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The Alliance Hotel

Spring Hill

Updated: Oct 02, 2025

Built in 1888*, The Alliance Hotel is one of inner Brisbane's landmark heritage-listed pubs, perched on the corner of Boundary St and St Paul's Terrace in Spring Hill.

Seating inside The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

The newest chapter in its colourful history has seen it taken over by the canny owners of cool city bars Frogs Hollow and Alice, reinventing itself as a convivial Melbourne-style neighbourhood pub.

Seating inside The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

The pub has retained most of its original features, including ornate ceiling roses, fireplaces, carved wooden bars and staircase, sash windows and timber floorboards, while the vibe is casual and inviting, with eclectic retro music and mixed-age clientele.

Tables and chairs inside The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

Take a seat in the front bar, out on the street where there are a handful of tables or in the rear bistro, and enjoy a drink and some delicious pub grub (which is ordered at the counter).

Fried food in a basket on a plate with sauce at The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

The menu offers a range of pub classics with a creative twist, starting with small plates like anchovies on toast (brioche) with coriander pesto & red onion; Scotch egg (wrapped in Italian pork sausage, crumbed); Steak Tartare or Fried Pickles (crumbed sweet'n'sour gherkins with sweet chilli sauce).

Food on a plate at The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

Mains include chicken parmie or schnitzel (with coleslaw and fries); fish & chips (beer battered Qld pearl perch); Rope sausage & mash (350g Cumberland pork sausages with mash, sauerkraut & house made gravy) and Pot Pie (beef, port wine, carrots, onion and celery, with mash); tomato gnocchi or Wagyu beef burger.

Meat and fries on a plate at The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

There's also mussels (white wine, garlic & parsley sauce, served with sour dough); and a choice of steak (Thousand Guineas Rump or T-Bone) with a selection of sauces and sides (jacket potato, mash, fries, broccolini or iceberg wedge salad with blue cheese & bacon), while for dessert the choices are pavlova or tiramisu.

Interior of The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

Meanwhile the drinks menu includes ten beers on tap (a mix of craft beers alongside XXX Gold and Toohey's Old), and ten bottled beers, six cocktails (including The Pub Old Fashioned. As Clear as Melon and La La Land), an extensive (mostly Australian) wine list and back bar spirits (predominantly whiskey, gin and rum). 

Exterior of The Alliance Hotel Spring Hill

*The original Alliance Hotel opened on this site in 1864 before being replaced with the current building in 1888.

Good to know - The Alliance Hotel has a range of function spaces available, including the upstairs bar.

Need to know - There is metered street parking available nearby (free on week nights and weekends) and secure parking at 55 Little Edward St Wilson Parking, with discounted rates for patrons using the code "ALLIANCE".

The menu may have changed since our visit.

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The Alliance Hotel

320 Boundary St

Spring Hill

Opening hours

3839 0169

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