Where to eat and stay in Ararat

27 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Ararat, Victoria — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

We hold 27 venues in Ararat — 18 places to eat and 9 to stay. That makes it the 139th-largest of the 1221 towns and suburbs we cover in Victoria, carrying 0% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 33% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Ararat eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 6 cafés, 4 restaurants, 4 takeaways and 4 pubs.

6 of the 18 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are chicken (2), burger (1) and coffee shop (1). None of them is far out of line with the national picture; the mix here is broad rather than specialised.

On the practical detail: 2 publish opening hours (7%) and 1 have outdoor seating. That trails the 17% national average — worth ringing ahead rather than trusting the listing.

For a bed, Ararat runs to 9 listings — 1 hotels, 4 motels, 1 serviced apartments and 3 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 44% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 33% of everything mapped here, well above the 25% national share — the signature of a place that hosts more visitors than it has residents.

Places of a similar size — Haymarket (27), Berry (27), Lord Howe Island (27) and Epping (27) — average 26% accommodation. Ararat runs at 33%, noticeably more, which is what a place that takes in visitors looks like.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 1 of the 27 venues in Ararat carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

Cafés in Ararat (6)

• Foragers Cafe outdoor seatingCafés
• Pie Face coffee shopCafés
• Fred & Bet'sCafés
• Sede CafeCafés
• Sicilians Cafe & BarCafés
• VinesCafés

Restaurants in Ararat (4)

• Ararat Noodle Bar noodleRestaurants
• Desi Swag indianRestaurants
• Ampol RoadhouseRestaurants
• Indian CuisineRestaurants

Takeaways in Ararat (4)

• Tastybird chicken212 Barkly Street
• KFC chickenTakeaways
• McDonald's burgerTakeaways
• Main StreetTakeaways

Pubs in Ararat (4)

• Blue Duck HotelPubs
• Ararat HotelPubs
• Central HotelPubs
• Leopold HotelPubs

Hotels in Ararat (1)

• Mess and BarracksHotels

Motels in Ararat (4)

• Ararat Central Motel249 Barkly Street
• Ararat Colonial Lodge MotelMotels
• Ararat Orchid City Motor InnMotels
• Statesman Motor InnMotels

Serviced apartments in Ararat (1)

• Bricks & Roses6 McGibbony Street

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Ararat (3)

• Acacia Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Green Hill Lake ReserveHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Pyrenees Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds

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