What does a pub roast special cost?
The middle listed roast special is $25.00 in this 219-venue sample. 30 of those venues have a qualifying food special below $20.
median of one starting price per venue
Median roast special, by city
Recurring food specials · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Melbourne$29.9948 venues
- Sydney$25.0039 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Prices are for the named meal category. Portions, cuts, toppings, sides and conditions can differ; see the original listing in the venue download.
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The roast can change with the week
A rotating roast is not a fixed cut of meat. Use the listed day and price to narrow the choice, then check what is being served.
Which day has the most to choose from?
Sunday has the largest qualifying day sample: 208 venues, with a median starting price of $25.00. A venue can appear on several days; this is choice in the recorded listings, rather than a survey of every pub.
What does a pub roast special cost?
| Place | Venues | Median | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 219 | $25.00 | $25.85 |
| Victoria | 55 | $29.00 | $29.27 |
| New South Wales | 78 | $24.25 | $23.85 |
| Queensland | 34 | $24.50 | $24.18 |
| Melbourne | 48 | $29.99 | $29.84 |
| Sydney | 39 | $25.00 | $26.59 |
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
- Cheapest qualifying recurring food-special price at the venue, in AUD. The selected weekday and original restrictions are retained.
- 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
219 distinct venues contribute 219 venue-level figures to this report. 0 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Use explicitly priced recurring food-special rows with a named weekday. Exclude member-only, children’s, bottomless, per-person and food-plus-drink bundle descriptions. Do not extract a guessed price from unstructured text.
- Match the named meal category. Where a venue has several matching specials, count its lowest listed qualifying price once. The selected day, original name and restrictions remain in the venue download.
- Different meal portions, cuts, toppings and sides are not standardised. A calendar price is not a promise of current availability; check the venue and day.
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
PINTR’s “What does a pub roast special cost?” report found a median of $25.00 across 219 matching venues.
PINTR. “What does a pub roast special cost?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/roast-night-prices
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