Where to eat and stay in Ballina

60 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Ballina, New South Wales — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

We hold 60 venues in Ballina — 36 places to eat and 24 to stay. That makes it the 42nd-largest of the 1903 towns and suburbs we cover in New South Wales, carrying 0% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 25% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. Ballina skews 5 points away from cafés and towards restaurants, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 9 cafés, 13 restaurants, 8 takeaways, 1 bars and 5 pubs.

19 of the 36 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are burger (3), coffee shop (2) and japanese (2). Relative to the rest of the country Ballina is unusually strong on burger — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 6 publish opening hours (10%) and 1 have outdoor seating. That trails the 17% national average — worth ringing ahead rather than trusting the listing.

For a bed, Ballina runs to 24 listings — 2 hotels, 16 motels and 6 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 67% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 40% 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 — Carnegie (60), Salisbury (61), Ferntree Gully (61) and Cronulla (59) — average 2% accommodation. Ballina runs at 40%, 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. No venue in Ballina yet carries the six recorded attributes needed for its own page, so 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 Ballina (9)

• Cafe Boker coffee shop · lebanese31-43 River Street
• The Belle General12 Shelly Beach Road
• Belle Central12 Wigmore Arcade
• Shelly Beach Cafe coffee shop1 Shelly Beach Road
• Proper Cafe95 Cherry Street
• The Beach Grill cafeCafés
• Latte LoungeCafés
• Green Coast CoffeeCafés
• Kin Local EateryCafés

Restaurants in Ballina (13)

• Che Bon Restaurant french37-41 Cherry Street
• Hey Lady Diner asian · japanese105 River Street
• Saltbush Bar & Grill local2 Martin Street
• Malibu Burgers burger97 River Street
• Wharf Bar & Restaurant Ballina12-24 Fawcett Street
• Beanz Salad Bar222 River Street
• Panda Noodles noodle216 River Street
• Raamons pizzaRestaurants
• Rakuu japanese208 River Street
• Thai By Night thai187 River Street
• Cafe Swish147 River Street
• La Cucina Di Vino italianRestaurants
• NoshRestaurants

Takeaways in Ballina (8)

• Taco Bell tex-mex95 Fox Street
• Chicken Mania chicken70 River Street
• Domino's pizzaTakeaways
• Hungry Jack's burger44 Pacific Highway
• KFC chickenTakeaways
• McDonald's burgerTakeaways
• Juice It Up juiceTakeaways
• Popeye's TakeawayTakeaways

Bars in Ballina (1)

• The Salt BarBars

Pubs in Ballina (5)

• Shaws Bay Hotel outdoor seating3 Brighton Street
• Ballina RSL1 Grant Street
• Ballina HotelPubs
• Herny Rous Tavern177 River Street
• Slipway Hotel56-58 River Street

Hotels in Ballina (2)

• Ramada Hotel & Suites2 Martin Street
• Ballina Manor Boutique Hotel25 Norton Street

Motels in Ballina (16)

• Almare Tourist Motel379 River Street
• Avlon Gardens Motel16 Bangalow Road
• Ballina Colonial Motel9 Bangalow Road
• Ballina Travellers Lodge36-38 Tamar Street
• Boardwalk Motel4 Kerr Street
• Richmond Motor Inn225-227 River Street
• Ballina Heritage Inn235-245 River Street
• Ballina Homestead Motel95 Cherry Street
• Ballina Palms Boutique Motel51 Owen Street
• Coast Inn MotelMotels
• Hi-Craft MotelMotels
• Slipway MotelMotels
• Ballina Byron Motor InnMotels
• Ballina Centrepoint MotelMotels
• Ballina MotelMotels
• Comfort InnMotels

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Ballina (6)

• Discovery Parks - Ballina25 Fenwick Drive
• Ballina Beach Village440 South Ballina Beach Road
• Reflections Ballina - Holiday Park1 River Street
• Reflections Shaws Bay - Holiday Park1 Brighton Street
• Ballina Rental Village126 Tamarind Drive
• Ballina Waterfront VillageRiver Street

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