Murray Street is Angaston. The shops are on it, the bakery and the butcher are on it, the footpath runs the length of it, and both of the town's hotels sit along it — Barossa Brauhaus Hotel at number 41 and Angaston Hotel at number 59. Walk from one to the other and you have seen most of the commercial centre of the town on the way. For a visitor who has come for an evening at a gaming room, that compactness is the best thing about the place: park once, and your options are on foot.
The trouble is the name. Murray Street is not Angaston's alone. Nuriootpa has one, and it is Nuriootpa's main street too, with a hotel on it. Tanunda has one, also a main street, also with a hotel on it. Three towns, three main streets, one name, all within a quarter of an hour of each other on the valley floor — and a very common way to lose twenty minutes of an evening is to type a street and a venue type into a map app and let it choose.
So the single most useful line on this page is a boring one. When you are routing to a venue here, give the planner the number, the town and the postcode: 59 Murray Street, Angaston SA 5353, or 41 Murray Street, Angaston SA 5353. Not "Murray Street pub". Not "Murray Street Barossa". The number and the postcode between them remove every bit of the ambiguity, and it costs you four extra keystrokes.
Two numbers, two businesses, and the merge that keeps happening
Number 41 and number 59 are separate companies. Different owners, different kitchens, different phone numbers, different licences. They are both hotels, both list gaming among their services, and they are close enough that from outside one you are a couple of minutes' walk from the other.
Because they are so close and so similar in category, directories merge them. The symptom is always the same: one venue's name attached to the other's street number, or a single entry whose address and phone number belong to two different pubs. When that happens the listing describes a business that does not exist, and ringing the number gets you staff at a venue who cannot answer questions about the one you meant.
- 41 Murray Street
- Barossa Brauhaus Hotel — dining, bars, gaming, TAB, lotteries
- 59 Murray Street
- Angaston Hotel — dining, front bar, TAB, gaming machines, upstairs accommodation · 08 8564 2428
- Postcode for both
- 5353 — include it, and the Nuriootpa and Tanunda Murray Streets stop competing
- Distance between them
- A short walk along the same footpath
The fix is to decide which venue you want before you open the map, and then route to its number. If the booking confirmation in your inbox has a street number on it, that number is the thing to trust, not the name in the search box.
What the street is actually like
It is a country main street, which is to say it is slow by design and busier than it looks. Parking is kerbside and governed entirely by the signs on the day; we do not publish a space count and would not promise you one, because it depends on the hour, the day and whatever is happening in town. Reversing into a space while somebody waits behind you is part of the experience. So is the walk from the space to the right door, which is a few minutes that no navigation estimate includes, because a route planner's job finishes at a pin on the kerb.
Speeds through the town are low, and the approach roads drop sharply as they come in, which is worth knowing if you have estimated your arrival from a map. Most of the time on a Barossa trip goes in the slow parts, not the fast ones. In vintage season there is farm and harvest traffic on the roads between towns, and overtaking on a two-lane country road is not something to count on.
Access from the kerb is a question for the venue rather than for this page. Both buildings are old, both have more than one way in, and an accessible front bar establishes nothing about a dining room or a first floor. Name the entrance you intend to use and the facilities you need when you ring; the parking and accessibility page goes through the specific questions.
What being on the street does not tell you
Standing outside either hotel tells you the pub is there. It does not tell you the gaming area is open. Those are different timetables inside the same building — the bar has one, the kitchen has another that closes earlier, and the gaming room has a third that nobody publishes and that state law interrupts with a required daily closure. A lit front bar on a Saturday night is entirely compatible with machines sitting dark behind a shut door.
Nor does a sign reading "gaming" tell you what is in the room. It tells you the venue holds machines; it is not an inventory, and it carries no information about titles, denominations, how many cabinets are running, or whether the room is staffed tonight. The public gaming records held by Consumer and Business Services SA are about permissions, not floors — an entitlement entry is an administrative fact, and it will not tell you whether the game you drove for is switched on. If a specific title matters, give staff the full name including any suffix; manufacturer families share a name and not the feature rules. The feature glossary exists so you can ask for the right thing.
The best thing about the arrangement
Angaston's two-venues-one-street layout gives you something nowhere else in this guide's area does: a fallback on foot. If you reach number 59 and the gaming area has closed for the night, the other hotel is a short walk down the same footpath. In Nuriootpa or Tanunda a change of plan means getting back in the car, which — if the evening has included a drink with dinner — is not a change of plan at all, it is the end of the evening.
That is also the argument for parking in the middle of the street rather than outside a specific door. One legal space, read the sign, and both venues are a walk away. If the trip home is the open question, settle it before you leave: Angaston has no late-evening bus service to plan around, and the public transport page sets out what LinkSA's Route 1110 actually covers and when it stops.
Gaming areas in South Australian hotels are adults-only. Gambling carries a risk of financial loss and no outcome is guaranteed, and nothing on this page is a recommendation to play at either venue. If gambling is causing harm to you or someone close to you, Gambling Help Online is free and open at any hour on 1800 858 858.
Where these details come from
The address, telephone number and services for Angaston Hotel are from the hotel's own website, reviewed 10 October 2026. The street number and services for Barossa Brauhaus Hotel are from the South Australian Tourism Commission listing. Neither venue publishes a machine count or hours for its gaming area, and no figure has been substituted here. Parking on Murray Street is governed by the signage in place at the time; no capacity is published by anyone and none is claimed. Gaming machines in South Australia operate under the Gaming Machines Act 1992, with licensing and entitlement records held by Consumer and Business Services SA.