Circa 1884

Circa 1884 is teaming up with our friends at to bring a night of premium wines and food perfectly paired to complement the 🍇 juice!

Yalumba family winemakers are based in Barossa SA, and are celebrating 175 years in the game! They have been producing stellar wines for eons and we are proud to stock their Shiraz currently on our list!

At $130 per person all inclusive, join us Monday from 6:30pm, August 12 with winemaker Louisa Rose as she guides us through the following lineup, just swipe through to see!

Circa 1884 will provide a rolling selection of premium food items including oysters, Vitello tonnato, Peking duck spring rolls and much, much more!

Bookings essential, call or email to lock in your place!

☎️ 97073298
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Open from 3pm today 🍸

At Circa 1884, we just love whisky 🥃

Join us for a dram this week… open Wednesday - Saturday from 3pm

Treat yourself to a midweek indulgence.

Food ✅
Cocktails ✅
Wine ✅

New on the menu:

Medieval Medicine

•gin
•yellow chartreuse
•chamomile
•honey
•lemon

Harking back to the days of Cistercian monks using booze for medicine, this herbal tonic is sure to kill away any heeby jeebies you might have this winter.

Think of it like your penicillin, and we have plenty of repeat scripts for this folks 😉 And the best part? It tastes delightful!

The Rum Rebellion

Q: What do pirates & Australians have in common?

A: They love being girt by sea & indulging in obscene amounts of rum.

So much so, that the only military takeover in Australian government history had to do with - you guessed it - rum.

Picture this, it’s Sydney 1808, a penal colony where money is scarce, public intoxication is rife and people are unsavoury, even the soldiers were wily and often corrupt.

Instead of coins or bank notes, people were almost exclusively paid in goods (most notably rum) of which the good old NSW corps had a monopoly on.

In what is now known as the ‘Rum Rebellion’, colonial soldiers decided to take it upon themselves to boot out the governor, William Bligh, from his office and take control.

For what was his heinous and clearly ‘evil’ crimes you might ask? Trying to do what his predecessors could not, which was to crack down on public drunkenness & eradicate the extortionate on-selling of rum from the soldiers onto convicts and lower ranking military officials.

The soldiers, or the ‘rum corps’ as they became known, simply couldn’t have some one meddling with their shady enterprise. Of course, justice eventually prevailed as this ushered in a new era where politics and alcohol could peacefully co-exist without corruption. Or is that just the rum talking?

A homage to the event of the past…

The Rum Rebellion:
•tropical rum blend
•pineapple
•lime
•Demerara sugar

The newest addition to the snacks menu:

Meatball subs

Hand rolled meatballs cooked in a rich, house-made San Marzano Napoli sauce, finished with Parmesan, garlic mayonnaise and parsley. Served in artisan buns baked by our good friends at Blanc Bakery in Berwick.

What to drink? Take your pick.

Or ask our knowledgeable staff, who love being able to get creative and choose for you based on your preferences and tastes.

With over 30 cocktails on our list, plus 100’s more in our back pocket - we can find something for you!

Our courthouse home was built in 1884 and is a significant fabric of the heritage of Berwick.

Designed by JT Kelleher, who also designed the Traralgon Post Office, as well as two other identical Post Office/Courthouse buildings in Mortua & Donald, it stands proudly to look over the High Street of Berwick.

When you join us, you are immersing yourself in history.

The Gavel

•Jamaican rum
•banana liqueur
•Pedro Ximenez
•dry vermouth
•brûlée banana

New on the menu 🍸 The Perfect winter sipper. Because when the magistrate swings the gavel, it’s absolutism - and this is an absolute beauty! Get it while it’s hot!

WHISKY WEDNESDAYS

USA EDITION 🇺🇸

The timing is perfect, as we kick off whisky Wednesdays on the Eve of 4th of July with an All - American line up🥳

If you love bourbon and rye whisky, this is the night for you! Boasting some incredibly juicy and unique whiskies (swipe across to see the line up), you’ll not want to miss out!

reservations essential.

97073298
[email protected]

Just some of the delicious morsels on offer for our King’s Birthday Eve event, Sunday June 9.

•Vegetarian, cured meat & seafood deli items
•Arancini
•Crumbed prawns
•Calamari
•Lamb Ribs
•Korean Chicken Taco
•Dessert

All for just $65. Treat yourself! Have you secured your table yet?

Call or email to book

97073298
[email protected]

A momentous day here and all around the world:

World Whisky Day 🥃

We celebrate it almost every day, but here is a day to celebrate the golden nectar. Whether it’s a single malt, rye, bourbon or a blend, raise a glass and join us today.

