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User Reviews on Young Alfred
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Food 8 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 5 |
Value 5 |
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Have been here a few times now for work lunches. The pizza is amazing. Other dishes I've had (like the swordfish and the gnocchi) are nothing special so I would recommend sticking with the pizza. Service is not great but not terrible. Not much ambience inside.
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melloh -
See my reviews 31 , 20 May 2009
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Recommended |
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Food 8 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 8 |
Value 8 |
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A friend and I had dinner here last week, on a Wednesday night. He had been before and recommended the pizza, which we both had, the one with jambon, mushrooms and tapenade. It was very good and quick to arrive also, which I hear is sometimes a problem at lunch. A curious thing, the bathrooms are behind the bar and are strangely labelled, making it easy to choose the wrong door! Overall, this is a great place to eat in the Quay district, definitely a better option than the tourist haven City Extra.
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CocoProvence -
See my reviews 26, 28 February 2009
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Below Average |
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Food 5 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 1 |
Value 1 |
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It took so long to get our drinks that we didn't bother to try waiting for food and went elsewhere. OK, it was a couple of days before Christmas but that doesn't excuse rudeness or deciding to straighten bottles rather than bring our drinks. Saving grace was that when our drinks finally did arrive, they were free.
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paul&nat -
See my reviews 3, 21 January 2009
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Highly Recommended |
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Food 10 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 8 |
Value 9 |
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Really buzzy, good prices for this part of town. Sat out on the balcony and had a divine roast summer tomato risotto. My companion seemed pretty happy with his pizza (didn't want to give me any...) Good value wine list but a little too short.
I found the service fast, meals arrived very quickly which is what you want at lunchtime in the city. Staff were obviously run off their feet but managed well considering. A couple of big tables inside made the balcony the better option - but after all it is Christmas and big tables are everywhere.
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todi -
See my reviews 29, 20 December 2008
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Average |
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Food 5 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 2 |
Value 4 |
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Having eaten both indoors and outdoors here, highly recommend the outdoors if you want to have any sort of conversation, but inside if you intend not to talk to your dining companion.
Service is unfortunately dreadful (this on a quiet early Sunday night too). It's not from lack of effort or trying, I just don't think these waiters are trained or have a clue about hospitality which is such a shame because it could be such a great city restaurant.
Ordered a prawn risotto, roast duck linguine and a rocket salad from one waiter. Got another table's drink order while waiting. Another waiter brought to the table the risotto, a ravioli and a spinach salad - all of which went back to the kitchen. Another 10 minute wait brought out the risotto, linguine and likely the same spinach salad which I was then told was a mixture of rocket and spinach. The risotto was quite good, with some bite, well-flavoured with the taste of seafood and an abundance of prawns. The linguine looked a little like a soup dish, and had an addition of rather bland roast duck and tomatoes - fellow diner was suitably unimpressed.
To top it all off I found about two leaves of rocket in the salad and an amazingly tasteless parmesan on top in the saltiest dressing I've ever tasted. I really should have sent it back, but was rather keen to leave and not return again.
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purple_passion -
See my reviews 40, 14 December 2008
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Food 4 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 6 |
Value 4 |
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I had good expectations of this place, however, the food just doesn't cut it. Fairly standard prices for the area with mains around $22 - 28 on their lunch menu but the portions? Small.
I was pretty hungry when I left and while the food tasted fairly good, you tend to feel a little bit let down when you see 4 tiny mussels and a couple of small octopus legs in a seafood pasta dish you paid $24 for.
The staff were varied, a few seemed only too happy to help but the waitress serving our table was very rude on a couple of occasions. Won't bother going back.
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Lonx -
See my reviews 6, 10 December 2008
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Not Recommended |
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Food 2 |
Ambience 1 |
Service 2 |
Value 1 |
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Way overpriced! Very small portions. Order the rump for $25+ and you get nothing with it. Atomosphere of a construction site.
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freddy1 -
See my reviews 1, 16 June 2008
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Not Recommended |
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Food 3 |
Ambience 3 |
Service 2 |
Value 2 |
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Went to Young Alfred for the first time for lunch. After reading the reviews I have to agree wholeheartedly with the comments about the wait staff. After waiting 20 minutes for a bottle of water while everyone else had their beers and wines.
We ordered bruschetta and it was very tasty served on the individual bowls, a little too much artistic flare with the swirls of balsamic and olive oil for my liking, but for $5.90 for one piece I did expect something special. My colleague ordered the squid salad with puy lentils and that looked tasty. I ordered the seafood spaghetti and there were 3 mussels and at the most 6 pieces of calamari throughout the dish. At $21.90, not good value for money. My colleague had the steak and it came out overcooked.
The surrounding of Customs House is nice and it's quite nice to see people soaking up the history, but you can't get past the fact that you're sitting in a common area of a building, paying exorbitant prices for average food.
Overall not bad, but the wait staff do not have the capability of coping with a lunch service. Staff seem to stick with what they know and when one staff says they don't take orders, they just bring the drinks, it makes you wonder what they're doing taking up space on the staff roster. If you can bring a drink to a table, surely you can take an order for another? Or am I asking for too much?
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barulia -
See my reviews 21, 20 March 2008
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Below Average |
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Food 4 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 3 |
Value 1 |
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Just had a work lunch for a colleague's farewell, decided to opt for the barramundi, fish was cooked nicely but a ridiculously small portion < 200g?. 4 other colleagues required to get another lunch because they had the "seafood" spagehetti in which the shells of mussels took up most of the room in bowl and were left unsatisfied ( 2 females included in this total ).
Had a female waiter which did not attend to us. When taking orders made us repeat what we had said twice on several occasions, the worst part was we were slapped a 10% surcharge for a 10+ booking making an already expensive lunch even more dear. Pizzas were average, hardly worth the tooting.
There are much better establishments in the CBD for lunch, will definitely not come back.
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fangske -
See my reviews 2, 17 March 2008
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Below Average |
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Food 5 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 2 |
Value 4 |
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Seriously poor service which is the only reason I'm writing the review. Do yourself a favour and get some trained wait staff. Seriously!!!
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jgingell -
See my reviews 2, 12 March 2008
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