Grand Junction in Maitland, New South Wales | Bar

Grand Junction

Locality: Maitland, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4933 5242

Address: 88 Church St 2320 Maitland, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.grandjunkyard.com/

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25.01.2022 CHEAP COCKTAIL FRIDAYS Don’t forget we have $15 cocktail jugs 6-8pm Friday nights Sex on the Beach // Sangria // Passionfruit Caprioska // Margarita // Mojito // Pink Lemonade Vodka

24.01.2022 What a stunning last gasp of winter for an afternoon of soaking up the rays and live music of Kingsley James and a version of Magpie Diaries in the Junkyard beer garden. It is a privilege to be alive.

23.01.2022 A new era of cuisine for Maitland kicks off at the Junkyard this Wednesday. The place is buzzing to have Winnies as part of the family. Talk about taking a tired old local pub dining scene and stirring it up with something authentically fresh and exciting. Jamaican me hungry!

23.01.2022 Our lovely Kiera has whipped up a mean Thai Beef Salad for you all this weekend You’ll find it on the specials board this weekend // $18

23.01.2022 The Junkyard beer garden will swell with the golden sounds of Brock Henry and Ben McCauley tomorrow from 3.30pm for the latest instalment of Your Sunday Best. $15 jugs of beer all day and top-shelf tunes in the sunshine. How could you go wrong?

23.01.2022 HAPPY EASTER JUNKYARD Zoe K will be playing in the beer garden from 4pm today We also have $15 beer jugs all afternoon

21.01.2022 The radar tells us the rain is going around us this arvo so the latest edition of Your Sunday Best in the Junkyard beer garden is definitely on from 3.30pm. A spot of moisture was never going to deter these two absolute glamours, Alice Williams and Zoe K, from putting on a spectacular gig with a little help from a cast of very special guests including Gleny Rae, Kate Oliver and Emily Smith. Serious chops, these ladies, making this a show not to be missed. See you all down here.

21.01.2022 Due to it being an absolute bludger of a day - 44 degrees and so Yothu Yindi it's blowing dogs off chains - we've pushed this arvo's music back to 5pm in the beer garden instead of the usual 3.30pm kick-off. You'll no doubt be hotter than a blue movie and tonguing for a drink by then. And who better to summon the southerly change than this God of the Junkyard, the great Todd ''Teejy'' Johnston, who's been around the block a time or two and really knows his stuff. Look at this photo. Now there's a bloke you can trust to do you right. See you down here legends.

20.01.2022 https://fb.me/e/1kAxm8Uy0 This arvo. About to start. Pop rock mastery.

19.01.2022 Sunday afternoon get yourself to the Junkyard in Maitland. I’ll be kicking off the afternoon playing an original set and then jumping up with the beautiful and talented Katie Brianna, playing songs you know and some you don’t know. Show kicks off at 4pm. Katie Garfie

19.01.2022 An intergenerational collision of musical comets will be visible in the sky directly above the Junkyard from about 3.30pm this arvo when the evergreen lawmaker Gleny Rae and the hot young gunslinger Billy Black team up for the latest instalment of Your Sunday Best in the beer garden. Gleny Rae, player of several instruments obscenely well, gorgeous singer and talented writer of songs. Billy Black, guitar picker of the highest order, man out front for Doc and the Delegates, th...e cooking bluegrass throwbacks who quickly became Junko favourites. It's a bit Yothu Yindi this morning but the only extreme weather later on will be generated by this dynamite duo and their cyclonic meeting of musical minds. We'll keep you warm, lubricated and entertained with heaters pumping outside and $15 jugs of beer from 12pm to 6pm. Bistro open for lunch and dinner. Warriors v Bulldogs and Knights v Cowboys on the idiot boxes. Plenty of good banter about COVID and how she be blowing off the Barrington snow cold as a witch's tit. See more

18.01.2022 8 tickets left for the Kinder show this Friday night! https://events.humanitix.com/kinder

