by wristwatcher » Sat Aug 01, 2015 1:51 am
by Pseudo » Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:34 pm
wristwatcher wrote: A young man sitting across from me in my eye line but obviously not aware picked his nose...and ate it. I mean cmon man, there's a f@cken salad bar 5metres away full of greens. I mean everyone has bad habits but surely a nice restaurant is not the place to go the sly pick and chew.
by HH3 » Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:33 pm
by wristwatcher » Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:50 am
HH3 wrote:Heres two reviews.
Firstly, not really a restuarant, but more like a food court passing itself off as a market.
The Market Shed on Holland St in the city.
We went there last Sunday for a casual look, and got a coffee and some jerky. All good.
We went back tonight for their Night Market. Exactly the same, except this time, there were about 5000 people crammed into a small space, and for some reason this time there was a $3 entry fee.
We got an ice cream sandwich, some Kale "chips" (just kale leaves with seasoning) and some jerky and left after about 20 mins of busting through packs.
Now with our plans exhausted, we rang Hogs Breath on Gougar to see if we could be lucky enough to get in, and we were.
Rock up, get seated, look at the menu. Bit pricey. Ok, fair enough. Its a gimicky place after all.
I order the surf and turfy steak (dunno what their name for it was), and get the half serve, coz id filled up on the kale and jerky.
When it came out, the sauce looked bit iffy, and the whole steak was covered in it. Couldnt see the steak actually. When I tasted it, it was the most terrible sauce I have ever tasted. No flavour, very suss consistancy, if you know what i mean. I scrapped it off as best i could. The steak wasnt bad, except one side was cooked well and one side was way undercooked.
Mrs HH3 got the Tex Mex, which is a steak and burrito combo. Looked alright, and she had no complaints.
So two meals and one Coke cost $61.
Wont be going back. The gimmick doesn't warrant that price. Especially with all the other steak houses around the place these days.
Edit - just told the missus i was writing this and she said with a chuckle, "sauce with a weird consistancy that tasted like c*m".
Thats my girl!
Hogs Breath on Gougar - 3/10
*the Coke was pretty good.
by The Dark Knight » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:27 am
by Pag » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:21 am
by wristwatcher » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:50 pm
Pag wrote:OG Hotel Sports Bar, $16 Pint and Parmi deal. Went the James Squire Golden Ale as it was choice of any beer on tap.
Nice chips, parmi was relatively small but for $16 hard to go wrong.
by Lightning McQueen » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:55 pm
HH3 wrote:Heres two reviews.
Firstly, not really a restuarant, but more like a food court passing itself off as a market.
The Market Shed on Holland St in the city.
We went there last Sunday for a casual look, and got a coffee and some jerky. All good.
We went back tonight for their Night Market. Exactly the same, except this time, there were about 5000 people crammed into a small space, and for some reason this time there was a $3 entry fee.
We got an ice cream sandwich, some Kale "chips" (just kale leaves with seasoning) and some jerky and left after about 20 mins of busting through packs.
Now with our plans exhausted, we rang Hogs Breath on Gougar to see if we could be lucky enough to get in, and we were.
Rock up, get seated, look at the menu. Bit pricey. Ok, fair enough. Its a gimicky place after all.
I order the surf and turfy steak (dunno what their name for it was), and get the half serve, coz id filled up on the kale and jerky.
When it came out, the sauce looked bit iffy, and the whole steak was covered in it. Couldnt see the steak actually. When I tasted it, it was the most terrible sauce I have ever tasted. No flavour, very suss consistancy, if you know what i mean. I scrapped it off as best i could. The steak wasnt bad, except one side was cooked well and one side was way undercooked.
Mrs HH3 got the Tex Mex, which is a steak and burrito combo. Looked alright, and she had no complaints.
So two meals and one Coke cost $61.
Wont be going back. The gimmick doesn't warrant that price. Especially with all the other steak houses around the place these days.
Edit - just told the missus i was writing this and she said with a chuckle, "sauce with a weird consistancy that tasted like c*m".
Thats my girl!
Hogs Breath on Gougar - 3/10
*the Coke was pretty good.
by Lightning McQueen » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:58 pm
by Q. » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:01 pm
by jakovasaurus » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:18 pm
Q. wrote:Nordburger have added to their menu, including breakfast (which I'm yet to try).
The new Royale burger is a solid 8/10. Tasty and juicy and well held together. Not much different to the Bacon-Double, which is also a winner, so I can see why they went with a successful formula.
The Crinkle Cut Royale Chips are ******* amazing - 9.5/10.
by Q. » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:29 pm
jakovasaurus wrote:Q. wrote:Nordburger have added to their menu, including breakfast (which I'm yet to try).
The new Royale burger is a solid 8/10. Tasty and juicy and well held together. Not much different to the Bacon-Double, which is also a winner, so I can see why they went with a successful formula.
The Crinkle Cut Royale Chips are ******* amazing - 9.5/10.
I just moved a few 100m up the road from a Nord. Will have to check that out. Nord is usually pretty good.
Will have to be amazing for me to stop driving to 127 for my burger fixes though.
by Pag » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:42 pm
wristwatcher wrote:Pag wrote:OG Hotel Sports Bar, $16 Pint and Parmi deal. Went the James Squire Golden Ale as it was choice of any beer on tap.
Nice chips, parmi was relatively small but for $16 hard to go wrong.
Really good selection in the salad and veg bar though at the OG.
Looks like a good deal especially if you get Jimbob Squire as the beer.
Standard 7.5-8.5 rating that place. Your rating Pag?
by mickey » Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:51 pm
by JK » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:03 pm
by CENTURION » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:12 pm
by wristwatcher » Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:33 am
CENTURION wrote:Hampstead Hotel on a Wednesday night, $12 medium rare Rump plus a schooner of beer, ripper value.
by wristwatcher » Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:39 am
JK wrote:82 Thai at Grange.
Missus had been before so was keen to get me there to see if her inflated opinion was on the mark.
Started with 2 x Entree's - Scallops and some dumpling things (Prawn and Pork mince IIRC) - Both were exceptional. In fact the Scallops had some of the best combination of flavours I've ever tasted (Soy, Lime, Fish Roe, Fresh Chilli & Coriander). Good start!
Ordered 3 Mains to share, along with a steamed rice. The mains were:
- Seafood Dish with Fish, heaps of squid, coupla prawns, all in a mostly Soy based Sauce with Fresh Chilli.
- A Crispy Pork dish off the specials board (which I believe features quite often) which was pretty good, although possibly slightly overcooked. Accompanying veggies were brilliant too.
- A Chilli Chicken Fried Rice - No glug, very clean and hit the spot.
For 3 x Mains, 2 x Entree's, 1 x Steamed Rice, 1 x Glass of Wine, 1 x Large Mineral Water, total came to $99 which was pretty reasonable. Missus reckons theres a %25 off in the Ent book but she decided to save it for a later date. I was OK with that because she paid anyway. (Although I'll probably pay the Credit Card bill when it comes in anyway )
Staff were friendly, and all meals were served easily within an acceptable timeframe.
Rating 7.0/10 - Would happily recommend and look forward to getting back there someday.
by Spargo » Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:45 am
by JK » Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:06 am
wristwatcher wrote:Good revue. Not to question your rating but your description sounds more like an 8 than a 7.
Thank God the reviews have improved from people talking about KFC during my sabbatical.
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