There’s been a few changes out at the Sandy Creek Pub In recent months.
Nothing too big mind you – after all a lot of the charm of the pub (which is officially known as the Darling Downs Hotel not that many people call it that) is that it has been there forever – well since 1866.
But owner operators Kevin and Karen Kiley, who have a farm locally and took on the pub in 2017, have added a new outdoor area.
“We’ve added a brand-new undercover area – called the barn – it looks like a barn but it’s come up a treat out here in the beer garden,” Kev said.
“It’s getting a lot of use, which is really good. It’s an undercover eating area, back out in the beer garden.”
He said they have plenty of fun activities coming up.
“We’ve got a band on May 22 with the traditional pig on the spit and the firepits – that’ll be thirty bucks a head all inclusive and we’ve actually got a new band coming on the 12th of June called Sliding Doors,” Kev explained.
“The one on the 22nd is the Whiskey Mountain Boys who have been here before but as I said I have a new band from the Gold Coast coming on the 12th of June. They’ll be here then and of course our kitchen has been doing fantastic and we still have the Jag The Joker every Friday night with the meat trays.”
He said Friday nights have been becoming so popular that they have now doubled the meat trays on offer with the proceeds of the raffles going to Lifeflight.
“The Jag the Joker is almost $3.5K this Friday night but it seems to be going up and up and up – a gentleman won $17K two or three weeks,” Kev said.
As farmers, Kev and Karen actually produce all of the lamb, pork and beef used in the kitchen and are proud that their food is locally sourced and they know just where it comes from.
“Actually it’s all been going pretty well and yes we’re still serving the best Pizza’s in Allen, we still have our Parmy nights on Thursday night where you can have a chicken, pork or beef snitty with your choice of topping,” he said.
“On Sunday night it’s Pizza night, in between we have the kitchen open Friday night, Saturday lunch, Saturday night and Sunday lunch. But we want people to watch this space – we are toying with the idea (hasn’t started yet) of doing Sunday morning breakfasts here at the Sandy.”
He hopes to start that soon but with his other business – pig racing – now back and running, Kev is keeping pretty busy and has four events on this weekend alone.
“We did do the pig races here on March 20 and we’d like to let people know that each of the charities – there were three charities Warwick Cancer Council, the Wheatvale State School P&C and Lifeflight – we managed to get $2731 for them,” he said.
“So we would like to say a big thank you to our major sponsors. It was a good day.”
The Sandy Creek Pub is at 345 Sandy Creek Road, Allan. Call Kevin and Karen on 4661 3413 and pay a visit online at www.darlingdownshotel.com.au.
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