18.01.2022 We've locked in the next round of performers for Your Sunday Best at the Junkyard and what a bunch of balltearers they are. This Sunday, August 30 we will swoon to the honeyed sounds of Matt and Jess Johnston from Magpie Diaries with some way groovy special guests. You have to be steamy lovers to make music this gorgeous. They are. The following Sunday, September 6 we're giving all the daddies out there a Father's Day present from the top shelf in the nurturing form of the Pa...pa Bear himself, the human jukebox, the mighty force Ngariki. We recommend you book a table for lunch and settle in for the gig with the family. Then on Sunday, September 13 we have a rare solo performance from one of the most consistently compelling and mesmerising guitarists of all time, not just here but anywhere, Nick Raschke. From his days in the band of bands, The Slots, to Junko mainstays Milestones, Nick has been blowing minds with his incendiary playing from another planet. The series of cover songs he did during COVID lockdown went viral around the world and he might pull some of them out if you ask sweetly. All gigs start at 3.30pm in the beer garden. Bistro open for lunch and dinner and $15 jugs of beer all day. In these strange music-starved times we strongly recommend you get your mob together and book a table to avoid disappointment. See more

17.01.2022 Tonight’s NYE event is SOLD OUT For those of you with tickets - doors open at 6pm and the beers will be flowing until 1am For those of you that missed out - we will reopen on the 2nd Jan and look forward to seeing you all in the new year. ... From all of us at the Grandy - we wish you a Happy New Year and thank you for all of the support you have shown us this year

17.01.2022 There has been no more influential figure in the Junkyard's storied musical history than Johnny Green. He is the foundation stone, the steady hand, the fire that never goes out. Today, from 3.30pm under the glorious May sunshine in the beer garden, the godfather returns from his Far North Queensland digs, leaving behind the good fishing and temperate climate more suitable to a wise old goanna ageing gracefully, for a very special show with his beautiful ratbag son and keeper ...of the flame, Hank, and their slick outfit The Hot Ones. Johnny and Hank have always been more than just musicians to us - they are family. To have them back together, playing together, at the scene of so many unforgettable moments in our lives is a bloody joy. We can't wait to see all the old friendly faces who have lived it with us and to hear the old master and the young buck show everyone how the real voodoo practitioners weave their magic spells. If you miss this one you need your head read. See more

16.01.2022 Two beloved children of the Junkyard, sass machine Zoe K and her six-string champion Wil Gjisbers, are home for a dynamite Christmas edition of Your Sunday Best in the beer garden from 3.30 this arvo. Though it seems like only yesterday these wonderful musical talents took off on the long and winding road, the years just flow by like a broken down dam. Ain't that the truth. The older we get the more conscious we become of how special it is to have the kids home and all the family together at Christmas. The new beer garden bar opens today too which is the most significant and highly anticipated development in Maitland since Sizzler opened in 1989.

16.01.2022 Our lovely Kiera has whipped up a mean Thai Beef Salad for you all this weekend You’ll find it on the specials board this weekend // $18

15.01.2022 Tickets selling fast for the hottest NYE party in the Land of Mates. They're being snapped up in groups. Get one before they're all gone.

14.01.2022 HAPPY HOUR Grab a schooner of any of our beers/cider on tap for only $4 between 4-6pm Monday to Friday

14.01.2022 Crooning dreamboat James Thomson will be joined by silver fox Marty Burke for a couple of sets of the real good stuff in the Junkyard beer garden on Sunday arvo from 3.30pm. The weatherman, Brian Bury, is tipping sweet summer sunshine and the tucker forecast out of the Winnie's Caribbean kitchen is mouth-watering with a high chance of absolute deliciousness. Earliest in get the best tables and tanning positions.

14.01.2022 JUNKYARD’S MAY GIG GUIDE

14.01.2022 If you’re anything like us and think that there is nothing better than a cold Coopers on a hot day, you’re in luck!! Jugs of Coopers are only $15 for the rest of November

13.01.2022 Merry Christmas Junkyard family. To celebrate let's get pissed together this evening with DJ Jakesy Hussle spinning all the platters that matter then back up again on Sunday arvo from 3.30pm with human jukebox Ngariki belting out every great song ever written. Love you legends. Truly we do. You make this grand old pub the magic watering hole it is.

