Uraidla Hotel: Why visit this Adelaide Hills pub?

The Uraidla Hotel in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, serves up great food in its beer garden. It also showcases unusual craft beers from the Uraidla Brewery.

The Uraidla Hotel, along with the Crafers Hotel and Hahndorf Inn, is one of the classic Adelaide Hills pubs.

Where is the Uraidla Hotel?

Uraidla is a small town in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. It’s on the Greenhill Road between the northern end of the Cleland Conservation Park and Balhannah. It’s also surrounded by wineries, but after the cellar doors have closed, the Uraidla Hotel is the best place for a drink or six.

The Uraidla Hotel feels made for sunny days. The first floor balcony is gorgeous, and the beer garden merrily sprawls away from the handsome stone building.

Pick your perfect Adelaide day trips

Barossa Valley tours: 1. Wine-tasting with lunch 🍷. 2. Food and wine tour. 3. Small group wine tour with exclusive VIP tastings.
Kangaroo Island in a day – including sea lions 🦭, koalas 🐨and national parks.
Adelaide Hills tours: 1. Sights plus Murray River lunch cruise combo. 2. Small group cheese, chocolate & wine tour with Hahndorf German village.
McLaren Vale tours: 1. Small group wine tour with lunch. 2. Hop-on hop-off wineries tour 🍷. 3. Food and wine indulgence tour, including the gloriously weird d’Arenberg Cube.
Victor Harbor and southern highlights tour – including the Granite Island horse-drawn tram.

History of the Uraidla Hotel

The pub was first licensed in 1867, and has been an important community hub ever since. The current owner put a great emphasis on sustainability. A mission statement, proudly boasting of sustainable values, takes pride of place on the Uraidla Hotel’s website.

“We grow and harvest vegetables and fruit on-site, offer substantial vegan and vegetarian menus, up-cycle useful pre-loved items and furniture, source from local and ethical suppliers,” reads the statement.

Uraidla Hotel food menu and Uraidla Brewery beers

It helps, of course, that the Uraidla Hotel, has a very tempting food menu. Options include slow-cooked shawarma pulled lamb shoulder and a beer beef short rib.

Beers, meanwhile, are brewed just next door in the Uraidla Brewery. Options include the Moonlight Oatmeal Stout, the Lucid Sunrise West Coast IPA and the Primeval Slayer New Zealand Pale Ale.

**15 fabulous Adelaide experiences to supercharge your visit**

DOLPHINS 🐬: Swim with wild dolphins, kayak with the resident bottlenose pod or watch them on a dolphin cruise.
FOOD AND WINE 🍷: Indulge on Adelaide food tour including Adelaide Central Market. Or try a wine discovery tour with tastings at the National Wine Centre. Or the ultimate Penfolds Magill Estate experience with full estate tour & Grange tasting.
WILDLIFE 🐨: Spot koalas on a guided Morialta nature hike. Or walk from Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty with entrance to Cleland Wildlife Park.
CRUISES ⛵: Watch the sun set on a twilight coastal cruise, get to know the city on a Torrens River cruise or take a high tea cruise aboard the Popeye.
SPORT 🏏: Dare to take on the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb or enter the fabled scoreboard on the behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
ACTION 🚵‍♂️: Descend Mount Lofty on a downhill mountain bike tour or kayak along the Torrens River.

If visiting the Adelaide Hills, the emphasis is likely to be on wine, although you can try locally-produced spirits at the Applewood Distillery in Gumeracha. Unico Zelo wines is also based here. Other wineries worth visiting include the Lane Vineyard in Hahndorf, Golding Wines in Lobethal and the Howard Vineyard in Nairne. While in Nairne, you can also drink Mismatch Brewing beers at the collaborative Lot 100.