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Bars in NSW and Victoria

Cocktail bars, wine bars and craft beer taprooms, licensed by Liquor & Gaming NSW on one side of the Murray and Liquor Control Victoria on the other. A NSW small bar licence caps the room at 120 patrons and rules out gaming machines, so an Albury small bar can be pokies free while the pub next door is not. Staff working both sides carry two responsible service of alcohol qualifications, the Victorian one needing a free refresher every three years. Melbourne Cup Day and the AFL Grand Final eve are public holidays in Wodonga and ordinary days in Albury.

7 listings · 5 towns live · Checked 2026-08-30
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3towns live in NSW
2towns live in VIC
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Where bars are live

Each town links to the bars who work there, including the ones based on the other side of the river.

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Top rated bars

The 6 strongest profiles in the category. Ordered by quality score and then rating, never by payment.

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Bridge Road Brewers

Bars · Beechworth

VIC
No ratings collected yet

Bridge Road Brewers has operated from a 150 year old coach house and stables in the centre of Beechworth since 2005.

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The Goods Shed

Bars · Wodonga

VIC
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A bar and restaurant on Church Street, Wodonga running a seasonal menu and what it calls the largest craft beer fridge between Melbourne and Sydney.

Open Saturdays Details

Tilly's Wagga

Bars · Wagga Wagga

NSW
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A restaurant and cocktail bar on Baylis Street serving share plates and main meals alongside an extensive cocktail list of seasonal signatures…

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Romano's Hotel

Bars · Wagga Wagga

NSW
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Pub on Fitzmaurice Street in Wagga Wagga, pouring beers since 1857 and locally run by the Oates family. It has a bistro kitchen doing pub classics.

5 days a week Details

Bar Olivette

Bars · Wagga Wagga

NSW
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A basement speakeasy-style bar on Fitzmaurice Street built around a 1920s prohibition theme.

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The Thirsty Devil Brewery

Bars · Albury

NSW
No ratings collected yet

Craft brewery and bar in South Albury brewing six core beers on site: a Pale Ale, an IPA, a Red Ale, a mid-strength ale, a Porter and a Ginger Beer.

Hours not published Details

How this category is built

A bar appears in every town it services, not only the town it is registered in. That is why the town counts on this page add up to more than 7. Address and service area are held as separate facts, which is the whole reason a business on one side of the Murray is not invisible on the other.

Listings are marked up as BarOrPub in the structured data. Ordering comes from a quality score, and where it exists, promoted placement is boxed and labelled. How we handle advertising.

Questions about bars

How many bars are listed on LocalsKnow?

7 bars across 5 towns, 3 in New South Wales and 2 in Victoria. A business appears in every town it services, not only the one it is registered in, so the town counts add up to more than the listing count.

Which towns have the most bars?

Wagga Wagga with 4, Albury with 1, Beechworth with 1. Coverage starts on the border corridor and works outwards, so the ordering here reflects where the directory has been built out, not where the trade is busiest.

What schema type do bars use, and why does that matter?

Every listing in this category is marked up as BarOrPub rather than a generic LocalBusiness. The type carries the properties that fit the business, so opening hours, service area and credentials are read as what they are. Marking a bar up as a generic business tells a search engine almost nothing, and it costs the rich result.

How is the order on these pages decided?

By a quality score built from profile completeness, whether the business has claimed its listing, and whether a licence has been checked against the state register. Rating breaks a tie. Payment does not enter it at any point, and any promoted slot is boxed, labelled, and kept out of the structured data.

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