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User Reviews on Banjo Paterson Cottage Restaurant
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Food 9 |
Ambience 9 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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Food is amazing, service is impeccable. I love the funny waiter, he is hysterical.
We will be back again and again.
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forrest -
See my reviews 4 , 23 June 2009
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Food 7 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 8 |
Value 8 |
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This is an excellent restaurant. Service is unfussed but spot-on. No need to look plaintifully for a re-fill on the wine as it just happens as it should. The food is brilliant. Not too clever and very well executed. The old story of good food done well.
The ambiance is cosy and welcoming. You often hear of professionalism in the hospitality industry, but this restaurant has it in abundance. It is amost impossible to resist the desserts and the wine list is affordable and not in the least pretensions. I wonder if Banjo really lived there?
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forster -
See my reviews 3, 20 March 2009
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Food 8 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 9 |
Value 8 |
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A very nice little restaurant - different from the often noisy large venues where everyone tries to outshout each other creating an atmosphere of a railway station rather than a high class dinner. The food was excellent (although only lukewarm), the wine was good the service perfect. This was one of the best dinners I've had for a very long time and I will definitely come back!
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BernhardVoll -
See my reviews 1, 14 February 2009
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Food 8 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 9 |
Value 10 |
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Took a large group here for dinner recently and had a great night. Lovely surroundings to have a drink in the gardens before dinner. Top service, good food, and not overly priced. Will definitely return to this one. Also great sometimes not having to go into the city, this place has parking conveniently situated across from the restaurant in the park.
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Hex -
See my reviews 5, 09 February 2009
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Below Average |
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Food 5 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 3 |
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A very quaint little sandstone cottage, shoddy and sloppy attempt at a renovation, stock stored haphazardly in the lower level outside the toilets, rickety flooring, poor air-conditioning. Entree was just ghastly scallops with gruel would be an adequate description; beef for main was tasty, desserts average. Service was overly familiar and forgetful. I really wouldn't recommend this restaurant to anyone.
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Blairegourmand -
See my reviews 139, 08 February 2009
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Food 9 |
Ambience 9 |
Service 9 |
Value 6 |
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Excellent entree and main, the snapper pie was excellent. One of the better meals we've had recently. Nice view from the table. Service unfaultable. Bit pricey, especially the drinks but will come again for special occasion. They need better ventilation.
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mambods -
See my reviews 42, 17 January 2009
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Food 6 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 6 |
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Been to this place three times over the past years and still am convinced that the food they serve is only mediocre. Food is bland and service is polite as it should be, but nothing more. Don't know if we will make a fourth visit.
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castaway -
See my reviews 3, 21 December 2008
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Food 6 |
Ambience 4 |
Service 3 |
Value 6 |
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For many years I lived close to this restaurant and never knew of its existence. Mind you that was well before I spent so much of my time and money on food, wine and song!
A friend suggested a lunch here recently and on approach, I was pleasantly surprised by its impression as a magical little cottage perched over the water. So keen was I to see if they'd managed to bring Ol' Banjo back to life that I charged ahead, despite being very early, and eagerly took my place at a window side table.
Now, waiting for your dining companion can be a drag or a God send. It gives you with the chance to think, daydream, and offers you the rare opportunity to truly take in your surroundings, and appreciate the ambience. Or not. My wait brought with it many 'gifts'; a realisation that the squishiness of my uncomfortable chair left no elbow room to eat my food; that the table was wonky and ridiculously small; that the restrooms were an impossible rabbit warren journey away; that the place had obviously been decorated by my Mother-in-law and that they had in fact, not brought Ol' Banjo back from the dead.
It's not uncommon for me to sit and wait for business companions to join me, and be surrounded by my own thoughts that are only (yet welcomely) interrupted by offers of service - otherwise known as hospitality. Things like a drink. Or a preview at the menu. Or a 'hello'. Nope, nothing like that here. Forty minutes of being completely ignored before my companion arrives and then we get 'sudden' service. Suddenly they care about how our day is and invite us to wine and dine. Am I invisible?
Too many restaurants neglect the solo diner whether that be a waiting diner, or someone choosing to dine alone. Take note people, these are individuals who have the time and attention to notice your worth. By their very nature, they also tend to be the ones who are paying, and deciding if they will pay again. Banjo Paterson Cottage was possibly the worst case of 'solo neglect' that I've encountered.
The service improved dramatically once I was 'with friend', and we had little difficultly beyond inflexibility around the menu, wrongly assigned cutlery, and delays (yes, ironic) with the courses being served. The food was OK, the wine offerings predictable. Sorry, but I won't be paying again.
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paperdoll -
See my reviews 93, 30 October 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 5 |
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Me and my husband went for lunch yesterday - on the whole the food was good but it was a disappointing experience in terms of service/ambience. I had corn fed chicken with mushroom risotto, it was cooked well and very filling. My husband had braised beef with a onion jam, the beef was cooked as requested but the onion jam was fridge temperature. We ordered a side dish of garlic potatoes which were nice - crispy on the outside.
Our reserved seats were in a tiny room against a beige wall so we had no views of the water. My seat was pushed up against a standing lamp with a huge wooden base which I did not realise until I attempted to push my chair back, and the lamp fell over and nearly hit my head!! I think this has happened before as the waiter had told me the reason why the cork is wedged in the lamp is because "it's a bit loose". Then I looked across at the other table where a couple were sitting, they too had a standing lamp and the frame next to it had a big chunk missing.
The waiter we had attempted to be funny but it came across as weird. The service was poor at the end of the meal, we waited so long for our bill that we decided to get up and pay. For some reasons our payment must have been lost amongst their till as they rang my husband 4 times yesterday to ask how he had paid! I don't think we will be returning!
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ootanaboot -
See my reviews 4, 06 October 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 8 |
Value 7 |
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I went for a work dinner last night. It's a beautiful setting, a surprise to have that bushland and the view so close to the city. Probably didn't get the full benefit of the view given I was there at night.
They did well for a work function. The chatty waiter was on, but he was good fun and efficient. Entrees were alternate drop, so I was limited to what was in front of me. The duck with potato gnocchi was lovely. Very generous serve for entree. I was pacing myself so ate a third. Their bread rolls deserve special mention, had a variety and all looked delicious. For mains, I had the kingfish. Well presented with generous serve of broccoli served at the table. Very fresh.
For once, I got to dessert and found it all too sweet. My taste buds must be degenerating. I had the apple crumble with ice cream and it was a bit disappointing, nothing too unique about it. Petit fours were almond macaroons (I think from the taste) but they fell flat for me.
In summary, it's a great venue for a work function. I would love to go back and see how private dining goes.
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mrspossum08 -
See my reviews 75, 24 September 2008
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