Fresh User Reviews in Perth and Fremantle

6.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  7      Value  6     

This is a high end Indian restaurants, with most mains $20-30. The food was fine, wine was fine, I had the kulfi for dessert which was quite hard, I had to pretty much bang it with my spoon.

May 23, 2012

7.8 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  7     

This is a trendy little restaurant behind the commonwealth bank building. The food is fusion japanese, quite fresh. The decor is nice and sleek, and service is fine. I had the sashimi salad which was refreshing and different.

The let down for me was the black sesame ice cream, when I asked for the dessert menu the waiter just told me they had two types of ice cream and a fried banana thing, so I asked for the ice cream, and it was just 2 little scoops of your average black sesame ice cream and cost $11! I was shocked when I got the bill. I'd go back, but won't be ordering dessert next time.

May 23, 2012

6.5 Recommended

Food  6      Ambience  7      Service  7      Value  6     

Someone recommended this restaurant to me and I went there for breakfast. The building is interesting, and inside it's got an industrial feel. I had the corn fritter and wild mushroom, the mushroom was fine, very fresh. The corn fritter was not what I expected, basically it was a deep fried banana with some chocolate cream and peanut butter, it was too sweet for my taste. The coffee was nice, very smooth.

May 23, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  10     

Excellence service, great food, if you like roast duck, roast pork and honey chicken. This is the place you have to visit.

May 19, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  9     

I flew back to Perth from Sydney to take my mum and family for mothers day degustation. The impression I got from booking was fantastic, I suppose it was the owner who called me to confirm, was very friendly and accommodating, to our needs. The restaurant was well staffed, and most of them were very friendly and provided excellent service, in particular I think it was a chef, was fantastic.

There was one waitress that wasn't so great, and for that reason I didn't give the overall rating a 10 on service. The ambience was modern, in an old house I think, but refurbished, no views or anything though. The lighting is dark, like other diners mentioned, but not the darkest restaurant I've been to, and it was pleasant for fine dining, with dimmed lights, and candles. As the night drew on, and the restaurant filled up, and it was fairly noisy, some background music would have been good to drown out everyone elses conversations.

Service also started to slow at this point, so the whole meal ended up taking around 3.5hours. Altho, they do warn you of this when you book. So if you're impatient like my husbund, go somewhere else for a 3 course meal, but if you don't mind having a relaxing night out, allow close to 4 hours for the whole meal.

The food - there were about 10 or 12 courses if you include the freebies and cheese course. Most were excellent. I particularly liked the Marron, the produce was excellent. And the Most unusual dish I loved was the bacon and eggs, it didn't taste like egg, but was delicious. One course I didn't really fancy was actually the main, this was a bit of a let down by the end of the meal, as the beef was rather chewy.

We ordered wines by the bottle rather than matching, and they were pretty good too. For so many courses, many which contained great produce, I think 125 for the degustation is quite reasonable in comparison to other restaurants serving similar food and offering similar service. They finished the night by writing "Happy Mothers Day' on mums dessert. Nice touch.

May 17, 2012

1.3 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Shame on you MBH - Panorama Restaurant. Service is shocking, food is shocking and senior staff is even more shocking! Fail in my books! Went there for Mothers' Day breakfast and was so disappointed. Congratulations! You just lost a customer!

First of all, the prices were ridiculous and we even had to pay full price of $15 for a 1yo as it was a set menu. It was supposed to be Bacon and Eggs and came out with 2 pieces of bacon and a piece of hard, cold toast. No egg. The other meal for a child was 2 pancakes which were tiny (each about 5cm in diameter) and a big blob of cream. That too was $15. The meals were pre-paid but if I had known it was going to be tiny meals I wouldn't have bothered booking here. Very poor.

I asked for a hot chocolate in which, when it came out was not hot and there were no marshmallows or cookies with it, like a normal Good restaurant supplies. There was also no butter supplied with the toast that was served with the meals.

The senior staff took our high chair away cos he needed it and didn't even say Thank You and then didn't even replace it with another chair so our toddler had to sit on our laps for the rest of the time we were there.

The tables weren't cleaned often so we had stacks of plates and cups and that with a toddler is not a good mix (unless you want broken plates and cups!) so I put them on the floor and told the waitress when she came by next. She just looked at it, gave a little giggle then walked off! what?

There were 4 danishes that came with the set menu and when we received them I asked for some plates so we could eat them. The waitress came back with only 2 plates. I asked her for another 2 more plates and she said "oh, you want 4 plates?"..... well yes, there are 4 of us eating here!

Then as we were walking out I turned around to see the senior staff just staring at us, not even a "Thanks for coming" like the other waiter near him. I just shook my head in disgust.

1/10 rating from me. And the 1 point goes to the nice views. The minus 9 points goes to the disappointing service, senior staffs pathetic attitude, and the scummy quantity of food.

I used to like Panorama but I don't think I'll ever return now. And I urge nobody waste their time and money there either.

May 13, 2012

2.3 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  1      Service  4      Value  2     

Just had Breakfast at this cafe for Mother's Day and left disappointed. The food was ordinary and the front desk reception was flippant and off putting. We were treated as a nuisance, even though a booking was made for 9am. When you are offered the worst table in the place and told "Someone has to sit there' then you know that you not actually welcome.

We had to ask for our food after 45 minutes and then the dishes were not even hot. We have eaten there on previous occasions for breakfast and dinner but it seems that they can not cope with the big events. Need to treat all customers as potential reviewers and this time we were let down.

