Vivaz Restaurant & Nightclub

1.3 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  2      Service  1      Value  1     

Bought $59 seafood platter voucher from Scoopon to come here. It was basically fish and chips. The pictures and descriptions on Scoopon were extremely misleading. A complete waste of money as a fish and chips shop can serve this platter up for around $30.

Do not recommend this place at all.

May 04, 2012 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  8     

New years eve 2012 was great. Excellent service by bar staff. The owner was paying personal attention and the chef was very passionate about the good food served out.

Jan 11, 2012 

5 Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  5     

Came here with a group of friends a few months ago. We had a voucher which included a buffet meal and salsa class. I found the food surprisingly ok. I wasn't expecting much from this place so maybe that's why. Overall, nothing great but nothing too bad. I'm glad I came here with a voucher as I wouldn't want to pay full price for what I ate as I don't think it would be worth it.

Nov 08, 2011 

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

I was visiting Sydney from Melbourne. I thought only in Melbourne we could find a place like this. Food was good quality and service excellent. The music was an added bonus for my wife and I. Well done!

Jul 11, 2011 

2.8 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  8      Value  1     

I went here on friday night. I was kind of celebrating a special occasion, but this place ruined it. I was planning on having dinner, them go out for some drinks, but after going to this place I was so upset that I did not feel like doing anything. I felt rip off.

The food was horrible, and we had to queue like for 15 minutes just to get a piece of the horrible meat they were serving. It was like having dinner in a homeless community shelter Do Not Go Here, is just horrible, just of thinking of what I had to eat there makes me sick. Like even the desserts, how can u go wrong with fruits? they must have bought the worst quality fruit because even that tasted horrible.

Jun 08, 2011 

7.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  9     

We purchased vouchers for the 7:30 seating and were not disappointed. It's a warehouse sort of setting which was a nice change of pace and from one window we saw sails of the Opera House and from the other we saw part of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Food is served buffet style and had a nice choice of salads with delicious meats and you can go back as much as you want.

May 29, 2011 

2.8 Not Recommended

Food  3      Ambience  2      Service  4      Value  2     

Even for a $19 Ouffer voucher the food was disappointing. The only good thing was the pork crackling was cooked beautifully. Had to wait an hour to be seated because the food wasn't ready. Give this place a miss. Advice for management: Only open your doors when the food is ready.

May 15, 2011 

2.5 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  2      Service  4      Value  2     

This place is terrible! Talk about cheap and nasty, this place has it all. The decor is extremely outdated, staff seemed inexperienced and lazy and the buffet style food was bland and boring, reminded me of RSL style food (but worst). The drinks were also ridiculously overpriced, don't bother ordering the jug of sangria, completely watered down and a complete waste of money. If you don't mind queuing up for your food, buffet styles then this place is for you!

Apr 26, 2011 

4.3 Below Average

Food  6      Ambience  3      Service  3      Value  5     

Wow, this night was an absolute scream! We booked the Valentines Day dinner deal for $49, which included a glass of bubbly each, and a $20 voucher for our next visit. We arrive, and are ushered to our table by our diva-ish host. We get our bubbly, polish it off, and wait. A long time. We sit with our drinks menu a-flappin after our bubbly is well & truly drained. Eventually, we order our wine, wait an eternity for it, once it arrives we then attend to the buffet to get our 'salads'. Given the cuisine, no rice, not sure why? On offer is tuna pasta salad, tomato salad, grilled eggplant and grilled mild chillis. People all around us are blowing up about the slow service, or lack of. The head honcho sporadically starts to come around with offerings on skewers such as chicken wings, then chorizos (too dry). Then on plates, pre-carved, the most wonderfully salty, tasty moist pork with sensational crackling, and over-cooked beef. The beef has been on our plate for 15 minutes, pushed aside due to its dryness, then the guy with the bowl of sauce saunters around. There's some fish too, which came around twice. We're the lucky ones, we have a table close to the kitchen, so we get the first digs on offer. People continue to blow up around as, as now they do not have their drinks, and not alot of food. We start to feel a little embarrassed as the table next to us are told by the drink waiter serving us all night that they need to go to the bar to get their drinks! And then, people started having their plates removed! We were fine, we had had more than enough, but the blowing up around us continued. If it wasn't for the pork, we would have rated the food a 4, but the pork was superb. The rest of our experience was pretty dodgy, right down to the not-quite-right leering Latina porno-disco assaulting us via the wall mounted TV screens. Our empty bubbly glasses sit in front of us the whole of the night. Don't think we'll be visiting again to utilise our bonus voucher.

Feb 15, 2011 

1.3 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  2      Service  1      Value  1     

Please don't waste your time and hard earned money in this place. We went there with a few friends to celebrate a business win and were up for a celebration, we really wanted to have a good time. Firstly we had to wait what seemed an eternity before being shown to our table. The entrance didn't look that great and what awaited inside was even worse: Tatty, outdated decor, the place looked old and unkempt and the tables and chairs seemed like something out of an army messhall.

A girl in a table adjacent to ours was saying she found a bug in her food which didn't fill us with much enthusiasm for the buffet, which had a pretty long line and seemed fairly disorganised. The food was quite simply aweful, nothing Spanish or Latin about it at all, we didn't go for seconds. Had to wait 15 minutes or longer to get served at the bar and the cocktails with 'exotic' names like 'capirinha', 'pisco sour', 'margarita etc. All tasted the same, watery, bland and way too expensive for what you got.

The Sangria was Ok but again too expensive for the actual quality which seemed to be cheap plonk with lemonade mixed in. I found the general service/staff to be quite poor and very unprofessional. We were ignored so many times at the bar that we finally gave up and went somewhere else. The only saving grace was the DJ who was pretty good, though the sound and lighting were not. Wouldn't go back to this place.

Dec 01, 2010