Port Melbourne VIC 3207
The dining room has stayed busy for four decades. Reserve ahead for dinner, or take a stool in the front bar for a quieter drink.
A Port Melbourne Steakhouse With 150 Years on the Corner
The Railway Club Hotel stands on the corner of Raglan Street in Port Melbourne, a pub that has traded since 1875 and kept one of the busiest dining rooms in the city for the past 40 years, by its own account and the local listings. Visit Port Melbourne files it as a beloved landmark, and the classic facade is the giveaway. This is a neighbourhood institution, not a new opening chasing a trend.
Come here for a serious steak and a cold drink in a room with history, not for a cocktail program. The crowd is regulars, families and locals who have been coming for years. If you want the polished side of Melbourne drinking, look elsewhere. If you want a proper pub that takes its kitchen seriously, this is the address.
A traditional public bar and restaurant sit on the ground floor, with refurbished dining rooms upstairs that the pub sets aside for private bookings. The Urban List and AGFG both note the open kitchen as the centre of the room. You can watch your cut cooked from the floor, which keeps the focus where the pub wants it.
The headline is the beef. The kitchen grills pasture-fed Australian beef and ages it onsite for tenderness, and diners choose their own cut from a display fridge before it goes to the open kitchen, per the venue's own description. Seafood and a board of specials round out the menu. Treat the bar as the supporting act here. Order a cold beer or a glass of wine to sit alongside the steak rather than expecting a long mixed-drink list.
Port Melbourne locals, families and long-standing regulars, the kind of room that fills for a Friday dinner and a Sunday lunch. Forty years of steady trade, as the pub and Only Melbourne both note, has built a loyal table.
- A serious steak dinner in a historic Port Melbourne pub
- A group booking in the upstairs dining rooms
- A quiet drink at a traditional corner bar
For more Melbourne pubs with history, line it up with Cherry Tree Hotel in Melbourne, The Precinct Hotel in Melbourne, and The John Curtin Hotel in Melbourne.
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Sources: The Railway Club Hotel official site (railwayclubhotel.com.au, accessed June 2026); Visit Port Melbourne; Only Melbourne; The Urban List Melbourne; AGFG; Yelp Port Melbourne. Founding year (1875), the onsite-aged pasture-fed beef, the choose-your-own-cut display fridge, the seafood and the upstairs dining rooms confirmed against the venue's own site and the listings above.