Guinness on tap,local wines on the pour,a menu built on Riverina produce,and boutique accommodation to boot. If you’re ever looking for a pub to break up the drive between Sydney to Melbourne,this is the one.

The Sir George,however,is also a destination in its own right,the hotel standing proud near the Murrumbidgee River and housing a homewares store,beer garden,nursery and whisky lounge in addition to a kitchen that goes well beyond schnitzel (although there is a rather popular parmigiana).

Framed by ancient bricks and timber beams,the dining room is the kind of place where you want to eat pork sausage and white bean cassoulet,perhaps,or slow-cooked beef cheek sitting on a generous serve of colcannon and topped with frazzled leek. Pork cotoletta is underlined by pulpy tomato sauce and whipped ricotta;dessert is a buttery wodge of rhubarb and apple pie. Now,this is country living.

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