PORT ANCHOR HOTEL

The Port Anchor Hotel is popular for its great value meals and good service.

Try our tender steaks or chef’s special salt & pepper squid!

Self service salad bar with hot vegies.


Gaming room with jackpot club.

Open 7 days for lunch and dinner.

The hotel was established as the Kent Hotel by James Thomas Russell in 1876 . The popular watering hole became the meeting place for members of the Kentdale Sporting Club in the 1900s. No doubt vigorous discussions took place on sporting events of the day!


Folklore of the Pub
Local legend has it that during the early 1900’s a group of women found this hotel to be very conveniently located.  Unable to leave their homes for long, it seems, they would purchase a jug of beer from the local Kent Hotel. As they made their way back along the street,  with jug in tow, there were pauses for chats, no doubt sharing a drink or two along the way. So Cannon Street earned the name ‘Jug and Gossip Street’. Courtesy Port Adelaide Heritage Pub map

The hotel’s exterior was modernised to an ‘Art Deco’style in the 1940’s.


The Port Anchor Hotel still retains its good old fashioned service.

15 Church Place, (off St Vincents Street) Port Adelaide
Phone (08) 8447 5233
Email portanchor@bigpond.com