Merrijig Inn
A historic pub with a fairy light-festooned beer garden.
Pub dining$
The floorboards creak, the old windows rattle, but the metre-thick stone walls cocoon you in the front bar of this 180-year-old pub.
Overlooking the River Moyne, the Merrijig Inn is home to chef Tanya Connellan, who writes a new menu daily focusing on local seafood and farm produce. Dishes include snapper fillet from Portland with pureed cauliflower grown on the side of a local volcano, and crunchy pav topped with strawberries and rhubarb from a neighbouring garden – all accompanied by drinks from an award-winning wine list.
With a garden in summer and crackling fires in winter, this old pub oozes beguiling charm.
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