Our Take on The Camfield
From the river path at Burswood, The Camfield reads as a stadium annex with a beer garden the size of a training oval, which on AFL Saturdays is exactly how Perth uses it. The pub sits on the Swan River bank at the base of Optus Stadium and has carried the title of Australia's biggest pub since opening in 2018, per Tourism WA.
The numbers do the introducing: capacity of 2,500, six bars, around 175 taps, and pizza ovens that turn out four pizzas a minute by the house's own count.
Broadsheet covered the opening as a statement build, and a Little Creatures microbrewery now runs inside the venue, brewing meters from the taps it fills.
Reading the Room
The main hall runs industrial, steel, timber, and glass opening onto the garden, where the stadium fills the skyline across the concourse. On event days the garden becomes a single moving queue that somehow keeps pouring.
Quieter weekdays turn the same space into a riverside session pub, families on the lawn and the brewery kit ticking behind glass.
The Menu, Edited
Who Shows Up, and When
Match days are the spectacle: tens of thousands cross the Matagarup Bridge and a fair share stop here first, scarves on, two hours before bounce. The pub absorbs it the way smaller rooms absorb a Friday.
Outside the fixture list it draws corporate functions, birthdays, and Burswood locals using the garden as a riverside front yard, a mix Livin Local documents year round.
The Word on the Street
- Tourism WA bills it as Australia's largest pub on the Swan River bank.
- Broadsheet covered the 2018 opening at the base of the new stadium.
- Simply PERTHfect praises the beer garden scale and the family room balance.
- The Urban List ranks it among Perth's best sports bars for the stadium walk alone.
Go, or Skip
- Anyone with a ticket to Optus Stadium and time to spare
- Big groups that defeat normal pubs
- Avoid if you want intimacy; this is infrastructure
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