12.01.2022 YOU AIN’T EVER Pricey and Mughead are bringing their ‘You Ain’t Ever’ tour to our very own beer garden this Sunday 18th April This is not one you want to miss!! Tickets are for sale via the link below ... https://events.humanitix.com/pricey-and-mughead

11.01.2022 Word is spreading like wildfire about the mouth-watering tucker coming out of the Winnie's Jamaican kitchen at the Junkyard. If you haven't cottoned on yet you should definitely get a group of mates together and come down for the special four-course feast we'll be hosting on April 20. A bit of this, a bit of that, a bit of the other and you're laughing. If you're already a convert you're no doubt onto this like a rat up a drainpipe. Good company, delicious grub and plenty of syrup in an old-school local where you're always welcome. Get amongst it legends.

11.01.2022 Sadly we have had to postpone the latest instalment of Your Sunday Best featuring Bodie Sauceman in the beer garden this arvo. Bloody rain. It’s a pain in the arse, but in the immortal words of Tony Soprano, whaddayagonnado. I tellayawhaddayagonnado, you gonna suck it up, put a suitable parka on and head down anyway for $15 jugs of beer, a delicious countery, footy on the idiot box and a yarn with the locals. See you down here.

11.01.2022 We here at the Junkyard are as amped as a stoned surfie making sweet salty love to a blonde bombshell in the back of a decked Sandman panelvan after an endless summer session taming perfect crystal cylinders. And that’s about as amped as you can get, ladies and gentlemen. The reason for our peak ampage is simple - we have locked in a monster New Year’s Eve line-up that will go down in history as one of the greats in our long and storied December 31 tradition. Kingsley James, ...Autumn Hearts, Lachlan X Morris, Fish Fry and Pow Wow. Put that in your sheesha and smoke it. A quiver of Junkyard favourites kicking out the jams from 6pm in the beer garden and the good times will roll until 2am. Tickets are $50 and strictly limited due to the current restrictions. Every NYE bash at the Junko has sold out over the past decade. Every single one of them has been a glorious triumph. Get your crew together and you’ve basically got platinum box seats to your own private music festival. Don’t be the dork outside knockin’ while the Sandman’s rockin’. https://events.humanitix.com/new-year-s-eve-at-the-junkyard

09.01.2022 We're unveiling a new menu at the Junkyard today featuring all your old favourites and some fresh new additions to get your bellies rumbling and tastebuds salivating. Plenty of vegan and gluten-free options and affordable tasty grub for the kids. This is the sort of menu that will appeal to the countless people who can be heard muttering ''there's way too much wank on pub menus these days, I just want an honest pub feed that doesn't break the bank, the sort of tucker that put...s a smile on your dial, fills you up without making you feel like a bloated slug and sets you up beautifully for a good session on the drink''. Tables available for lunch and dinner in the beer garden and dining room. And if you're a classicist who prefers to devour an old-fashioned countery at the bar while talking nonsense with the locals and power sinking a few schooners before heading back to work with a good glow up for an arvo Edgar Britt on the boss's time, we've got you sorted too. See more

09.01.2022 THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL: Chicken and Bacon Pot Pie w/ beer battered chips // $16 Starts tonight

09.01.2022 Emily A. Smith and Katie Brianna, two powerhouse performers, will weave their magic on blessed Junkyard punters in the beer garden this afternoon for the latest instalment of Your Sunday Best. It's hard to imagine a better late-spring day for a slurp and some live music in the glorious sunshine. $15 beer jugs all day. Gig starts 3.30pm. First in get the best tables.

