Heritage Belgian Beer Cafe

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  8     

I lunched here with friends and found the food to be very good, I particularly liked the Belgian style sausages with mash and sauerkraut.

Many of the beers on their extensive beer list were unavailable, which is a bit odd for a beer cafe, but those that were available were very nice indeed.
Having read some of the reviews here I expected that the service might not be up to scratch but it turned out to be both attentive and efficient. I am moving nearby shortly so I intend to dine here regularly.

Since writing the above I have had lunch here a number of times, the beer and food are both great. The service is very good even when the restaurant is quite busy.

Nov 17, 2011 

7.3 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  5      Value  8     

Came here on a Wednesday and enjoyed the mussels and beer although the service was slow.

Nov 08, 2011 

4 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  2     

Staff are friendly, nice place to discover new beers. Avoid the food at all costs! Overpriced and bland. You will be disappointed by the food and what you get in return, it's like nasty take away food at fine dining prices.

Also it is overcrowded on the weekends, sardines. They squish too many people in often sharing a small table that seats 6 with 8-10 people. Avoid the food, the idea of Belgian food is good as I've been to Belgian and this does not resemble it at all. Very limited healthy options as well and if you're a vegetarian I wouldn't even walk in past the door.

Oct 22, 2011 

5 Average

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  2      Value  5     

Went here today for lunch, and wednesday's meant half priced mussels. We chose the mushrooms and tomato mussels, both had their own unique taste. It was great value for money along with chips. The service was slightly slow and waitresses did ignore my mad hand waving. The drinks took 20 minutes to come out and arrived after our meal. Not particularly impressed with the service, but the food was good.

Oct 19, 2011 

8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  7     

A must to visit... I went to lunch there as a friend recommended it. As I've been in Australia for a short period of time, I rely on this website to visit or not any restaurant. Surprisingly, the rating did not match with my friend's description, so I decided to give it a go.

The food is very good. Portions are really big. I had a pork belly that could not finished. May be 5 out of almost 80 beers were not available, which is not a big matter. I was offered a beer passport, which I've started to complete, to keep a track on the beers I've drunk.

As I said before... A must to visit.

Sep 29, 2011 

6.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  7     

Great beer of course and the food is good and reasonably priced. Only complaint, the mens! Awful. Is it too hard to get a staff member to clean it up every hour or so?

Aug 16, 2011 

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  10      Service  9      Value  7     

Great beer complementing great-tasting food. it's a good place for a girls' night out but you have to bring about 60-80 bucks per person unless you have the lucky knowledge of free-meal dice throws or any free event of the like (which you can easily obtain by subscribing to the BBC's newsletter by email). We went during their Belgian national holiday event period and I actually won a free main dish. Coupled with a few free drinks along some mains and desserts and I was high like ****. Awesome awesome place, will be going back again but on the other hand, don't really choose the siam sauce for the mussels because the taste is a bit too thin. Maybe too watered down.

Jul 27, 2011 

4.3 Below Average

Food  7      Ambience  4      Service  1      Value  5     

I must say it has been over 6 months since we visited, but reading the recent reviews I see nothing has changed. I'll keep it short and sweet.

As a drinking venue and if you like your beers then this place is great. A fun place to go for a couple (or more) drinks with friends and maybe some food on the side.

The food itself was quite good. Have tried the mussels, calamari, steak, prawns and all are nice. The half price mussels are good value and can recommend.

Unfortunately, service is disgusting. It is almost like you're an inconvenience to them which I always struggle with at a restaurant because without the customers the waitstaff wouldn't have a job.

On our second visit our waitress got all of our orders wrong, could not remember who ordered what when our plates came out And told one of our friends that he ordered something he did not. Suffice to say, we did not leave a tip!

Drink - Great, Food - Nice. Service - ignore the rude waitstaff and you will be fine.

Jul 13, 2011 

4 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  3      Value  3     

Uninspired large serves of heavy food with one-note flavours. Overpriced considering the quality of food available in Sydney.

Service on the night we went was appalling --- waiters actively tried to avoid eye contact and when we finally managed to draw one to attention, we were informed that they weren't looking after our table.

Great beer, but waited half an hour for them after ordering at the table.

Venue's nice but I couldn't get past the awful service and overpriced mediocre food. Not sure if the staff are just sick of their jobs or trying to give it a snooty, exclusive vibe. The food/service/long wait times would probably be easier to overlook if one was already somewhat inebriated, which unfortunately, I was not.

Jul 02, 2011 

6 Average

Food  7      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  7     

Cherry beer was a hit with the girls and those who had the pork belly. Loved it – but be warned you must have an appetite to attempt to finish it off . Disappointments were: the music in the background – it did nothing for the ambiance, staff uniforms aren’t much fun compared to other European Beer cafes. They could do a lot better if they added a bit more fun to the experience.

May 20, 2011