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User Reviews on Bird Cow Fish
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Food 8 |
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Value 7 |
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We've been meaning to try this restaurant for a while and have only just got there. We enjoyed our evening. We went mid week so there was no problem with a table. The waitress was really friendly, casual and knowledgeable.
The over cost was $145 for 2 entrees, 2 mains and 4 glasses of wine. The wine was $9 a glass. You would expect it to be good and it was. The gnocchi was great, as was the fennel/ broad bean/ parmesan salad with lemon/ verjuice dressing. The hangar steak (never heard of the cut previously), I was warned would be gamey was good but a little tough due to the cut. The lamb was excellent.
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zurich08 -
See my reviews 34 , 01 October 2008
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Food 3 |
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Value 2 |
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Well it's not often that I sign up to a web site so I can tell other people how appalling the service at a restaurant was, definitely a first for me.
The "Cow" has the rudest service I have ever received. Arrogant & patronizing only just scratch the surface. Don't bother ever visiting the "Cow" if you want to enjoy your evening. I literally walked out after a $10 bottle of mineral water... Elton John summed it up when he commented on Madonna receiving an award for best "live" act.
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buzztodd -
See my reviews 1, 27 September 2008
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Food 8 |
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Value 7 |
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I think this place is a tie with Book Kitchen for the best restaurant in Surry Hills. I've eaten here twice a la carte and twice for breakie. Emphasis on top quality ingredients. Good coffee although not always hot enough. Their seared hanger steak was excellent for lunch. I enjoyed their organic breakfast omelette with a buttery spinach filling too. The service staff are excellent, professional but lacking snootiness. We saw Bob and Helena Carr there the other week too... not that that's any incentive to go!
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PyrmontBoy200 -
See my reviews 18, 13 September 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 8 |
Value 6 |
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This is a pleasant spot. Ratings by other eatability subscribers seem to me unduly harsh when it comes to ambience and service. I found it a great luncheon spot. We were well looked after and the wine knowledge by the wine steward was excellent. If I had one criticism, my beef sirloin was perfectly presented and flavoured but tough. All other dishes were perfectly presented and excellent dining. Wines are expensive and the diner should be selective. A great place for lunch.
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jbburro -
See my reviews 18, 20 August 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 8 |
Value 7 |
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Fabulous food for dinner though a little bit overpriced. The breakfasts on the other hand are quite boring.
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SB80 -
See my reviews 11, 17 August 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 7 |
Value 3 |
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Food was okay but overpriced. We went on a Saturday lunch time and it was far too noisy. I don't mind a little ambience but having to shout to be heard is a little annoying.
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natalielimet -
See my reviews 3, 09 August 2008
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Food 6 |
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Value 5 |
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Bird Cow Fish tries to come across as a high end Bistro. However, it seems to fall short in many ways. So while the dishes themselves do have a bistro feel to them it lacks the the homely, comforting, accessible and enjoyable feeling one would associate with bistro dining. Unfortunately, I think BCF miss the Bistro mark by coming across as wanting to be a top class restaurant but ultimately not having the quality of food/execution, service or poise to deliver.
It definitely misses on the price front and we felt it was somewhat overpriced for what is being offered. We visited on a Sunday for lunch on a cool winters day, our waitress was friendly and attentive, if slightly rushed. In general the meals that we ordered (I had the Lamb) were for want of a better word, ordinary.
The ultimate test of a restaurant is whether you would go back and in this case we would give it a second chance at some stage, purely on reputation, but there are many places to get to before we would take a chance with BCF again.
As a footnote I just noticed that BCF apparently had 1 Chefs Hat Awarded in 2007 and 2008. There was definitely no evidence of that when we visited.
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jd_aus -
See my reviews 9, 05 August 2008
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Food 8 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 10 |
Value 8 |
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Interesting set up with a section for the café and a separate restaurant section. Great service, very attentive. Interesting selection of menus. One for breakfast, one for drinks, one for lunch and one for cheese and desserts. We had the cheese platter which was beautifully presented and the quince jelly was lovely. The ambience was superb. A really good place for casual catch up with friends.
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burberrymuffin -
See my reviews 25, 22 June 2008
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Food 6 |
Ambience 4 |
Service 4 |
Value 4 |
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Disappointed after reading the reviews, feels like a cafe charging restaurant prices, service is very average (had to ask twice for our bread). Food is good but not worth the price. Probably will not return.
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CLW -
See my reviews 31, 13 June 2008
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Food 4 |
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Service 6 |
Value 5 |
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What started out as just a quiet dinner on a thursday night turned into an exercise of futility and frustration, ultimately to the detriment of what was an otherwise mildly positive experience.
Everything started well - the service was friendly and attentive, and our wines were delicious, as was the salami plate. The main problem - and the source of the aforementioned frustration, was the lamb main course. It was delivered cold. Not a little lukewarm, but cold, like it had sat waiting delivery to my table for a long stretch of the night. Strangely enough my partner's meal (a pie) was served piping hot. The lamb was served on a bed of tomato and white beans, which were quite lovely - the tomatoes were room temp and flavoursome - the problem was the lamb was the same temp as the tomato - if not a little colder.
I questioned my waiter about my meal being cold - she took it away and returned same meal 3 minutes later and told me that the meal was OK in her opinion and that given the resting required of lamb the meat would of course be a little cold, but that the kitchen was "warming it through for me". I'm no pro chef but I've cooked plenty and I know that meat needs resting - but cold lamb is cold lamb - and well rested meat doesn't appear at the table at 30 degrees (which is what I estimate it was served at). I also didn't appreciate being patronised with the statement that the kitchen staff was warming the meal through for me - as though I had sent back gazpacho to be warmed through.
My meal re-appeared in a warmed plate with warm accompaniment and warmed (and subsequently toughened) lamb - just as though it had been microwaved for a minute on high or placed in a hot oven. I questioned the waiter and she claimed that the meal had been made fresh. So either the constistency of meals served was variable (thus accounting for the fact that the tomato and bean mix was room temp on first serve and then warmed through on the second) or they should have had pork pies on the specials menu...
Not only did I doubt the waiter's word as to what had happened out back in the kitchen, I also felt insulted by the inference that I couldn't possibly know how the meal should be served. I'm loathe to send anything back, so the fact that I mentioned it at all is indication of how seriously I took the problem to be.
Anyway the rest of the meal passed without event - apart from ordering a short black and then being asked if I wanted any coffees but the whole thing left me feeling very uncomfortable and as though I had made an inordinate fuss, which on reflection I don't think I did. With so many alternatives in the area who offer a very similar experience only with better wines, service and food - I don't think I'll be returning.
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daggerz -
See my reviews 4, 13 June 2008
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