Fresh User Reviews in Beverly Hills

5.5 Average

Food  5      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  4     

Went with a Cudo voucher. Service was acceptable, and decor was splendid. They even had two chefs outside making spinach raviolis (which was a tad strange as there was no ravioli on the menu).

We were also unable to order the oysters as an entree, which was disappointing and misleading as when the deal was on offer, there was no mention of such an exclusion. It clearly stated 'any entree and main'. First disappointment of the night.

Second disappointment, when our entrees and mains were served, it was clear that we were being differentiated from the full paying customers. Entrees were ok, but the mains were definitely different to the ones being served to the full paying diners. I spotted them getting served a differently plated and obviously bigger portion of the "same menu item".

Being differentiated was a major disappointment. I suspected they went as far as sitting all the 'voucher' diners on the one side of the restaurant. Also, there appears to be a change in management although the "senior staff" refused to admit it. It seemed to be now run by new owners with two oddly hired ravioli making kitchen staffs at the front window.

Third disappointment, the squid ink spaghetti we had was definitely not freshly made. It may have been freshly made a week or so ago, but it was not fresh on the plate.

All in all, I would not have paid more than the price of that voucher ($49) and did not think it was worth more than that. In fact, I don't think its really worth $49. Revisit? I think not.

May 23, 2012

4.3 Below Average

Food  8      Ambience  3      Service  3      Value  3     

The Food was great, no complaints there. But I was disappointed with every thing else. I really wish I had the reviews on this before going. I live locally and had seen banners of the brazilian All you can eat so we thought we try it out for my birthday.

Firstly, They couldn't even get the correct spelling of the name the booking was made under, secondly I booked for 8pm they decided to book me in for 8.30 (because it was convenient for them)

Now, as far as value for money goes the "All you can eat" is not all you can eat. I was so disappointed. It was my first time there and we ordered the Supreme all you can eat. Firstly I think the menu was misleading because it says the seafood was part of it, but instead all we get are small ramekin size side dishes of garlic prawns and a few pieces of crumbed fish.

Mind you we had a table of 10 booked. The potato and salad dish was the same, how the hell do you share a small ramekin size dish of potato salad among 10 people. Same goes for the rice dish. There was alot more mentioned on the menu that was not presented.

Then they started coming around with the skewers of meat cuts. A tiny 2cm cube of some meat cut was taken of the skewer and placed on my plate, assuming I would receive a second piece as it is only very tiny, the waiter moves to the next person leaving me holding my plate in mid air as if I was begging for more. It was embarrassing and disgusting. Skewers of the same cuts of meats came around about 3 times before it was all over. How is that "All you can eat". Definitely not value for money.

It was my first time there and my last to order the supreme. But because the food was cooked well I will give their A-La Carte menu a try and hope the servings are better this time.

I hope I don't regret it.

May 20, 2012

3.8 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  3      Service  5      Value  3     

Not Happy Jan. The only reason we went there is because we had been when It was Vardys, which had been Ok. I wish I had read the reviews before going. My friend and I were very disappointed with the whole experience. The place was cool (lucky we had warm clothing on). We thought the menu was expensive for what we got. I had ribs and steak (not much meat on the ribs and the steak was overdone and chewy). My friend could not eat her steak too. Not much choice re the sweets but what we had was good. We are locals and will not be returning.

May 18, 2012

1.5 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  3      Service  1      Value  1     

I have Never Ever been more Disgusted with a restaurant in my life. A friend had recommended the place and said the 2 for 1 special was worth it, so we decided to give it a go. We had previously tried a brazilian BBQ in leichardt which was great so we were eager to try other similar restaurants.

Upon booking my boyfriend rang and was told they were completely booked out until 8:00pm, naturally we got excited, this seemed like a good sign. How wrong we were. We arrived right on 8pm and was shown to our table where we and our two friends were informed of the 2 for 1 special.

We waited 40 Minutes for drinks and sides. We were told by the sweet waitress (she was lovely and I felt a bit sorry for her) that she wasn't sure what was going on tonight and her boss had decided to do things differently and she was sorry. We let it slide, until we tried the sides. We ordered the Supreme menu, where do I start?

The beans were cold and tasted like water. All the fried food (polenta and banana) were Drowned in oil and literally dripping with it. All red meat was Cooked rare (and I usually Love my meat pink but this was literally Rare Rare, the meat wasn't even Hot from cooking). It was so rare that my other female friend and I could not eat another bite and would not put anything else on our plates for fear it would be soaked in blood from the meat.