May 13, 2012

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  10     

Food was great, definitely get more than you pay for. The food had lots and flavor and was very fresh. Had to wait 20 minutes. Place looks good as well.

May 03, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

Went to Joes to celebrate a family reunion and found the place outstanding. The Snapper was great and the ribeye was cooked to perfection. There are few places that give this size steak for the price. Wait staff were extremely helpful and attentive.

Apr 30, 2012

2.8 Not Recommended

Food  5      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  4     

For a new restaurant, the service is pathetic! The staff are not so accommodating even when the restaurant is not soo busy which is really disappointng because you would think they would want customers to come back! Staff are rude! I would not go back to this restaurant.

Apr 29, 2012

1.5 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  2      Service  2      Value  1     

Where do I start? Meals were not nice at all and completely overpriced considering the poor quality and the location, sauces were like water, chips were rock hard, some portions were small, mains were not all served together but within a one hour interval, what they claim to be a crocodile steak was in fact little slices of chicken, table was dirty with some old food completely dry stuck to it.

Entree was literally thrown on the table and part of it fell of the plate but staff could not care less and just walked away, part of the order never came out, the senior staff was rude when we complained basically telling us to go away and turning her back on us.

Overall one of the worst dining experience we had in a long time. Don't waste your time and money there.

Apr 29, 2012

3.8 Below Average

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  8      Value  2     

A real disappointment! Salt and Pepper squid lacked any hint of salt or pepper, was bland and oily due to being deep-fried in breadcrumbs. How about more focus on flavour rather than volume?!

Seafood chowder had minimal seafood and could have been canned soup for all we knew. Grilled mackerel was way overcooked, so dry and lacking any flavour, definitely Not spiced as stated in the menu. I barely touched it and had to reject the waitress' offer to take it home. Chips were not crisp and must have been sitting for awhile. Sticky date pudding nothing special, from a box. Cashier was not friendly, especially when I didn't tip.

The wait staff are young and attentive and doing their best but the poor quality food lets them down big time. Joe or Owner and Cashier, you need to taste your food or at least compare to quality versions of what you do, that may explain why your restaurant was barely a quarter full while all the other places were close to capacity the night we went, it's time to start serving food to match the high prices you charge.

Apr 25, 2012

3.5 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  2      Value  2     

My husband and I are from Sydney and were entertaining clients at Ishka mid week. The restaurant wasn't overly busy but the service was appalling. We had booked and were seated promptly but it was another 15 minutes before we were offered a drink (had to beg for a wine list).

The food was average and extremely overpriced. No main we had was worth anything near $44 price. The final disappoinment was the cappuccino, probably the worst coffee I have had in a fine dining establishment. This was my husband's second visit to Ishka and, unfortunately, it will be our last.

Apr 24, 2012

2.3 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  1      Value  3     

Went to this restaurant last week. It was the worst Thai food we have ever had. I cant believe that this restaurant has previously had good reviews. Service was very poor, food was terrible (4 dishes) and topping all this they don't accept EFTPOS (cash only). We will never be back.

Apr 16, 2012

2 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  1     

Worst Experience to date! 10 of us celebrating a birthday and this is what we encountered, booking was mixed up, meant to be 7.30, didn't sit us down until 8.30. Took 45 minutes to write down our order. Buffet looked understocked as it was now late. The lightly dusted calamari, came out deep fried, and leaching oil, no side salad and therefore those 3 meals were not eaten.

The vegetarian risotto came out with chicken? No replacement meal as it was too late. Barramundi with side of chips $32 was a joke, as there were only 4 chips!
Service staff were thin on the ground for a sat night, took awhile to get attention. I would not go back.

Apr 16, 2012

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Horrible Experience! I went to this restaurant for a family birthday celebration, There was around 15 of us including small children, most of which had never been to the restaurant before, but those that had had recommended it. Took around 20 minutes after we had all arrived for our food order to be taken, after a number of times of us asking, and even then they forgot to take a drinks order that took even longer to arrive.

Over an hour later we finally received our garlic bread that we had ordered with apologies but no sign of them being complimentary after such a long wait. We waited another 20 minutes for meals, a couple we're okay and of standard, however the scotch fillets were definitely not of quality, and they had mixed up all orders which resulted in a medium rare steak being sent back as it was supposed to be well done, it came back 5 minutes later still medium rare!

From this, all received complimentary coffees, is that enough to make up for the long waits and disappointing food? Not enough to bring back customers and not any where near enough to stop them from passing the story on.

Apr 15, 2012

4 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  2     

Overpriced and over rated. We thought the food was average or less and the selection was not what it should have been for the price. Disappointed!

Apr 14, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  9      Value  10     

I have had Dim Sum in many restaurants around the world and this one is right at the top. Small, walk-in cafe but the food was excellent, the trollies were frequent and there was never an empty seat the day we were there. Value for money for sure!

Apr 14, 2012

3.3 Below Average

Food  8      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  3     

IF YOU WANT diabolical service, go here! we were very regular customers, mainly eating in, but after waiting ages for a takeaway, subsequently finding out it sat on the side for 20 minutes whilst the 'kids' front of house ate prawn naks and being told by the 'kid' 'what do you want me to do about it?' I am pretty sure the new panda at mindarie will now be getting our custom. Usually good food, but always poor service as all kids and no one to organise them.

Apr 06, 2012

2 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  3      Service  3      Value  1     

Ordered a Chicken with spinach dish. Chicken wasn't cooked properly, could not taste any spice in the dish. Absolutely tasteless, I left without completing the meal.

Apr 04, 2012