Meigas Ballarat: Spanish restaurant tapas menu & location

A Spanish restaurant in Ballarat city centre, Meigas Ballarat offers a traditional Spanish tapas menu plus some spectacular platters.

Meigas Ballarat brings a traditional Spanish flavour to Armstrong Street North in Ballarat. This Ballarat Spanish restaurant is in the city centre, within a short walk of Ballarat train station and the Art Gallery.

Unlike other tapas restaurants that try a bit too hard to be eccentric and take in flavours from around the world, Meigas sticks to tried-and-tested Spanish dishes.

Meigas Ballarat menu

On the Meigas Ballarat menu are classics such as patatas bravas, Spanish tortilla and meatballs in almond sauce.

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Sovereign Hill tickets – visit Australia’s best open air museum. Give it a full day, too – there’s so much to see and do.
Ballarat Wildlife Park entry – meet loads of cute native Aussie animals.
Kryal Castle admission – enjoy a bizarre knights in armour theme park.
Beer-making course – learn to brew, with tastings and lunch thrown in.

Elsewhere on the tapas menu, you’ll find croquetas, Galician-style octopus, adobo pork loin and beef cheek in PX sherry. Dishes on the tapas section of the Meigas Ballarat menu cost between $9 and $21.50.

Meigas Ballarat platters

If you don’t fancy tapas, then Meigas also does some fabulous platters. At the simpler end of the scale, there’s a calamari and prawns platter. But you can go the whole hog, devouring a seafood platter or meat platter for two.

Meigas Ballarat, along with the Boatshed restaurant and Pancho, is a good choice for an evening meal if you’ve come to Ballarat to take in the city’s attractions. Top of the list is obviously Sovereign Hill, the giant open air history museum. It’s worth sorting out your tickets in advance for that.

Other things to do in Ballarat include the Ballarat Botanical Gardens on the western shore of Lake Wendouree and Ballarat Wildlife Park. The latter offers visitors the opportunity to hand-feed kangaroos and hold a wombat.

Top Ballarat accommodation options include the apartment-style Quest, the family-friendly Big4 NRMA Ballarat holiday park and the well-reviewed Lake Inn.