09.01.2022 Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by these inn...ocent children. Now, you're probably wondering why I'm trotting out this passage from the great Frog author Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables. I'll tell you why. This is what the old cheese-eating surrender monkey uttered when the kids told him they were bringing him down the Junkyard today and shouting him a slap-up feed and all the piss he can drink for Father's Day. ''Even the $37 mixed grill with a 200g rump, two lamb loin chops, a sausage, bacon, egg and roast tomato served with chips?'' Jean asked his progeny, his focus trained on his notoriously judgmental teenage vegan daughter Antoinette, usually militant in her loathing for carnivores. ''Even the mixed grill,'' she replied, rolling her healthy doe eyes but her lips betraying the hint of a loving smile for her totes embarrassing sire. ''And can I have the $15 hickory chicken wings for a starter and the $17 pork roast if I'm still hungry after the mixed grill?'' Jean inquired. To which les infants replied: ''Dad, it's Father's Day. You can do whatever you want.'' Jean Valjean scratched his stubbled chin and a look of mischief entered his eyes. ''Can I get pissed and soil myself?'' he asked, pulling the fruits of his seed in tight for a bearhug and noting with great joy that on this special day they never flinched or rushed to pull away. ''Yes Dad,'' they droned good-naturedly. ''It's Father's Day. You can get pissed and soil yourself. One of us will drive.'' The moral of the story is simple. Good fathers are to be honoured today. Good fathers can do whatever they want today and still be in the good books. There is no better place to spend Father's Day than the sunkissed Junkyard beer garden, telling shocking Dad jokes (a cheese factory exploded in France - da brie is everywhere!), sinking schooners, munging on a classic pub feed (I recommend the special monster mixed grill, a proper naughty daddy indulgence) then kicking back from 3.30pm and getting pleasantly sauced while listening to the human jukebox Ngariki. Then, on the way home in your chauffeured vehicle, you can drop your guts with terrible force and pungent stench and no one can do a single thing about it. You know why? Because it's Father's Day. See more

08.01.2022 The latest instalment of Your Sunday Best will feature the considerable talents of Bodie Sauceman this week. Bodie is one of those blessed buggers who make you a bit crook to be honest. Not only is he a dynamite drummer, he plays a mean guitar, writes great songs and is touched by a bit of the Al Green when it comes to his sweet and soulful vocals. All in all the perfect Sunday soundtrack in the springtime sunshine out in the beer garden. Gig starts at 3.30pm and as always in these live-music-starved times we suggest you get in nice and early to secure a prime table. Bistro open for lunch and dinner and $15 jugs of beer all day. You wouldn't be lemon spread for quids.

08.01.2022 We've got one of the great double bills coming up this Sunday in the Junkyard beer garden from 3.30pm. Top-shelf troubadours CJ Stranger and Sam Newton will make all your worries dissolve. If you could bottle that magic feeling you get whlile kicking back on a rickety old veranda in the bush, up the piss with your mates, singing classics in the summer twilight without a care in the world, these blokes are the master brewers. The Caribbean delights of our new restaurant, Winnie's, have been going down a treat since their grand opening last week. This tucker is seriously addictive. You might as well give it a whirl and catch CJ and Sam while you're at it. Bring the family. See you down here legends.

08.01.2022 Old golden tonsils Andy Abra and some extraordinary special guests take centre stage for this week's instalment of Your Sunday Best at the Junkyard. Music lovers are no doubt as toey as a Roman sandal after the rain pissed all over Bodie Sauceman's sweet parade last week. Bummer Bodie, but never fear, we'll plan another one. The conditions have been awfully Yothu Yindi pretty much ever since, deadset blowing dogs off chains, sending otherwise sane people troppo, but the great... Brian Bury assures us the Sabbath will be warm and sunny with the faintest spring zephyrs caressing our unleashed guns which are, quite frankly, desperate for a natural injection of vitamin D straight from the source. Sun's out, guns out in the beer garden. Gig starts at 3.30pm. If you haven't heard Andy before, the man is more Johnny Cash than Joaquin Phoenix could ever dream of being in his wildest wet one. $15 jugs of beer all day. Footy on the idiot boxes inside. See you down here legends. See more

08.01.2022 CHEAP COCKTAIL FRIDAYS Don’t forget we have $15 cocktail jugs 6-8pm Friday nights Sex on the Beach // Sangria // Passionfruit Caprioska // Margarita // Mojito // Pink Lemonade Vodka

07.01.2022 Strap yourselves in for one of the great spring afternoons, ladies and gentlemen. The Junkyard beer garden will echo to the otherworldly sounds of one of the most consistently compelling and mesmerising guitarists of all time, Nick Raschke. From his early days in the band of bands, The Slots, to Junko mainstays Milestones, Nick has been blowing minds with his incendiary playing from another planet. The series of cover songs he did during COVID lockdown went viral around the w...orld and he might pull some of them out if you ask sweetly. Nick will be backed by Milestones mates Steve Morton on drums and Teej Johnston on bass in trio mode. Gig starts at 3.30pm and with Brian Bury forecasting 26 degrees and sunny we strongly suggest you get in nice and early to secure a prime table. Bistro open for lunch and dinner and $15 jugs of beer all day. You wouldn't be brown bread for quids. See more

