Prospect Hotel & Cellars will open on Prospect Rd next month – the first pub on Prospect Rd

One of Adelaide’s main entertainment strips in Prospect is finally getting its first pub.

One of Adelaide’s main entertainment strips, Prospect Rd in Prospect, will finally be getting its first pub.

Prospect Hotel & Cellars will open its doors in late January, offering a main bar and dining room, function space and alfresco area, with capacity for about 220 patrons.

The venue, which also includes a boutique, independent bottle shop, will be located at 85 Prospect Rd, the former site of a Foodland supermarket.

Dale Wostikow and Josh Voigt (Bowden Cellars, Sideways Liquor, Adelaide Wine Markets) have joined forces with Marc Huber (Mismatch Brewing Co.) for the new venture, under their new company, Good Prospects Group.

Mr Wostikow said the long-awaited venue would bring something unique to the area.

“As a local Prospect resident, the one thing we have always wanted – and needed – was a pub on the main street,” he said.

Mr Huber said he’s “always dreamed” of opening a hotel in Prospect.

The team behind the new Prospect Hotel – Dale Wostikow, Marc Huber, Josh Voigt. Picture: Supplied.,

Prospect Road, Prospect. Picture: Dave Cronin

“I feel incredibly fortunate to have been approached by Dale and Josh to collaborate on this venture,” he said.

“We share strong values and a common vision of hospitality, believing that a pub serves as the heart of a local community.”

The hotel’s menu will combine classic favourites with “elevated culinary creations”, offering staples that pub-goers know and love, alongside a selection of more refined dishes.

There will also be a range of premium domestic and international wines, alongside craft beers, ciders, seltzers and spirits.

Just north of Adelaide, Prospect Rd, Prospect, is well known for its restaurants, cafes and shops but has long lacked a dedicated drinking hole, with other bars located on surrounding streets.

There is a pub, the Empire Hotel, further up the road in Kilburn.

It’s understood the absence of a pub on Prospect’s main drag is due to the local council’s historic links to the Methodist Church.

According to the journal Living in Prospect in the Playford Era by historian Pauline Payne, the Methodist Church was strong in the district and the “absence of hotels along Prospect Rd could be contrasted with the great success of the churches”.

“In 1935 the temperance groups in the district succeeded in their battle to prevent a liquor licence being granted along Prospect Rd,” Payne wrote.

“Prospect’s churches played a vital role in local recreational life with their socials, tennis teams and other sporting clubs.”