With plenty in our back bar, there is sure to be something to tickle your fancy.

Recline and relax in style in our magistrates chambers, open from Wednesday - Saturday 3pm onwards.

What will your first drink be?

Opulence awaits

We take the same approach with our food as we do our cocktails, using only high quality ingredients prepared fresh in our kitchen by our people with our recipes.

That’s how we ensure you will always have a unique experience with each and every visit.

Rise & rise again, you’re only one concoction away from being on top of the world.

Open today from 3pm 🍸

At Circa 1884, we love cocktails.

We also love the link between literary greats and their love of cocktails, such as Ernst Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald (Hemingway invented the cocktail, “Death in the Afternoon” - look it up, if you dare).

We like to think that cocktails were the key to their literary genius. Yet while they dealt purely in fiction, at Circa 1884 we deal only in pure hard (alcohol) facts that will stand up in the court of law.

So today we pay homage to another literary giant, none other than our main man, William “Billy Boy” Shakespeare, it’s his birthday later this month.

As Shakespeare’s Macbeth once famously said, “Come what may”.

So, in honour of that jovial wordsmith (who may or may not have given us a few migraines in year 9 English) - we present to thee:

“Kumquat May”

Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin
Kumquat juice
Kumquat syrup

A few sips of this bad boy and you’ll be speaking Middle English in no time. Rain, hail or shine, kumquat may.

Come down and join us this Wednesday and/or Thursday before the Easter break. Don’t forget to pick up some takeaway cocktails if you can’t make it down.

Happy Easter! 🍸

Slip down to circa slop on a mint julep slap ya homies with a high five - it’s the long weekend folks!

Join us today - OPEN NOW

Some like it spicy 🌶️

Behold: The Arsonist - our play on a spicy marg.

Open from 3pm

Circa 1884 is proud to announce our first wine event for 2024!

Partnering up with our friends at Moet & Chandon to bring you 6 summer selections from their catalogue:

• Chandon Garden Spritz
• M de Minuty Rose
• Whispering Angel Rose
• Terrazas Chardonnay
• Moet & Chandon Imperial
• Moet & Chandon Imperial Rose

Join us as brand ambassador Paul Nicholls talks through each wine as we serve specially curated food pairings which are sure to delight!

$150 per person
Monday March 25th
6:30-9PM

Bookings essential
97073298
[email protected]

We can smell the Friday knock offs.

A fan favourite: The Out On Bail

LABOUR DAY EVE - Sunday March 10

A Day Less Laboured - $55 per person

Who doesn’t love a day off work? To mark such a momentous occasion, we thought we would give you hard working souls a treat to look forward to!

Not only are we opening our doors on this day, but we are bringing back our delectable lobster rolls on special! For $55 per person includes all you see:

•lobster rolls
•salt & pepper calamari
•grilled prawns
•arancini

Treat yourself right - Book now!
97073298
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Not sure what to drink? Leave it to us. Our expert and passionate team are well versed in the world of cocktails - simply pick a spirit or a flavour profile and we will do the rest.

We shake and stir to order, so if its on the menu or not, we got you sorted either way.

Dine Like A Judge - $55 per person

If you often find your hunger is insatiable, then our 'Dine Like A Judge' grazing option is the perfect choice for you.

At just $55 per person, it is the perfect accompaniment to your evening, ensuring you're well fed, and not panicking over what to select, or worse yet - ending up with food envy.

All you have to worry about? Which cocktail to order first.

Cicchetti are small savoury snacks (much akin to the Spanish 'tapas') originating in Venice, Italy. Normally accompanied by a 'shadow' - a small glass of wine - or
'ombra' as it is known in Venetian language. It is quite socially acceptable to ask your friends:

'Andémo béver un'ombra'

Meaning, 'Let's go drink a shadow.'

There are two lessons here:
1. The Italians know how to eat & drink well
2. Never be afraid of your own shadow

Salut 🇮🇹

Our mushroom & truffle arancini.
Arancini derives its name from the Italian word for 'orange' or arancia, due to its resemblance in colour and shape to the citrus when fried.

We hand roll and cook our arancini fresh in our kitchen using the best quality ingredients, so you can be sure that when you dine with us, you're enjoying food of true provenance.

The Adjournment

Bright fruitiness gives way to refreshing acidity of the shrub & verjus, with the boozy kick almost unnoticeable.

If ever a court had to adjourn, this is what we’d like to think they’d have waiting for them on the other side.

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