Melbourne Eats: BrewDog Pentridge, Coburg Review

BrewDog Pentridge, Coburg Review

Hello! Welcome back to another Melbourne Eats blog on Eats With Ash! If you’d like to check out some other ones, you can do so via the “Melbourne Eats” category. The other week, Luke and I celebrated what we call “Possum Day,” which is the anniversary of our first ever date. So, we decided to go out and celebrate, and we wanted to take Benji with us, so we went down to BrewDog Pentridge, Coburg as it’s a dog-friendly pub. Please enjoy my review of BrewDog.

Location: E-Division, 1 Champ Street, Coburg, VIC 3058 (in Pentridge)
Opening Hours: M – T: 12 pm – 10 pm, F: 12 pm – 12 am, Sat: 11 am – 12am, Sun: 11 am – 10 pm
Price Range: $30 – $60 pp (AUD)
Cuisine: Pub Food (pizzas, burgers, craft beer, etc.)

All prices are in AUD.

What We Ate

Drinks

Long Island Iced Tea $25.50
Essendon Planes $15
Pineapple Juice $7.5 (very pricey)

Mains

Pizza Bread & Dips $21.95
Fries $11.95
Chicken Wings (to share) $26.95 – there WAS SO MANY
Yarra Valley Heirloom Tomato & Burrata Salad $27.95

Desserts

Cookie Monster $14.95
Fruits of the Forest $14.95 (and was vegan)

I think we got our desserts on special for the day they went, as I remember them being about $12 so it may depend on the day/time you go.

My Review

Luke and I ended up getting a lot of share plates/grazing food, but it was a decent amount of food, and we also got dessert, which we didn’t need at all. My favourite part was the desserts because they were WAY bigger than I expected and I thought they were well priced for the size. Usually, with a dessert it’s small and expensive. The ice cream and sorbets tasted home made and I hate to say this, but their cookies and cream ice cream was way better than mine (but hey, mine’s still good).

The staff were really friendly, but it took a while for our drinks to come out and no one brought us any water – that could have been our fault though, we didn’t ask and we weren’t sure if there was a “grab your own” water section like some pubs do. I LOVED the burrata salad, it was super fresh and gave me a longing for summer. The pizza bread and dips were a bit average, fries were yummy and crunchy, and the chicken wings were quite spicy, in a good way, and there were so many wings for the share plate – definitely worth the extra $. AND THE BEST THING ABOUT ALL THIS FOOD IS THAT IT DIDN’T CAUSE ANY IBS ISSUES FOR ME.

The pros of this pub for me were: dog-friendly, random people talked to us because we had a corgi, staff said hello to Benji, and great desserts. The cons were that the drinks took ages and it’s more on the expensive side. I think next time we go here, we’ll get the main means instead. They also seem to have an extensive vego/vegan range, so it’ll be interesting to try some of that stuff too. I want to try the burgers next.

Would be a great little spot in summer after work with your pup to have a bevvy. And it’s super local to us so I think we’ll be going here again once the weather warms up.

Here’s some photos