Where to eat and stay in Forbes

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

We hold 28 venues in Forbes — 17 places to eat and 11 to stay. That makes it the 131st-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, 18% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. Forbes skews 12 points away from cafés and towards restaurants, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 3 cafés, 5 restaurants, 5 takeaways and 4 pubs.

9 of the 17 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are chinese (3), pizza (2) and burger (1). Relative to the rest of the country Forbes is unusually strong on chinese — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 3 publish opening hours (11%) and 1 have outdoor seating. That is about the national average of 17%.

For a bed, Forbes runs to 11 listings — 6 motels and 5 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 55% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 39% 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 — Ryde (28), Woolgoolga (28), Ulladulla (28) and Narrabeen (28) — average 21% accommodation. Forbes runs at 39%, 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 Forbes 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 Forbes (3)

• The Pitt Stop outdoor seatingCafés
• Wild Bean Cafe coffee shopCafés
• Pantry Cafe & CateringCafés

Restaurants in Forbes (5)

• Chimelong Kitchen chinese86 Lachlan Street
• Wan Wah Chinese Restaurant chineseRestaurants
• Forbes Garden chineseRestaurants
• The Heritage BistroRestaurants
• Café Aglio & OlioRestaurants

Takeaways in Forbes (5)

• Domino's pizzaTakeaways
• McDonald's burgerTakeaways
• Subway sandwichTakeaways
• Forbes Pizza House pizzaTakeaways
• KFC chickenTakeaways

Pubs in Forbes (4)

• Commercial Hotel53 Rankin Street
• Globe HotelPubs
• Post Office HotelPubs
• Vandenberg HotelPubs

Motels in Forbes (6)

• EconoLodge Ben Hall Motor Inn5 Cross Street
• Forbes Victoria Inn8-12 Sherriff Street
• Lake Forbes MotelMotels
• Motel AdrianMotels
• The PlainsmanMotels
• Town & Country Motor InnMotels

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Forbes (5)

• Forbes Apex Riverside Tourist Park88 Reymond Street
• Forbes Holiday ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Forbes Lions ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Forbes Rest AreaHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Forbes River Meadows Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds

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