Welcome To Thornbury
520 High St, Thornbury VIC 3071, Australia
Bar
•Why you'll love Welcome To Thornbury
- Offers welcoming and versatile spaces perfect for any events.
- With great food and drink menu selections and affordable event packages.
- Trees, greenery and bushes line the space with the zig zag bench seating in the middle offering a fun playground twist.
Welcome to Thornbury is hard to miss with its retro sign welcoming guests to their next function. The venue offers a progressive, festival vibe to any function held with us due to the diverse offerings. It is the second-largest beer garden and the only permanent food truck park in Melbourne, with different food trucks rotating on a daily basis. There'll also be a whole host of beers on tap, as well as craft beers and delicious cocktail jugs to share.
Upon entry, there is the Distiller, a fully-functional distillery, known for Grainshaker Vodka and Ned’s whiskey. Towards the back of the venue is our beautiful warehouse space ‘The Greenhouse’ – greenery hangs above with polished concrete floors, festoon lighting and wooden finishings. Our Good Times Arcade is the perfect place for the big kids with over 40 retro arcade games. Lastly is our main bar & beer garden with two bars and cover throughout to cater to Melbourne’s ever-changing weather!
Welcome To Thornbury Function Rooms
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Welcome to Thornbury is hard to miss with its retro sign welcoming guests to their next function. The venue offers a progressive, festival vibe to any function held with us due to the diverse offerings. Upon entry, a previous car showroom, ...
The Greenhouse
Step through the huge barn doors and into a completely different world of Welcome to Thornbury. A mix of modern Melbourne warehouse, and the soft timber features of a traditional space. Hanging greenery, festoon lighting and timber features...
The Deck
The Deck, located to the side of the venue provides an intimate feel to the space without losing the vibe of the venue. The semi-private space includes a retractable awning roof for coverage and heaters to keep you toasty warm in winter. Th...
The Courtyard
The courtyard is a semi-private space located in the heart of our fabulous outdoor beer garden. The space entails a mixture of cocktail style tables, stools and bench seating with greenery flowing, allowing for casual chatter. There is ove...
Good Times Arcade
Perfect for the big kids, the Good Times Arcade is Melbourne’s largest collection of retro arcade games from the 20’s through to the 80’s and 90’s. Think pinball, space invaders and multiplayer games such as basketball hoops and pool tables...
Container Bar
A party oasis off to the side of the beer garden, the Container Bar is the perfect place to book for your next warm weather shindig and enjoy all the great vibes Welcome to Thornbury has to offer. Umbrellas will keep you shaded, and the fur...
Whole Beer Garden
Combining our Garden Bar, Deck and Container Bar is our beer garden available for larger groups. The space provides different nooks, offering a variety to the space; The Deck is off to the side for the chatters. The Container Bar & Garden B...
The Cocktail Lounge
The largest of the two sides of The Showroom is our Cocktail lounge, a private function space without the big price tag attached. The bold space has brown leather lounges throughout the space, with wood tones and black steel framing the spa...
The Showroom - Exclusive
Previously a car show room, many moons ago is our Showroom space located at the front of the venue. A warm inviting space, the brown leather lounges, copper bar and black steel and of course our fireplace provides all the theming you need. ...
Showroom Bar
Our showroom bar is the perfect space for those casual “it’s been a while” catch-up drinks. The space offers a floor-to-ceiling sliding door to separate the space making it private to the other half of the venue, as will as your own private...
Reviews for Welcome To Thornbury
taylor kane
When entering you’re met with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating with lots of colour and plants. Ordering a drink here will set you back a bit and it’s quite hard to order within a price range with there being no price list for the bar. The food is good with moderate servings but nothing to boast about and again will set you back a bit. Overall a pretty good place to come with friends or family offering something for everyone but could be improved in some areas.
Mark Harris
We had our wedding here, and the staff were very accommodating! Annaleise was wonderful to work with in coordinating our big day. She was always reachable in the lead-up to the event to answer any questions we had, and the whole process was very smooth. We did a few non-traditional things, and they were more than happy to help facilitate our bar ceremony, as well as our board game night at the end. Our puzzle hunt/escape room also fit perfectly into the space, and having access to the arcade let our guests have a blast! The in-house catering was delicious, and we felt the pricing as an event was very fair. There was a small venue hire fee with an food spend minimum (which we easily hit by virtue of having the event itself). We picked this venue because we're bougie and Melbourne af, and this place is 100% that vibe!
Larissa M
Always a super fun time at welcome to Thornbury. Drink prices are fairly reasonable, tons of outdoor seating and a rotation of different food trucks. Can get a bit busy at times but still a great spot
Mark Walsh
The food isn’t great. Chicken Parmi was absolutely the worst I have ever had. The audacity to believe you can serve up such mediocre food at a high price is outrageous. The venue is no where near busy enough to think that serving up cold food which clearly looks reheated. Add on top of that the electronic message that tells customers there is a 30 minute delay makes it more insulting.
S P
They should rename this dump. It's not in the least welcoming. Staff were surly and just plain rude at times. I can understand their frustration as they seemed under staffed but that's not the customers' fault and we shouldn't have borne the brunt of it! The guy claiming to be the manager was the worst of the lot. Very aggressive attitude for no apparent reason. I have seen roid rage before and this looked just like that except he didn't have big muscles so I don't know what his issue is but something is definitely not right with him. Food was overpriced and underwhelming too. I honestly don't have one nice thing to say about this place. If you're planning an event don't have it here, what a disappointment!
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