We didn't receive all the sides promised on the supreme menu, we had to ask Several times for sides as we were initially presented with just banana and polenta, thats it. Then we kept asking and even then we Still weren't given everything promised on the menu. The prawns were cold, also this was the Only seafood we received even though the menu promised more.

The "salad" was bits of iceberg lettuce with spanish onion on top, hardly a salad. The scotch fillet were Meager flimsy pieces of meat, not even the size of my palm, the portuguese chicken was Stone Cold as if it had been refrigerated! yuck! Beef ribs were oily as chorizo/honeyed ham was cold and tasted like coles meat. Pork ribs were dry.

When someone did notice you and came round to your table we were served Tiny Meager portions of meat And several times the waiter dropped food on the table or floor and didn't bother to pick it up. Cheese balls were cold, stale = just pathetic.

The only mediocre food was the cinnamon pineapple (and even then I have had better elsewhere). The staff had No idea what they were doing. One girl serving us food didn't even know what some of the dishes were! one of our waiters came over with meat at one point and said "I don't know what this is but would you like some?"

Naturally I was completely fed up by this point and went to complain to the senior staff - he asked me what was wrong, I told him the above and he went to the owner. He came back and said we would be given a discount. No mention of any compensation i.e. your drinks are free, would you like a free dessert? Nothing!

Upon paying the bill was $100! I was shocked so I asked him to explain it to me. He said that it was originally $200 but the owner apologised for the food and gave us $100 off, now I'm not a genius at math but we were initially told that it was 2 for 1 so at $47.50 for 2 ppl it should have been around $120 and thus discounted to around $50, not the case apparently.

The senior staff then told me "oh no its not two for one, who told you that?" obviously the poor waitress we had in the beginning was not told the right information. Not only that but the posters around the restaurant stated otherwise. What kind of restaurant does that?! The senior staff then proceeded to speak to me so rudely and Refused to give us a further discount despite the fact we didn't even receive anything close to $100 worth of food and 98% of it was So poor it was inedible

I will never ever return to this place ever again! Disgusting food disgusting service! Not even half a star from me!

May 16, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  8      Value  10     

You will never regret a night at The Rhinedorf-the on tap Erdinger weiss is awesome-mixed cold selection plate is fresh and tasty, the pork knuckle-Omg the taste is as good as the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. Go there you won't regret it. Highly recommended.

May 13, 2012

4.5 Below Average

Food  6      Ambience  8      Service  1      Value  3     

I visited Spago on Thursday night with my fiance with a Cudo voucher. The waitress that showed us to our table was lovely and proceeded to tell us that we can order whatever we like off the main and entree menus with our voucher.

My fiance asked for the oyster entree and she then replied by saying 'sorry no more oysters'. That was fine so he ordered something else. To our surprise the lady behind us ordered oysters just after us and received it!

We then questioned the owner as to why we had been told there were no oysters when there actually was? he responded by saying "you are getting very good value with your voucher, if we give you oysters we will be losing money". So we were lied to, very bad move for your business buddy!

We would have been happy if the waitress told us this before we ordered but instead got lied to. Apart from this the restaurant itself was lovely and the food was Ok but would have been much better if the night didn't start on such a negative. No need to say I won't be coming here again and making sure no one else I know does either.

May 12, 2012

7.8 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  8     

Been here several times for dinner. Food is always good and great desserts. Service reasonably quick too.

May 10, 2012

8 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  7     

Thoroughly enjoyed the food. I'm vegetarian and bf a carnivore, and both very satisfied with dinner! Dolmades are a must have!

The menu is missing platters for one, such as a vegetarian plate, which makes it a little pricey to order a selection of things. Greek band inside was loud, but enjoyable, and felt very european. Waitstaff very attentive and friendly.

Recommend booking as restaurant was very busy!

May 08, 2012

8 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  8     

We have to agree with Foodie Idol on all points. Very tasty food, very nice service very friendly staff. For a place that has only been open a few month, it was over flowing, however, the large number of patrons was well balanced by the number of staff they had on.

We enjoyed the meat platter for two which is a nice mix and ample in size.
Being in a corner table we were able to watch most of the plates coming out of the kitchen and making note of what to have next time. Its BYO as well which is a plus and the Turkish delight is worth having with the coffee and tea which are well made.

May 05, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

I'm not an easy person to please as I expect great quality food every time I go out to a restaurant and I have searched high and low for a great Japanese restaurant and Sushi Bar Hiro hits the spot every time we've been.

Apr 28, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  9     

I came here with a large group of friends on a Saturday night and the place was absolutely packed wall to wall. We were greeted by warm friendly staff that were very attentive the whole night through.

