Where to eat and stay in Cowes

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

We hold 81 venues in Cowes — 61 places to eat and 20 to stay. That makes it the 15th-largest of the 1221 towns and suburbs we cover in Victoria, carrying 0% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 34% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. Cowes is 4 points more café-heavy than the country as a whole, which usually points to daytime and weekend trade rather than an evening dining scene. The full split is 21 cafés, 25 restaurants, 12 takeaways, 2 bars and 1 pubs.

26 of the 61 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are fish and chips (7), italian (5) and sandwich (3). Relative to the rest of the country Cowes is unusually strong on fish and chips, italian and sandwich — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 20 publish opening hours (25%), 11 are recorded as step-free, 14 have outdoor seating and 8 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 17% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Cowes runs to 20 listings — 1 hotels, 4 motels, 1 b&bs and guest houses, 7 serviced apartments and 7 holiday parks and campgrounds. Serviced apartments dominate, at 35% of the town's accommodation.

Places of a similar size — Caboolture (81), Wodonga (81), The Settlement (82) and Redland City (80) — average 31% accommodation. Cowes runs at 25%, much the same, so on this measure it behaves like its peers.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 6 of the 81 venues in Cowes 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 Cowes (21)

• G'Day Tiger outdoor seating34-38 Thompson Avenue
• The Island Food Store outdoor seating75 Chapel Street
• Mod Eisley Cantina outdoor seating130-132 Thompson Avenue
• Ânerie General outdoor seating1 Honeysuckle Grove
• Cafe Biscotti step-free · vegetarian92 Thompson Avenue
• Cafe Lugano71 Thompson Avenue
• Fork and Waffle113B Thompson Avenue
• Waterboy Cafe58 Chapel Street
• Island Coffee CornerCafés
• Island Whole Foods75 Chapel Street
• M & OCafés
• The Boatramp Cafe coffee shop · sandwich · outdoor seatingCafés
• The Jetty sandwich · ice creamCafés
• Blue BambooCafés
• Cafe Baazar158 Thompson Avenue
• Ember & OakCafés
• Isola Gelateria outdoor seatingCafés
• Mon DiueCafés
• Penny Lane18-22 Thompson Avenue
• Phillip Island Coffee Co29 Thompson Avenue
• The Island NookCafés

Restaurants in Cowes (25)

• La Porchetta seafood · coffee shop · outdoor seating · step-free · vegetarian68-80 Thompson Avenue
• Kristos fish and chips · greek · outdoor seating · step-free15 The Esplanade
• Sambreros tex-mex145 Thompson Avenue
• Isola Di Capri italian · outdoor seating2 Thompson Avenue
• North Pier Hotel step-free · vegetarianRestaurants
• Phillip Island Winery outdoor seating414 Berrys Beach Road
• Wing Ho Chinese Food chinese · vegetarian81 Thompson Avenue
• Cowes Curry Club119-135 Thompson Avenue
• Thai on the Island thai34-38 Thompson Avenue
• The Corner burger · outdoor seating69 Thompson Avenue
• Bani's10 Thompson Avenue
• Fig And Olive Steakhouse115 Thompson Avenue
• Gullivers Eatery outdoor seating62-66 Thompson Avenue
• The Lost Cowe15 The Esplanade
• Wing Lock chinese8 Thompson Avenue
• Beach HQRestaurants
• Chapel Lane step-free72 Chapel Street
• Hotel Phillip Island outdoor seatingRestaurants
• Pika' Sushi sushi · outdoor seatingRestaurants
• Kim's43 Thompson Avenue
• Pino's italianRestaurants
• Pino's Trattori italianRestaurants
• Roasa's Piazza italianRestaurants
• Bedrock Family RestaurantRestaurants

Takeaways in Cowes (12)

• Xpress Pizza pizza · step-free · vegetarian72 Chapel Street
• Youki's japanese · step-free · vegetarian68-80 Thompson Avenue
• C.C's Fish & Chips fish and chips · step-free · vegetarian96-100 Thompson Avenue
• Subway sandwichTakeaways
• Fishermans Wharf fish and chips15 The Esplanade
• Fortuna Noodles noodle · step-free · vegetarian96-100 Thompson Avenue
• Jessies Pizza pizzaTakeaways
• Golden Fish & Chips fish and chips15 The Esplanade
• Nat's Fish and Chips fish and chips16 Thompson Avenue
• Smootheart juice18-22 Thompson Avenue
• Anchor Belle Fish N Chips fish and chipsTakeaways
• Cowes General Store fish and chipsTakeaways

Bars in Cowes (2)

• AnerieBars
• Bar & BistroBars

Pubs in Cowes (1)

• Ocean Reach47 Thompson Avenue

Hotels in Cowes (1)

• Island Breeze Resort13-15 McHaffie Drive

Motels in Cowes (4)

• Coachman Motel step-free51 Chapel Street
• Arthur Phillip Motor Inn2-12 Redwood Drive
• Seahorse Motel step-freeMotels
• Tropicana Motor InnMotels

B&Bs and guest houses in Cowes (1)

• Woodbyne CottagesB&Bs and guest houses

Serviced apartments in Cowes (7)

• Phillip Island Apartments9-11 Bass Avenue
• C-Scape Apartments4 The Esplanade
• Oceanic Apartments146 Thompson Avenue
• Phillip Island Towers59 Chapel Street
• The Avenue Apartments204 Thompson Avenue
• The Waves ApartmentsServiced apartments
• Oswin Roberts CottageServiced apartments

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Cowes (7)

• Anchor Belle Holiday Park Cowes272 Church Street
• Beach Park Tourist Caravan Park Phillip Island2 Mckenzie Road
• Phillip Island Beachfront Holiday Park164 Church Street
• Amaroo Holiday ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Anchorage Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Bushy Park Tourist ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Seaview Holiday ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds

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