We are family owned and operated by Sunshine Coast Hotels Pty Ltd. With its stunning lakeside location and beautiful waterfront views of Brightwater Lake, Brightwater Hotel provides a wide range of entertainment and leisure facilities for the whole family and is regarded as one of the best pubs on the Sunshine Coast.
Our menus feature a wide selection of meals to suit everyone, along with a great range of craft and international beers on tap and an exclusive wine list. We cater for a wide range of corporate functions, private parties and weddings. With 4 separate waterfront spaces on offer, great packages to choose from and no venue hire, Brightwater Hotel is the best function venue on the Sunshine Coast delivering a host of options for your next function.
Our menus feature a wide selection of meals to suit everyone, along with a great range of craft and international beers on tap and an exclusive wine list. We cater for a wide range of corporate functions, private parties and weddings. With 4 separate waterfront spaces on offer, great packages to choose from and no venue hire, Brightwater Hotel is the best function venue on the Sunshine Coast delivering a host of options for your next function.
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Featuring 17 taps with 15 beers including 3 local craft beers, local 10 Toes Ginger Beer and CC & Dry along with a great new Sports Bar Menu available all day. Watch all your favourite sports televised live and loud on our 15 metre video wall and full surround sound. Our Super Saturday promotion runs every Saturday from 12 noon with raffles, drink ticket draws & complimentary finger food.
As a locally owned and operated independent hotel group, we strive to support and encourage local independent businesses like ourselves wherever possible. We are excited to introduce some new products and suppliers with this season's new menu.
Offering guests a warm, family friendly Sunshine Coast dining experience, Brightwater Hotel provides a wide range of fresh seafood dishes, MSA-grade steaks and classic pub meals like pizza, pasta and schnitzel.A variety of desserts are also on offer to indulge in or share.
Offering guests a warm, family friendly Sunshine Coast dining experience, Brightwater Hotel provides a wide range of fresh seafood dishes, MSA-grade steaks and classic pub meals like pizza, pasta and schnitzel.A variety of desserts are also on offer to indulge in or share.
With three separate waterfront spaces on offer and a private function space called Pontoon, Brightwater Hotel is the perfect function venue on the Sunshine Coast delivering a host of options for your next function. Equally stunning for a morning or lunch time event or an evening soiree with gas torchlight and the backdrop of lush tropical gardens.
We really enjoy being part of the local Brightwater and surrounding communities. We are a member of the Kawana Chamber of Commerce and proudly support Brightwater State School, USC Rugby Club, USC Thunder and the Sunshine Coast Turf Club. Our Locker Room Lunches have featured special guests, such as Merv Hughes, Greg Chappell, Andrew Mehrtens, Tim Horan, Jeff Thomson, Kim Hughes, Greg Ritchie, Alastair Lynch & Sam Kekovich.
Our Stars Gaming Lounge offers 30 of the latest gaming machines in all denominations, including the latest games such as Dollar Storm, Dragon Link and Lightning Link machines. Play in a fully cashless gaming environment. We have a designated smoking area available, as well as extensive underground car parking.
Reviews (10)
Val Coburn
Dec 22, 2021
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Shirley Kemlo
Dec 09, 2021
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We regularly dine at Brightwater Tavern with friends and family but recently the menu changed but not for the better. Not sure if there is a new Chef/Cook but my past 3 dine in experiences have been well below average. Mooloolaba prawns with squid ink pasta. The prawns were tiny..more like shrimps..black ink pasta tasted salty and was inedible. I was told by the Hotel Manager 2 weeks previous the dish served with authentic Mooloolaba prawns and spaghetti 'which was superb' had been replaced. He offered me another meal "at my own expense" and they could put my "Ink" meal in a takeaway container
Jeff DeMaria
Oct 20, 2021
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Kell M.
Oct 18, 2021
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Kirk Nicholson
Sep 26, 2021
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Vicki Pickett
Sep 22, 2021
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A great pub on the lake at Brightwater so clean an bright with a great atmosphere. Good deck bistro and kids room very kid friendly. Staff are so attentive and friendly. Fantastic selection for drinks. Seniors and kids menu and lunch menu $15.. you might think only 4 stars after saying such good things but I had the panko crumbed fish and chips and it was awful. Dry frozen fillets with average chips and a rocket salad. Other meals that came out from the kitchen looked good but I couldn’t even eat mine. John loved his meal I have maybe just ordered the wrong thing but when it said panko fillets
Michael B.
Sep 07, 2021
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Troy R.
Jun 21, 2021
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The view is good and the food was delicious.
This was my first time eating here and it won’t be my last. 4 adults and 2 kids had dinner Sunday night. Kids eat free on Sundays, so that’s fantastic!
We had a minor issue with our order and someone (maybe the manager) came to our table and sorted it out promptly and without any drama.
The only food complaint I have is definitely a complaint you wouldn’t get elsewhere, there was actually too much chicken and not enough pasta in my meal. Just kidding, but there was so much in the dish, it was delicious!
My real complaint and why I didn’t
This was my first time eating here and it won’t be my last. 4 adults and 2 kids had dinner Sunday night. Kids eat free on Sundays, so that’s fantastic!
We had a minor issue with our order and someone (maybe the manager) came to our table and sorted it out promptly and without any drama.
The only food complaint I have is definitely a complaint you wouldn’t get elsewhere, there was actually too much chicken and not enough pasta in my meal. Just kidding, but there was so much in the dish, it was delicious!
My real complaint and why I didn’t
Glenn Rasmussen
Feb 09, 2021
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Angela McCarthy
Dec 11, 2020
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I really enjoyed my time here. It was a little on the expensive side for meals, but for the most part they are well prepared.
My two criticisms from my dine in experience was that my pork wasn't cooked well enough, the skin was very rubbery in the center but the edges were crackled perfectly - I would have loved to have seen this across the whole skin. Dining in was very very busy, so I'm assuming that this was simply because the chef was rushed with the peak hour dining in. The other issue was with drinks, it took me three times for my drink order to be done correctly. I usually request no ice
My two criticisms from my dine in experience was that my pork wasn't cooked well enough, the skin was very rubbery in the center but the edges were crackled perfectly - I would have loved to have seen this across the whole skin. Dining in was very very busy, so I'm assuming that this was simply because the chef was rushed with the peak hour dining in. The other issue was with drinks, it took me three times for my drink order to be done correctly. I usually request no ice
