Tingoora Pub (The Tinny): Hours, Menu, History & Comparisons

Tingoora’s first building — the hotel locals call “The Tinny” — dates to 1900, according to regional tourism authority Visit South Burnett. This guide sorts what’s documented about the Tingoora Hotel from what remains unresolved: reported opening hours, menu notes, ownership history, and the pub’s place in Queensland’s wider pub landscape, so you know what to confirm before you ring (07) 4168 5150.

Last checked: 2026-10-25

Name: Tingoora Hotel (The Tinny) · Established: July 1900 · Phone: (07) 4168 5150 · Food service: Lunch Friday–Sunday, dinner Wednesday–Saturday · Special features: Pet-friendly, drive-through bottle shop, live entertainment (via social posts) · Online presence: www.tingoorahotel.com.au, Facebook, Instagram

Key facts

Tingoora pub opening hours

Published schedules for the Tingoora Hotel conflict, and none of the reviewed sources contains an official hours post from the venue itself. Gday Pubs describes the restaurant as open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, with weekends regularly completely booked out, and Publocation repeats the seven-day claim.

The Hotels Restaurant is open 7 days a week, lunch and dinner with weekends regularly completely booked out.— Tingoora Hotel listing via Gday Pubs

A separate reported schedule, consolidated on the Australia Hotel research pages, narrows the kitchen to lunch Friday through Sunday (12:00–14:00) and dinner Wednesday through Saturday (18:00–20:00). Zest, by contrast, lists the bar as operating daily from 10:00 until late. The Australia Hotel research pages state plainly that no current official schedule is established by the available sources.

Gday Pubs’ note that weekends are regularly fully booked points to the Friday-to-Sunday window as the period with the strongest demand, and the most important to lock in ahead.

Tingoora Hotel specifications

Tingoora Hotel menu

No current menu with verified prices was identified in any reviewed source, so the dish lists below are indicative, not guaranteed. Zest categorises the offer as bangers and mash, battered fish and chips, steaks, pizzas, burgers, and house-made desserts. MenuWeb-derived material adds seafood platters and chicken schnitzel to the reported picture.

What reviewers say about the food

Review signals are thin and split. One reported MenuWeb review scored food and service 3/5 with atmosphere 5/5; other reported reviews give all three categories 5/5. A separate review criticised incorrect sides and weaker service. User-generated price estimates on the same platform span roughly AUD 20–40 and AUD 60–80 per person, but those figures are not independently verified.

Who the Tingoora Hotel suits best

• Pet owners: Zest says well-behaved dogs are permitted on leashes on the outdoor deck, and the hotel’s Facebook and Instagram pages confirm pet-friendly status.
• Local regulars: as Tingoora’s only pub, with a drive-through bottle shop, beer garden, and reported Friday-night entertainment, it works as the town’s default meeting point.
• Weekend travelers: Gday Pubs reports weekends regularly booked out, making the Friday-to-Sunday window the most likely to need a reservation.

What is QLD’s oldest pub?

There is no universally accepted answer to Queensland’s oldest pub, and the title depends on whether you measure by original building, continuous licence, or still-trading status. A frequent general-knowledge claimant is the Nindigully Pub in the Goondiwindi region, widely described as tracing its origins to the mid-1800s. The Tingoora Hotel does not compete for that crown — regional tourism material dates the building to 1900, while a separate 2013 local report consolidated in Australia Hotel’s verified-information review places the first opening in July 1907. Either way, the more distinctive local claim is consistent: the hotel was the first building constructed in Tingoora.

The historic Tinny Pub was the first building to be constructed, built in 1900.— Visit South Burnett

The unresolved seven-year gap between 1900 and 1907 is a matter of historical record-keeping; the operational continuity across more than a century is the better-documented pattern. Multiple sources describe a hotel that has held the same community role through ownership changes and physical upgrades.

The Tingoora Hotel through the decades

• 1900: Reported establishment; the first building constructed in Tingoora (Visit South Burnett; Gday Pubs also cites July 1900).
• July 1907: A separate 2013 local report reportedly dates the pub’s first opening (Australia Hotel).
• 1939–1997: Herb Night reportedly won the pub in a card game and held it until 1997 (Gday Pubs).
• 2003: Dan and Wayne Kratzmann reportedly bought the hotel, making physical changes while maintaining its historic character (Gday Pubs).
• 2006: A drive-through bottleshop was reportedly added (Australia Hotel).
• June 2010: Bruce and Jenny Jones, with Barbara Camp, reportedly purchased the property after an auction reached AUD 1 million and was passed in (Australia Hotel).
• 2018: A property prospectus described a bar, approximately 70-seat bistro, function room, beer garden, and modern kitchen (Australia Hotel).

We have owned the Hotel since July 03 and since have made quite a few changes physically to the pub however, have tried to maintain the pubs historic character.— Reported venue operator statement via Gday Pubs

The town name adds another layer: Tingoora is reported to derive from a Wakka Wakka-language word for wattle tree, a detail repeated across aggregator pages but not confirmed in the primary sources reviewed here.

Nearby alternative: Wooroolin Pub

Regional tourism material groups Tingoora with the neighbouring towns of Memerambi and Wooroolin on a single South Burnett page, which places the Wooroolin Pub in the same tourism corridor. No specific hours, menu, or ownership details for the Wooroolin Pub were available in the sources reviewed for this article, so treat it as a known local option rather than a documented one.

What is the most famous pub in Australia?

Australian pub fame usually attaches to extremes of remoteness, age, or cultural footprint. The Birdsville Hotel in outback Queensland is known nationally through the annual Birdsville Races; the Palace Hotel in Broken Hill is recognised for its outback murals; the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda carries a deep live-music history; and the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel in Sydney is commonly cited as the city’s oldest continually licensed pub.

Against that scale, the Tingoora Hotel is a local landmark, not a national one. Regional tourism material identifies it as the first building constructed in Tingoora, and directory listings describe weekend dining, reported Friday-night entertainment, and a drive-through bottleshop. National fame and local significance measure different things.

Which town in Australia has the most pubs?

The “most pubs per capita” claim is frequently attached to Broken Hill in New South Wales and Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. Both are mining towns whose boom histories supported dense hotel networks, and both appear repeatedly in general-knowledge accounts of Australia’s highest pub density.

Tingoora sits at the opposite end of that spectrum. The town has one pub, and that single hotel carries the workload: bar, bistro, function room, drive-through bottleshop, and reported entertainment venue. In a town this size, the pub functions as the meeting room, dining room, and events venue combined.

Finding the Tingoora Hotel

Frequently asked questions about the Tingoora Hotel

Sources

• Visit South Burnett
• Gday Pubs
• Publocation
• Zest
• MenuWeb