, each meal is made fresh in the kitchen with nothing coming from a packet. The menu features American style sandwiches and burgers, Asian stir-frys and rice dishes, and the pub classics no sports bar would be seen without.
When it comes to the best dish on the menu, Joel can’t go by the 12-hour slow cooked beef brisket sandwich. The brisket is slow cooked overnight with some secret ingredients and come morning time is sliced up ready to go. Each slice is coated in the Grovedale’s own hickory BBQ sauce and stuffed into a brioche bun topped with tangy sweet onion pickle relish. What more could you want while taking in the game on the mammoth sized TVs?
Aside from being one of the meccas in Geelong for dedicated sports fans, the Grovedale Hotel is just an impressive venue all-round. Adding to their huge HDTV wall, the venue plans to fit out a brand new garden bar completed just in time to catch the spring sunshine. Made from recycled materials and with a retractable roof system, the new spot will give customers a totally new vibe to escape to.
If there’s anything that Joel can assure us of, it’s the high quality delivered in each dish and without the exclusive price tag. “The sports bar at the Grovey offers top quality food at value prices! Our prices are mostly under $20 and some of the best bar meals in town,” Joel says.
236 Surfcoast Hwy, Grovedale / Ph: 03 5243 2814
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