24 | August• 2017TRAVEL
bush tomatoes. For a truly unique
Australian pub food experience, what
could be more adventurous?THE ETTAMOGAH PUB,NSW
When Australian cartoonist Ken
Maynard scratched out his first
doodles of the Ettamogah Pub in
the late ’50s – an oddly top-heavy
construction full of chain-smoking
dogs and rural ruffians with a flat-bed
truck parked precariously on the roof- he could not have imagined that half
a century later four such pubs would
exist in the real world. A brick and
mortar tribute to his comic strip that
ran in the weeklyAustralasian Post
from 1958 until its final issue in 2002,
From outback watering holes to rocking celebrity dens
Iconic Aussie Pubs
The Prairie Hotel’s Flinders
Ranges backdrop is hard to beatTHE PRAIRIE HOTEL,SOUTH
AUSTRALIAVotedAustralia’s
Number1OutbackHotelby
Australian Geographiccmagazine in
2016, the Prairie Hotelin Parachilna
draws thousands ofvisitors each
yearfor its stunningFlinders Ranges
location, artisan accommodations
andhighlyunusualmenu. While
thegourmet bush foods change
seasonally,thesignaturedish,
availableyear-round, is the FMG- feralmixedgrill–andbasically
means ifyou can kill it, they’llgrill it.
Kangaroo, wallaby,emu,goat, camel,
rabbit ... are expertlycomplemented
by locallysourcednative ingredients
such as quandongs, nativelimes and PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE PRAIRIE HOTEL
BY GREG BARTON