A family pub that grew a casino
Twenty-seven years, three generations of regulars, one rule that never changed: nobody leaves hungry or unwelcome.
THE ROCKS · SYDNEY · EST. 1998
The building is 1880s. The welcome is timeless.
From camp kitchens to Circular Quay
The Moreton family fed shearers and station hands for a decade before the lease on 100 George Street came up. They took the recipes, the coals and the attitude — and left the swags behind.
The camp kitchen years
Marg and Bill Moreton run catering across the Riverina — damper, stew and whatever the day's muster deserved.
George Street opens
A 40-seat grill house in an 1880s warehouse. First Friday sells out. It still does.
The gaming licence
Nine years of paperwork ends with 30 machines and four tables upstairs. The boutique casino is born.
The Hall is built
The rear stables become a 200-seat event space — conferences by day, weddings by night.
Native pantry menu
Chef Della Moreton — third generation — rebuilds the menu around indigenous ingredients. Awards follow.
Today
180 seats, 62 machines, six event spaces — and Bill still does the Friday door shift.
Three rules, painted on the kitchen wall
RULE 01
Feed people properly
Real portions, real ingredients, real coals. A counter meal should still be worth the trip.
RULE 02
Everyone's a local
First visit or fiftieth — same welcome, same pour, same table if we can manage it.
RULE 03
Play it straight
Honest prices, honest odds, honest answers. The gaming floor runs clean or not at all.
What twenty-seven years built
The faces behind the floor
Forty-odd staff, a third of them here over a decade. These are the ones you'll meet first.
Della Moreton
HEAD CHEF
Third generation. Built the native pantry menu.
Bill Moreton
FOUNDER
Still does the Friday door shift, on principle.
Sarah Okoye
EVENTS DIRECTOR
Runs every booking from quote to last dance.
Marcus Chen
CASINO MANAGER
Fifteen years keeping the floor fair and friendly.
Things we're proud of
The builds and programs that shaped the place — most still running.
The Heritage Restoration
Two years restoring the 1880s sandstone and original timber trusses — the building finally looks like it deserves to.
Native Pantry Project
Direct supply from Indigenous growers — quandong, wattleseed, saltbush. Now 60% of the menu.
Tucka Foundation
$40k+ a year to Riverina rural youth programs — where the family started, we still give back.