Winchelsea Hotel is located across the offstreet car park of the Winchelsea Motel.

At the Winchelsea Hotel our staff are friendly and attentive to your every need. Our top-class restaurant – hospitality people understand what good old-fashioned service is all about.

We, as a team, endeavour to make sure that your dining experience with us will be one to remember, which you will want to repeat again. We are a small family business having had over 20 years of experience and success in this one establishment, priding ourselves in our service and quality.

We are diverse in our approach to offer our customers a unique experience and will always strive to take that extra mile to ensure our customers are satisfied. We can adapt to any customer need, as we have created our restaurant to cater for not only for the tourist and family, but corporate and formal functions, using our conference room and function room facilities.

Our free WiFi and outdoor entertaining areas may be accessed for your convenience
Our first-class restaurant has a large choice of dishes to suit any appetite or dietary requirement. Now open, is our bar and Grill which specialises in steaks and Tapas dishes.

Call us to see how we can help your business or family enjoy a fantastic and friendly atmosphere whilst experiencing some of the best cuisine Victoria has to offer!
Our car park has 24/7 surveillance for your security.

Our Thirsty Camel Drive-thru Bottle Shop has all your take-away drinks covered, with one of the largest ranges of quality local and international wines the area has to offer.

The Winchelsea Hotel has been a central landmark of the town for more than 160 years, welcoming generations of locals, travellers, farmers, and railway workers. It has watched the town grow, struggle, rebuild and thrive, standing at the heart of one of Victoria’s most historic country towns and remains a symbol of community identity.

In 1864, when the district was young and the roads were little more than dusty tracks, hotel keeper Timothy Hardyman built a place meant to serve a growing rural community. The Winchelsea Hotel and Store quickly became more than a business. It was a heart, a meeting place. a refuge for travellers arriving from Geelong or farmers seeking company after long days in the fields. By 1865, the hotel already had a garden—a small detail that hints at the pride and care poured into the place from the very beginning.

In 1876. the first train steamed into Winchelsea, carrying new faces, new trade, and new stories. The hotel’s doors swung open to railway workers, passengers, and wanderers who stepped off the platform hungry for a warm meal or a bed for the night. The rhythm of the town changed, and the hotel changed with it.

Sometime in the late 1920s, fire tore through the front, central, and rear sections of the hotel. Flames destroyed decades of memories. leaving charred beams and broken brick. But the people of Winchelsea were not ready to let their landmark fade. The hotel rose again rebuilt in the interwar architectural style, a testament to resilience and community spirit.

In 1940, the hotel received the face many locals still remember: new brick facades, fresh porches, and a proud frontage that stood solid through the decades. Generations grew up knowing that silhouette-the place where families gathered, where stories were swapped, where the town’s pulse could always be felt.

Today, the Winchelsea Hotel is recognised as one of the town’s longest-serving commercial buildings and a key part of the town’s heritage.

Its walls hold more than timber and mortar-they hold memory. As the heritage study notes, the hotel remains “a living piece of Winchelsea’s heritage,” a place where the past is not forgotten but woven into every doorway, every brick, every echo of laughter drifting from the bar.