The service and food were very fast and reasonably priced. I was raised with good authentic Greek food and this restaurant is the best Greek food I have tasted in a long while. Everything was very fresh and the flavor's were amazing. We started with the dips and pita bread, Greek salad made with all fresh ingredients and good quality feta which was perfect with the BBQ octopus and calamari both tender and juicy and not at all rubbery.

The meat platter was so big and the selection of meats was just perfect with peppery sausages to kebabs and BBQ lamb, and lots of other little temptations. Some of us just squeezed in dessert which looked fabulous but I could not eat another thing. Even the guys that can really put it away were all very happy!

The whole night was perfect and everyone enjoyed everything served. The only thing I would mention is that the Greek music was just a tad too loud for me over dinner so it made it a bit hard to talk across the table and I found I had a sore throat by the end of the night.

I also found the lighting a bit too bright and stark which took away some of the ambience. All up a very good authentic Greek restaurant that I look forward to visiting again soon. Great food, great staff, keep up the good work!

Apr 27, 2012

5 Average

Food  7      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  7     

The food (especially the dishes with duck components) is fairly good.

However, if you don't speak Chinese, forget coming here as it is very hard to communicate otherwise. This is from a basic observation of other non-Chinese people trying to communicate.

Apr 26, 2012

2 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  2      Value  1     

We decided to try this restaurant on the spur of the moment after consideration to come another day with a group. We had a Perri Perri chicken dish which was tasteless and undercooked. When the chips are the best part then the dinner is disappointing. The other dish was a mixture of stewed meats in a pot. This was almost inedible, we did leave most of it. Each chunk of meat was hard and the gravy was horrible. Each meal was over $20 and wasn't worth $5. Any take away would serve up better chicken and chips. I couldn't recommend this to anyone.

Apr 21, 2012

6.3 Average

Food  7      Ambience  5      Service  7      Value  6     

We went with a group including Children and had a nice evening. The Kids enjoyed the entertainment and the food was good quality, fresh and flavoursome.
The restaurant decor was a little tired, but didn't appear to be dirty. Our chef was entertaining and pleasant which made it a fun night. Drink service was a little slow.

Apr 18, 2012

6.3 Average

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  4      Value  7     

Service can be a bit lacking with long wait times, particularly if the place is busy.

However, it offers above average fairly yummy (sorry for the pun) food and that's what matters.

Apr 10, 2012

2 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  4      Service  2      Value  1     

Table of 5. When seated every single one of our plates were dirty. Had to request clean plates. Ordered a whole portugese/ peri peri? Chicken as one of our mains, what we got was half a peri peri chicken and bits of some leftover churasco chicken. The waitress informed us there was 'actually more chicken than a whole one', like we had just hit the jackpot!

The chicken, to put it mildly, was awful. It was dry and had absolutely no flavor, requested some kind of sauce to eat it with and was told they had nothing. No peri peri, tomato, chilli, nothing. We ended having to grab some salt and pepper from another table. Paella and the fish stew were standard. Simply not worth the money spent.

Will not be returning nor recommending this place to anyone

Apr 01, 2012

4.8 Average

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  7      Value  7     

Went here with a group of 7 and I can honestly say that this is some of the most mediocre food I've tasted in the many years I've been dining on the Beverly Hills restaurant strip.

Seriously, every single dish ordered was poorly done, from the beef nachos which had the world's worst guacamole, to the chicken focaccia which was dry and tastless. The pizzas took the prize for worst though, they were drowned in the cheapest, most flavourless of cheeses and poorly constructed to boot (all the cheese on top so the topping falls off rather than sticking to the base).

Do yourself a favour and avoid their signature LuLu's pizza...it stank. I would suggest that anyone wanting a decent meal avoid this place, there are plenty of far better dining options in Beverly Hills.

Mar 31, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  8      Value  8     

Delicious food. Entree, main and dessert were delicious. The service was friendly, quick and professional. A must-do restaurant for anyone with fine taste that likes impeccable service. Highly recommended.

Mar 30, 2012

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  6      Service  8      Value  9     

Great food, good price, surprise for our local area. We originally would get take away delivered from there and thought it was good. When we went to the restaurant for the first time we were not disappointed food is beautiful and are now a regular customer. Food is authentic and priced well.

Mar 28, 2012

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  8     

Went for dinner here last night with a friend. We love trying new places and thought this place sounded promising. Best decision! Service was impeccable and the food was beyond impeccable. I struggled picking what I wanted all the food just sounded amazing and I can't wait to come back and try something else! I highly recommend this restaurant! Thankyou for a great night.

Mar 21, 2012