Doncaster Hotel
855 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC 3108, Australia
Why you'll love Doncaster Hotel
- Offers versatile and intimate function spaces
- Offers mouth-watering menu and a large selection of ice cold beer on tap, and an impressive wine and spirits list.
- With complete AV facilities.
Situated in the hub of the suburb of Doncaster, and only 25 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD, you’ll find this local favourite. Affectionately known as “The Donny”, this establishment has been serving the community for over 150 years, and has become a go-to for a shared meal, casual drinks, live sports and group gatherings. We’re located a five minute drive from premier shopping precinct, Westfield Doncaster, a perfect location for you to experience the best of Melbourne’s north east. Dine in with family or friends at our bistro for classic pub fare and modern Australian dishes. There’s steaks to your liking, fresh salads, shared platters, seafood favourites and other chef specialties. You’ll also find our dedicated burger joint,
Doncaster Hotel Function Rooms
Bob's Bar
Bob's Bar can be tailored to suit your style of event, and is ideal for small groups or a private function. We have a large selection of ice cold beer on tap, and an impressive wine and spirits list. Choose either from our appetisers or mai...
The Donnie's Room
The newly renovated Donnie's Room is perfect for cocktail parties of up to 125 guests. Whether you are hosting a birthday, engagement party, or another milestone event, the room has everything you need for a successful event! FACILITIES: -P...
Reviews for Doncaster Hotel
Soniqbuoy
The Doncaster hotel is a local family pub style bistro restaurant. It caters for everyone - families, young and old. There are plenty of tables indoors and people seem to order and dine quickly. Large groups can be catered for easily. Meal choices are the common steaks, crumbed chicken schnitzels, fish and chips, pork ribs and pizza options. There are a few non standard items such as seafood paella. The meals are decent though don't expect anything gourmet and fancy. The kids menu includes nuggets and frog in the pond (chocolate frog in jelly). There is an ice cream display freezer that holds a selection of ice cream flavours from Peter's ice cream. Drinks are ordered at the bar. The usual wine, beer and soft drink options are there. There is ample parking at the rear of the building with the car park entrance from Victoria Street.
Jenny Chen
Great portion size and reasonable prices, especially if you're sharing within a group. There is also outdoor seating and an indoor kids playground. We had the Donnie Mix, the ribs and wings were all amazing.
Anne Preston
2 part review: We had lunch here on 29th December 2022. As I made the booking I was emailed a request for a review afterwards. I decided to email the hotel directly (sadly with no acknowledgement at all) and this is what I wrote: Hi Team, Rather than post a less than favourable review publicly, I thought I'd let you know how I found our visit. Parts of our experience were good, other parts were quite disappointing. The size of the meals were generous, both adult and kids meals. My partners side salad was delivered without dressing. Maybe that's how you serve them but it looked as though it had started to dry out a little. The kitchen staff did well getting our meals out at roughly the same time even though there were several orders from our table at the same time. The toilets were clean. What was disappointing was that at least 3 water glasses that we helped ourselves to weren't clean. I had to go back and ask for clean glasses as the rack hadn't been topped up. The house Sauv Blanc was not as cold as it could've been. I did go back to the bar and asked for a glass of ice. I was disappointed that the bar staff on several occasions were less than attentive when I was at the bar for service. I realise that some staff were assisting other customers and one staff member was making coffees, but the staff members who clearly weren't assisting anyone seemed oblivious to me standing waiting to be served (this happened more than once), to the point that one staff member who was making a drink for another customer was using her eyes/head to try to indicate to a fellow staff member that I was waiting to be served. No empty glasses were cleared from our table in the whole time we were seated. Once we had all finished our meals our plates remained on the table for close to an hour. There were very few customers left in the dining room during this time. Even when the children collected their ice creams they had to move their plates to have their dessert. This was the first time I'd been to your venue. It was recommended by my cousin as it is family friendly with the children able to enjoy the play centre. Further staff training would improve the whole experience. ****Dinner on 29th December 2023**** We had a group of 9 adults and 3 children and several people in our group ordered separately. Our main courses were delivered to our table reasonably quickly, but at no time during our visit were glasses, the wine bottle or plates removed by the wait staff. After about an hour of finishing our main courses we moved empty glasses, plates and cutlery to the empty table next to us. The bistro was not what I'd call busy, with about half the tables vacant. Wait staff delivered food to the table but went back to the kitchen empty handed. This same pattern was repeated for all customers that I could see. We ordered dessert and after some time my partner went to check on our order. He was advised the desserts would only be a few more minutes. The desserts served warm had been heated on the same plates that they were served on, so the ice cream was either half melted or partly melted and very soft when it was delivered to the table. This was really disappointing as the sticky date and chocolate brownie (to replace the creme brulee that was ordered, that we found was unavailable as the desserts were delivered to our table) could easily have been heated on a separate plate then placed on to a chilled or room temperature plate with the ice cream. It is really disappointing that the service has not improved in 12 months. Not sure if we'll be back.
Kathrin Edwards
We really enjoyed our dinner and get together at the Doncaster tonight. Jessica greeted us warmly when we arrived and Jayden’s customer service throughout the night was excellent. The food was delish. In particular the beef salad and paella looked and tasted great.
Betty Damianidis
Had the prawn pasta and it was delicious. Staff were wonderful.