The Palace Hotel celebrates winning Best Sports Pub at the Time Out Melbourne Pub Awards 2015
Photograph: Graham Denholm
Photograph: Graham Denholm

Time Out Pub Awards: Past winners

Each year, we crown the champions of Melbourne's pub scene. Here, you'll find them all in one place

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Since their inception in 2014, the Time Out Melbourne Pub Awards has quickly established itself as the bible for Melbourne's pub scene. From Pub of the Year to the People's Choice, a Pub Awards trophy signals a boozer that is a notch above the rest.

Here, we present all of our Pub Award winners, beginning with our inaugural champions in 2014. For the most up-to-date guide to Melbourne's pub scene, be sure to check out our most recent winners of the Time Out Pub Awards, as well as our round-up of the best pubs in Melbourne.

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  • Fitzroy North
Pub of the Year: Terminus Hotel
Pub of the Year: Terminus Hotel
You can tell a lot about a pub from its taps. At the Terminus, they stock such a stellar line up of craft beers and punch those kegs so quickly, it’s printed-and-laminated labels instead of badges fronting half the line.
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  • Abbotsford
Best Entertainment: Yarra Hotel
Best Entertainment: Yarra Hotel
There are too few good old-fashioned boozers these days. The new team behind the refurbished Yarra Hotel would agree with that, as they’ve transformed the neglected local pub into a welcoming den of golden beeriness and decorative warmth.
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  • Brunswick
Family-Friendly Award: Edinburgh Castle Hotel
Family-Friendly Award: Edinburgh Castle Hotel
Everyone is welcome at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Beneath the alpine mural in the sprawling front bar, you might find chunky, tatted rockers pushing wagyu beef burgers past their whiskers, while three year olds cruise past them on the complimentary trikes. This is a true community pub, where families feel welcomed rather than just equipped.
  • Melbourne
Revival Award: The Savoy Tavern
Revival Award: The Savoy Tavern
Until two decades worth of band posters were scraped off this corner of Bourke and Spencer Street we had clean forgotten that a pub lay beneath. Now, the Savoy Tavern stands open and party-light-filled once more.
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  • Footscray
Publican of the Year: The Reverence Hotel
Publican of the Year: The Reverence Hotel
The Reverence is a church where live music is the religion and the doors are open to any and all who seek its comfort. Because far from the fundamentalist worship of rock, the Rev plays host to a staggering variety of local, national and international acts of every flavour from tango to trance.
  • Fitzroy
Legend Award: The Rose
Legend Award: The Rose
There was a time in Fitzroy when the men drank beer, the women drank beer, and Queenslanders weren’t allowed to play footy. The Rose Hotel is one of the few still hanging on to the good old days, surviving and thriving as a hold out of honest, old school pub awesomeness.
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  • St Kilda
People's Choice: The Local Taphouse
People's Choice: The Local Taphouse
Let’s talk about that beer. The name taphouse is well earned, as these champions of brew pour over 400 beers a year through their constantly changing taps. There’s also a full calendar of sudsy events, unsurprising seeing as founders Steve Jeffares and Guy Greenstone also started the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular.

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