Railway Hotel Fitzroy North

Classic pub whose new owners know not to mess with a successful formula. Delicious pub fare including great range for vegans and vegetarians

Fabulous Vibe, great food, wonderful atmosphere but best of all a really great selection of craft beers and ciders to choose from. Book a table..!

Haven't been for 28 years, but was on my bucket list for after lock down. Just as good as I remember except no spaghetti pesto so had fettuccine. Not gentrified, just classic pub. Loved it.

Good food. Fun mixed crowd on a trivia night. Very drinkable red for under $30 by the bottle. The package is hard to beat.

Good local pub and friendly staff. Food and timing of meals coming out were awful. Many better pub meals elsewhere close by. Definitely won't eat there again.

The sad thing about writing this review is that they I have happy memories of The Railway as a classic inner north Melbourne pub that served excellent pub classics, and some wonderful hearty and well cooked Italian food. The decor always left something to be desired, and they had this weird system for wine whereby you just went into another part of the pub to the bottle shop, picked your wine, and took it back to the pub where they stuck a couple of bucks on it. I liked that, and they had (and still have) a pretty good range of wines and very reasonable prices.Eight friends and I dined here recently on a Thursday night, and the whole experience was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end. Not one person enjoyed their meal. Let me be specific: My veal parma was a very small serve of tough veal and very sparse topping (although the napoli sauce was pretty good). About eight chips accompanied the meal, and I have attache a photo of the so-called side salad. Oh, by the way, nothing had been eaten from that salad--that's how it landed on the table.I ordered an $18 antipasto platter for the table to share. The tiny serve of very ordinary antipasto barely covered the middling sized plate it was served on. The meats were OK, but it wasn't served with any bread or accompaniments of any sort. At $7.50 or even $10 it would still have been ordinary, but at least cheap. At $18 it was a bald-face rip-off. There would have been about $3.00 worth of produce on the plate.There was also close to an hour's gap between the antipasto and the main, despite the fact that I asked for the antipasto to come at the same time as the mains.One of my companions ordered goat with polenta. When the tiny serve arrived with chips and salad, there was no polenta. When he asked, he was told that if you ordered chips and salad with the goat, you didn't get polenta, Eh?No-one had a meal they enjoyed. Steak was tough, and the mixed grills were sparse and ordinary. The table was given two small plates of bread that was none too fresh.Overall, it was a shocking dining experience. We have all put a massive line through this place and will never eat there again. The only good thing about the meal was some good wine at a very reasonable price.As I said at the start of this review, the sad thing about this experience was that all of us had very happy memories of some excellent unpretentious pub classics and Italian food at this once venerable institution.

Authentic pub, plus Italian cuisine - score. Wine at bottle store prices, stunning outside seating under grape vine pergola.

Shame about the beers available. Young Henry’s and Bodriggy screams of let’s get the cheapest kegs we possibly can. Won’t be rushing back.

Good beers. Lots of space, big beer garden. Food is good value. Service can be a little laid back at times so patience is required.

Good solid Italian fare that was reasonably priced and arrived quickly despite being busy. Great waitstaff service. Good beer.