The Middle Pub

We visited this pub for an early dinner on NYE and had a great experience! The lady working on food was fabulous! Very understanding and thoughtful. The food was great value and delicious (highly recommend the salmon). The drinks were good too!

Lovely room with Mountain Views. Clean & very comfortable bed. Food was great, well priced & friendly staff. Great location in the center of town. Loved the ambiance in the bar area. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay & would definitely come again.

This pub in Mullumbimby has atmosphere in spades and is well worth a visit if you are in the Northern Rivers in NSW. The town is known for its for its alternate lifestyle and this is evident in the people dining at the hotel My wife and I ordered from the $20 fixed priced menu rather than from the alternative choices. Good call. My seafood basket was generous and tasty, while my wife’s sausages, mashed potatoes and peas were exactly as advertised. Not Master Chef presentation, but great value for money.

Tried to get accommodation in Mullumbimby for an overnight stop. Two choices, a motel and the pub, both apparently owned by the same folk. Can only book on line… so I did but only after i went into the pub and spoke to the barman. So $120 paid and it went bad from there. No parking available out the back… try later he said. Ok.. upstairs we go, through the rabbit warren to find a hot stuffy room. No aircon, no bathroom. So backdown stairs we go.. he basically called us liars and took the key and raced upstairs. Oh, he says sorry I haven’t been up here for a while. Downstairs we go again, for him to say I’ll have to give you a room at the other place. Again no parking, the complex is grubby, bathroom old and moody. Suggestion, don’t stay in Mullumbimby.

There was a cool room motor outside the room that literally made the hairs on my legs vibrate. I booked a room with an ensuite and was given a room with work out lumpy beds, a Wardrobe and dressing table from the wild west with paint chips out of them and graffitti on the sides, The room door did not unlock, had to go into it from the other side, the common toilet doors did not lock. See photos for product versus pack shot. There were no photos on their web site of the room that I got. I wonder why. For $30 extra I could have had a room with a pool and sauna on the the Gold Coast. After 4 hours of trying to get to sleep I gave up and left at 2 a.m. It was more comfortable to drive to Coolangatta and sleep in my car.

The Middle Pub, Mullumbimby, is iconic. Situated on the central intersection in Burringbar Street, it's upper floor has the most charming wrought iron balcony on two sides from which one can view the comings and goings on the main street, view the sunsets and be in close proximity to the noisy Lorikeets vying for space in the Bangalow palms. However, to get upstairs to this rare balcony, it is unbelievably disheartening to see the filthy carpet on the stair treads and the build up of dirt in the corners of each step. The bannister too has not been wiped clean for who knows how long. The landing has not had a good scrub for decades judging by the build up of spills over a long period of time. On the balcony itself, also long overdue for a good spit and polish, one is confronted with most unattractive furniture one could possibly encounter on such an otherwise beautiful balcony. It is without doubt an incredible injustice to a rare building as this, in the heart of Mullumbimby. Tess