Bar Review
Breakfast Creek Hotel By Clayton Coughlan
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he Breakfast Creek Hotel or Brekky Creek as its know to the locals is arguably the most famous watering hole in Queensland and possibly Australia for over 120 years. The Breakfast Creek Hotel even featured in the opening line of the Midnight Oils hit song “Dreamworld� The French Renaissance style hotel was built in 1889 by former Lord Mayor of Brisbane, William MacNaughton Galloway. Legend and rumour have it that to this day, that William haunts the hotel as he fell to his death after attempting to jump balconies after being locking in a hotel room upstairs while drunk one night, around 5 years after the hotel opened. In 1900, the hotel was sold to the Brisbane brewery that was known as Perkins & Co, known today as Castlemaine Perkins who remained the owners but subleased the running of the pub for over 80 years. Castlemaine Perkins ownership explains the enormous XXXX beer sign still sits proudly atop of the heritage-listed building today. The pub has seen a few renovations and additions over the years, but none have detracted from the grand www.paintersdomain.com.au 37
