The Niagara Café

Address: 142 Sheridan Street, Gundagai

Phone: (02) 9069 5733

The Niagara Café, Is a magnificent example of the classic country Greek café.  The café’s current art deco/American Streamline interior and glazed façade were created in 1938, transforming a simple eating house into a catering “pleasure palace”, delighting both eye and appetite. 

Opening hours:

Monday - Friday: 7:30am - 4:00pm

Saturday & Sunday: 8:00am - 4:00pm

Click the link for the amazing Niagara Café: Menu

History of the Café:

During its long history the Niagara has been frequented by touring artists, film stars and politicians-most notably, by wartime prime minister John Curtin and his war cabinet, for a hearty midnight meal of steak and eggs in 1942.

In 1975, three days before Christmas, the Niagara was gutted by fire and badly damaged. It was eventually repaired built and re-opened in 1978, with Jack and Vic Castrission well into their 70’s and still at the helm.

The brothers eventually sold the business in 1983, to Nick Loukissas, and the Loukissas family continued to operate the café until 2020, making the Niagara the longest continually owned Greek café in Australia.

In 2021/22 new owners carried out a significant restoration of the café, reinstalling the domed ceiling that was lost to the 1975 fire, and updating the kitchen and bathroom facilities.  We welcomed our first customers back into the café and June 2022, and was to preserve the long history of the café, and hope to provide warm country style hospitality to locals and travellers alike.

If these walls could talk, imagine the stories they could tell!  We look forward to welcoming you back to the Niagara.

“It is essentially, the finest remaining specimen of its kind, a jewel of the period when Greek cafés nourished the nation's appetite for a good feed after a long country drive, or before or after a night out at the flicks." - Leonard Janiszewski

Images kindly provided by the Castrission family