06.01.2022 THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL: Chicken and Bacon Pot Pie w/ beer battered chips // $16 Starts tonight

06.01.2022 Reasons to head to the Junkyard today for Father's Day: $37 special monster mixed grill, $17 pork roast, $15 hickory chicken wings, $15 beer jugs all day, human jukebox Ngariki playing all the classics in the Hunter's best beer garden from 3.30pm, footy on the idiot boxes inside, strict no-dickhead policy unless you're a super cool dad telling slightly dickheady and daggy dad jokes. So it's settled then.

05.01.2022 Sadly we have had to postpone the latest edition of Your Sunday Best this arvo in the beer garden due to it pissing down and the overwhelming prospect of it continuing to piss down. Never fear, Lyle Dennis and Mick Daley will be rescheduled in the coming weeks so we'll all get to hear the new tunes these titans of booze-soaked country rock'n'roll have been collaborating on. Our attention now turns to the idiot box for the NRL decider between upstarts Penrith and old dogs Melb...ourne. Can the Panthers, the best team all year, go the whole hog and withstand what is guaranteed to be a full rectal examination without lubricant or gloves from the heavyweight Storm who have been there, done that and have a habit of peaking when their rivals are coming down and desperate to leave the rave? Will the greatest player to ever lace on a boot, Cameron Smith, referee the mountain men out of the contest, lead the Storm to victory with his unmatched bag of magic tricks then announce he has no intention of retiring until he's 60? Maybe the king of the chicken wing, creator of the crusher and inventor of the double-fisted ear scrub (a savage move featured in the accompanying photograph) will brazenly go full unapologetic grub and get Nathan Cleary in a Camel Clutch, piledriver or figure-four leg lock, safe in the knowledge he possesses the whistle and would never send himself off in a trial game against the Warriors in Orange, let alone a grand final. All will be revealed. The women's big dance between the Roosters and Broncos kicks off proceedings around 4pm. Nothing gets the blood pumping faster than unhinged chicks with incredibly silky footy skills bashing the shit out of each other. $15 jugs of beer all day and bistro open for lunch and dinner. See you down here legends. See more

04.01.2022 EASTER THURSDAY We’ve got DJ Jakesy Hustle in the beer garden this Thursday night to kick off your long weekend Come and have a boogie with us ... Tunes from 7pm - 10:30pm and Winnies serving up the goods

04.01.2022 There are some exciting developments afoot at the Junkyard. The original shed in the beer garden is close to opening as a fully functioning bar which will bring a little slice of Hawaiian tropical resort to our humble patch of the Coalfields. We will also be unveiling a brand new restaurant in 2021 and the lucky punters who snap up the limited tickets to our massive New Year's Eve party will get first taste. We'll be making a full announcement in the coming weeks, but what we... can tell you without fear of contradiction is that we're joining forces with respected operators who have a proven track record in a mouth-watering style of food, something a bit out of the box that will be a first for Maitland. We're already famous all over the joint for our old-school dedication to all the things that make pubs special - friendly staff and regulars, live music, zero tolerance for hassles. Exciting new tucker and a flash new beer garden bar are just a few more reasons to make the Junkyard your local. In the meantime, have a crack in the comments at guessing what cuisine we'll be bringing to town and what you personally reckon would be the perfect fit. See more

02.01.2022 Sitting in the sun sinking schooners and listening to mighty players with a lifetime of stories to match their killer musical chops sounds like the perfect Sunday recharge. Because it bloody well is. On this gilded Sabbath arvo from 3.30pm in the Junko beer garden, Adam Young and Gleny Rae star in the latest instalment of Your Sunday Best. They are priceless gems. See you down here.

02.01.2022 The only way to wind down from the enormous high of Johnny and Hank Green yesterday is to get straight back on the grog horse at a full gallop this arvo with Sam Newton in the beer garden from 4pm. Live music and good times. You wouldn't be dead for quids.