The Postmaster Hotel hosts corporate meetings, presentations, private dinners, birthday parties and weddings, with up to 80 seated or 150 standing guests in its largest room. It is a pub, bar and restaurant at 186 High Street in Kew, an inner eastern suburb of Melbourne, Australia, set in the building of the former Kew Post Office, established in 1888.
Seminars and company events
Two rooms are set aside for functions, and both can be used for business. The Stamps Room on the ground floor takes corporate meetings and larger gatherings. The Q-Room upstairs suits smaller groups, such as a team presentation, a workshop or a client dinner. Packages combine catering, drinks and audiovisual equipment, so a meeting can run into lunch or evening drinks without changing venue. The building has three bars and six distinct spaces in all.
Weddings and receptions
The Stamps Room is the space offered for weddings and larger celebrations, with up to 80 guests at tables or 150 for a cocktail-style reception with canapés. Engagement parties, birthdays and smaller receptions can use the Q-Room, which holds 32 seated or 75 standing. Seated menus, canapé packages and beverage packages are put together with the events team.
Rooms and capacities
The Stamps Room, the larger of the two, occupies the original mail sorting room and keeps its gilded mirrors and a rustic fireplace: 80 seated, 150 cocktail. The Q-Room, upstairs, has iron fireplaces, black marble mantelpieces and a bay window in an irregular floor plan: 32 seated, 75 cocktail.
Catering
Food and drink come from the pub's own kitchen and bars. The everyday menu centers on pub classics, starters and sharing plates, and function packages range from canapés to seated meals, with drinks packages on top.
History and setting
The Kew Post Office opened in this building in 1888, and the pub keeps the period rooms, the fireplaces and the name of the original use. Today it is a neighborhood pub and dining room, with weekly specials and a Christmas Day lunch. The setting suits an informal company event, a long lunch or a relaxed wedding reception rather than a formal conference.
Getting there
Kew is about 6 kilometers east of the Melbourne central business district. High Street runs through the shopping strip near Kew Junction, which is served by trams and buses, and the Eastern Freeway passes close by. Melbourne Airport at Tullamarine is the main airport, roughly 30 to 40 minutes away by road outside peak hours. The venue has no accommodation, so guests from out of town stay in hotels in Kew, Hawthorn or the city.
