Where - 1555 Melton Highway, Rockbank

Price - $25.90

Website - https://www.gamekeepers.com.au

Reviewers - Lee & Nikki

If you’ve spent any time driving from Melbourne to Melton you’d surely know about “The Windmill”, a function centre on the Melton Highway which has a large, colonial style windmill as its centrepiece.

If you can draw your eyes away from the majesty that is the windmill for even a moment, you might notice that next door to the windmill is a pub, a pub that is the target of our review tonight - the Gamekeepers Secret Inn, or Gamekeepers Secret Country Inn, the signage is inconsistent - Although any signage at all seems a bit counter-intuitive to an establishment that you seemingly want to keep “secret” … but I digress.

Having driven past the ‘keepers hundreds of times I have always wondered what it was like inside, by the looks of their facebook page they seem to be pretty active, with regular live music and food special nights - Yet as far as pubs go it seems to be in an awkward spot, even though the suburban sprawl is edging closer and closer the stretch of the Melton Highway the keepers lies on seems to still be firmly in the middle of nowhere.

So imagine my surprise when we arrived on Thursday night to an almost full carpark. The pub is huge, so there was no issue finding a table, however rocking up at about 6:30 on a Thursday night the pub was already abuzz with activity.