The pint-and-parma bill
Dinner and a pint: what does it add up to before you find a special? We paired each pub’s cheapest listed regular identified-beer pint with its cheapest regular chicken parma / parmi. At the middle venue, the two come to $42.40.
median separate-price total · 1,181 matched venues
Median pint-and-parma total, by city
Regular prices · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Melbourne$44.00304 venues
- Sydney$41.40137 venues
- Brisbane$40.3570 venues
- Perth$43.50125 venues
- Adelaide$42.00109 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Regular menu starting prices; dish portions and ingredients can differ.
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Separate regular menu prices added together. This is not a meal-deal offer.
Two menu prices, from the same pub
A cheap beer in one venue and a cheap dinner down the road would make a tidy headline, but not a bill you could actually order together. Only venues with both a regular pint and a regular parma price enter this sample.
Where the $40 line falls
The two separate menu prices add up to less than $40 at 271 of 1,181 venues—22.9% of the matched sample. It is a starting-point bill rather than an advertised bundle: the menu evidence may have been recorded on different dates, and availability still rests with the pub.
One regular pint plus one regular parma / parmi
| Place | Venues | Median total | Below $40 | Share below $40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1,181 | $42.40 | 271 | 22.9% |
| Victoria | 400 | $43.90 | 61 | 15.3% |
| New South Wales | 253 | $41.20 | 85 | 33.6% |
| Queensland | 186 | $40.80 | 67 | 36.0% |
| Western Australia | 155 | $43.50 | 13 | 8.4% |
| South Australia | 131 | $42.00 | 32 | 24.4% |
| Melbourne | 304 | $44.00 | 43 | 14.1% |
| Sydney | 137 | $41.40 | 48 | 35.0% |
| Brisbane | 70 | $40.35 | 29 | 41.4% |
| Perth | 125 | $43.50 | 12 | 9.6% |
| Adelaide | 109 | $42.00 | 26 | 23.9% |
The data behind the report
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Frozen edition 2026-11-07-501081af9ed8. These download URLs remain attached to this snapshot.
What the fields mean
- venues / n
- Distinct contributing venues in that place and table; not all pubs in the area.
- value
- The venue price used in this report: lowest regular pint, venue-average pint, Guinness price, lowest matching dish or combined bill, as explained below.
- checked
- Recorded source-check date. Blank means a complete date is unavailable. For a venue average or bill, every part needs a date; the earliest date is retained.
- snapshot_date
- When the public PINTR catalogue snapshot was retrieved, not when every venue’s menu was checked.
How we counted
1,181 distinct venues contribute 1,181 venue-level figures to this report. 578 of those figures have a complete recorded source-check date.
- PINTR includes pubs, bars, clubs and other licensed venues. Every headline count refers to the matching PINTR sample, not every pub in an area.
- A beer price must match a visible venue in the retrieved full catalogue. Unmatched venue records are excluded.
- This is a snapshot of reported prices in PINTR, not a representative survey of every Australian pub. A venue without a matching price is outside the denominator, rather than counted as expensive.
- Regular prices only. Happy hours, daily specials, members’ prices, alcohol-free products and drinks without an explicit serving label are excluded. Known venue aliases are counted once.
- A table row needs at least 30 contributing venues. City areas use PINTR’s published state-boundary and radius definitions; neighbouring city catchments can overlap.
- A snapshot date records when PINTR’s public catalogue was retrieved. It does not mean each menu was checked that day. Individual source-check dates, including blanks, are retained in the downloads.
- Inner-join venues with a cheapest regular identified-beer pint and a cheapest regular chicken parma / parmi. Add the two prices at the same venue. Each venue contributes one bill. Timed offers and daily food specials do not enter either part.
- The sum is an analytical total of separately recorded menu prices, not a verified bundle or an advertised deal. A combined evidence date is shown only when both parts have a date; the earlier date is retained.
- Beer comparisons use identified products labelled “pint” on the recorded menu. Unspecified tap/house beer listings are excluded. The label does not guarantee the same volume everywhere, particularly in South Australia; these figures are not a like-for-like volume ranking.
Prices come from PINTR’s published venue and price catalogue, retrieved . The public directory and downloads show the supporting figures. This report does not measure inflation, national market share or changes over time.
PINTR price methodologyCite this finding
A regular named-beer pint plus a regular chicken parma / parmi totalled a median $42.40 across 1,181 matched venues in PINTR’s Australian sample. These are separate listed menu prices added together, not advertised meal deals.
PINTR. “The pint-and-parma bill” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/pint-and-parma-prices
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