Beaufort History
The Flywheel Bar & Cafe
About The Flywheel Bar and cafe
in Beaufort
The Flywheel Bar & Café opened as a quaint little café in August of 2023 and has since grown to into a buzzing bar and live music venue, celebrating arts, creativity and great old-fashioned hospitality.
The Flywheel team take customer service very seriously and go above and beyond to ensure that every customer has a fantastic experience whilst visiting The Flywheel.
The Flywheel Bar & Cafe is nestled within the iconic and famous Beaufort Motors building. With its tall Baroque scrolled facade, Beaufort Motors was one of the most eye-catching and elaborate interwar garages of any style in Victoria, and is important as an early example of roadside architecture in this regard.
Beaufort Motors has striking geometric tilework, and is the earliest Spanish style garage remaining.
The Beaufort Motors building originally opened as a motor mechanics under the name of Wilson’s Motors in the late 1920’s. Since opening, it has served as a Holden dealership, RACV service station, fruit and vegetable shop and more recently a café and bar.
The building has only changed hands 6 times in the past 100 years and still holds so much history associated with the introduction of motor vehicles in daily life.
